Autonomy Project Lead – AI-Driven Buildings

Janus Digital; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Janus Digital is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager based in London to turn our AI vision into autonomous, real estate operations. You’ll own financial performance, technical scope, regulatory compliance and risk from initiation through to autonomous operation, bridging engineering with probabilistic AI.

You will coordinate multi-site builds, manage P&L, oversee MEP and BMS integrations, ensure UK regulations including Building Safety Act 2022, ISO 19650 and UK GDPR are met, and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience within a Building Management Systems, MEP or construction/technology delivery environment.
• Project Management certification — PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent.
• Proven ownership of project P&L: costing, risk and profit-and-loss accountability.
• Exceptional leadership, negotiation and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to stay decisive under high-pressure, on-site conditions.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Right to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Own the full project lifecycle — initiation through closing — with total accountability for P&L, margin and revenue realisation.
• Define the Work Breakdown Structure for complex building automation and legacy-system integration projects, and manage delivery across multiple concurrent sites.
• Oversee installation of IoT devices, gateways and BMS integrations, coordinating MEP reviews to identify infrastructure limitations before deployment.
• Manage the transition from supervised AI operation to reliable autonomy, working with AgentOps engineers on telemetry, monitoring and escalation design.
• Identify and mitigate cyber-physical risk, and manage project change requests against budget, timeline and compliance.
• Ensure delivery meets the UK regulatory landscape (BREEAM, the Building Safety Act 2022, ISO 19650, UK GDPR) in partnership with specialist teams.
• Coordinate Solution Architects, Delivery Engineers and AI/ML teams to unify physical, digital and regulatory workstreams.
• Train the trainer: Project manager should have experience in training people. Creating training programmes and delivering training.
• Act as primary client contact through UAT and a zero-gap handover into autonomous operation, and mentor Project Managers and Associate PMs across the Global Delivery team.

Skills

Project management

PMP/PRINCE2

P&L ownership

Leadership

English fluency

Right to work in UK

Stakeholder management

Tools

BIM

ISO 19650

BACnet

Modbus

KNX

IT/OT security

UK GDPR

Job description

Janus Digital is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager based in London to turn our AI vision into autonomous, real estate operations. You’ll own financial performance, technical scope, regulatory compliance and risk from initiation through to autonomous operation, bridging engineering with probabilistic AI.

You will coordinate multi-site builds, manage P&L, oversee MEP and BMS integrations, ensure UK regulations including Building Safety Act 2022, ISO 19650 and UK GDPR are met, and