Project Integration Manager
Location: UK-wide (with occasional travel to client offices in Warrington)
Type: Full-time, Sector Exposure: Nuclear, Water, Environment, Defence
Join the team that's shaping the UK's infrastructure future. From cutting edge nuclear projects, innovative water and environmental programmes to major transport and energy projects, our work makes a difference.
About the role
We are looking for a Project Integration Manager to support a major first-of-a-kind UK Small Modular Reactor programme, in the Nuclear sector. Working within an integrated client environment, you will help coordinate delivery across functions, contracts and workstreams, bringing structure and momentum to cross-boundary matters.
Supporting the Project Integration Lead and Senior Project Integration Manager, you will manage assigned integration workstreams and turn interfaces, dependencies, assumptions, actions and decisions into clear, tracked priorities. You will bring stakeholders together, maintain visibility of integration matters and support timely escalation when issues require senior attention.
Key responsibilities
- Support the operation and continuous improvement of the project integration capability.
- Manage assigned integration workstreams, interfaces and dependencies across internal teams, enabling functions, Tier 1 contractors and strategic workstreams.
- Identify and progress cross-boundary interfaces, dependencies, assumptions, actions and decisions, ensuring ownership is clear and progress is tracked.
- Coordinate the closure of cross-cutting actions and decisions, confirming accountabilities and escalating blockers where required.
- Maintain clear records of integration issues, risks, opportunities, dependencies, assumptions, actions and decision points.
- Prepare concise integration updates for reporting, governance forums and senior decision-making.
- Support the development and consistent use of integration tools, registers, reporting processes, ways of working and escalation routes.
- Work with Project Controls so that integration inputs, dependencies, assumptions and interface matters are visible in schedules, contractor programme reviews and the Integrated Master Schedule.
- Support gateway reviews, assurance activity and action close-out by coordinating inputs and maintaining visibility of progress.
- Help clarify the scope, ownership, milestones, dependencies, assumptions and decisions required for strategic and enabling workstreams.
- Coordinate stakeholder engagement across project management, risk, commercial, procurement, design management, systems engineering, technical assurance, communications and supplier teams.
- Provide task direction and support to Integration Analysts or Coordinators on assigned activities.
- Promote consistent cross-functional ways of working, lessons learned and continuous improvement.
About you
Essential experience and capabilities
- Experience supporting or managing project delivery, integration, coordination or cross-functional workstreams in a major infrastructure, energy, nuclear, regulated or government environment.
- Good understanding of major project delivery principles, including governance, assurance, dependency management, stakeholder management, risk and issue management, action tracking and performance reporting.
- Ability to manage dependencies across multiple functions, contracts or workstreams and maintain momentum on assigned matters.
- Experience using or supporting delivery frameworks, registers, reporting processes, governance arrangements or cross-functional ways of working.
- Strong stakeholder coordination skills, with the ability to build effective relationships and align competing priorities.
- Ability to identify and progress unresolved assumptions, decisions, interfaces and delivery risks in a structured, evidence-based way.
- Good analytical judgement and the ability to produce clear, practical reporting and stakeholder updates.
- Confidence operating in ambiguity and creating structure, clarity and momentum in a developing project environment.
Desirable experience
- Experience working with Project Controls, commercial, procurement, risk, assurance or technical teams to support integrated delivery.
- Experience coordinating tasks, supporting junior colleagues or directing analysts or coordinators.
- Knowledge of government project delivery frameworks, business cases, assurance gateways or complex project governance.
- Experience in nuclear, major infrastructure, first-of-a-kind projects or complex supplier environments.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent professional experience, in project management, project delivery, engineering, construction management, business, commercial management or a related discipline.
- Professional project delivery or project management qualification, or membership of a relevant body such as APM, PRINCE2, PMI, MSP or equivalent, is desirable.
Right to work in the UK is required
This role is subject to client inter