Project Manager

Venesky Brown; England; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading civil engineering company seeks a Project Manager with extensive experience in enabling works for one of the UK's largest infrastructure projects. The role involves overseeing significant project phases, ensuring compliance with safety, quality, and environmental standards, and managing intricate stakeholder interfaces. Ideal candidates will excel in high-pressure environments and possess strong coordination skills, as well as a relevant engineering degree.

Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience in construction sector, ideally in civils or infrastructure.
• 5+ years in Project Management delivering £10-20m+ packages.
• Experience with permitting and environmental consents.

Responsibilities

• Lead project delivery for enabling and earthworks packages valued up to £50m.
• Coordinate delivery across engineering, procurement, and construction phases.
• Ensure works are delivered in compliance with safety and quality standards.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder Management

Project Coordination

Commercial Awareness

Education

Degree in Civil Engineering or related discipline

Chartered Engineer or Chartered Project Manager

Job description

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Job Title: Project Manager – Enabling and Earthworks

Location: Suffolk (Hybrid working available)

Overview

We are recruiting for a Project Manager with strong enabling and earthworks experience to join our clients Civil Works delivery team on one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure projects. This role will focus on the early-stage enabling works programme, including directional drilling, marine structures, shafts, and associated earthworks.

Reporting to the Senior Project Manager for Enabling & Earthworks, you’ll play a vital role in preparing the site and programme for construction. The successful candidate will drive key readiness processes, including final design approvals, permitting and consents, and ensure packages are set up for successful delivery against cost, schedule, and quality expectations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead project delivery of enabling and earthworks packages (e.g. directional drilling, shafts, marine structures, bulk earthworks), valued at up to £50m.
• Support readiness processes including consents, environmental approvals, and final design assurance.
• Coordinate delivery activities across engineering, procurement, manufacturing, and construction phases.
• Interface with internal stakeholders including consents teams, engineering and design assurance, commercial leads, and site delivery teams.
• Engage with suppliers and contractors to ensure smooth mobilisation and early site execution.
• Ensure all works are delivered in line with safety, quality, and environmental requirements.
• Manage planning and coordination of programme interfaces, including with tunnelling and marine packages.

Required Skills and Experience

• 10+ years’ experience in the construction sector, ideally within civils, enabling works, marine, or infrastructure projects.
• Minimum of 5 years in a Project Management role, delivering complex packages over £10–20m.
• Experience on client side or regulated infrastructure (e.g. rail, water, airports, MOD, nuclear) highly desirable.
• Familiarity with the pre-construction phase, including permitting, environmental consents, and final design coordination.
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to manage packages against time, cost, and quality metrics.
• Good working knowledge of construction processes and associated health, safety and environmental standards.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, able to operate confidently in a matrix organisation.

Qualifications

• Degree in Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, or a related discipline (preferred).
• Chartered Engineer or Chartered Project Manager (or working towards).

What We’re Looking For

• A proactive, delivery-focused PM with strong coordination skills.
• Someone who thrives in fast-paced, early-phase project environments.
• A confident communicator who can work effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
• A hands-on project leader who’s happy to be on site in Suffolk at least 3 days per week.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Project Management

• Industries

  Civil Engineering

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