Project Manager

BDL; Gartree; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday plus bank holidays

Private Healthcare

Car Allowance

Company Pension

Volunteering Days

Health Care Cashplan

Cycle to work scheme

Car Leasing Scheme

Discounted Gym Membership

Life Assurance

Job summary

Carey Group is recruiting an experienced Project Manager for a major heavy civils project at Gartree. You will lead delivery from planning through construction, commissioning to handover, ensuring safety, quality and environmental compliance while coordinating multi-disciplinary teams.

You will drive programme performance, manage stakeholders, and shape the commercial strategy, reporting progress and risk against milestones in a complex, onsite environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing major civils, energy or infrastructure projects
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and drive programme delivery
• Experience with design governance, BIM compliance and client requirements
• Strong planning, governance and risk management abilities
• Proven track record in commercial strategy, variations and cost forecasting
• Demonstrated safety leadership and continuous improvement mindset

Responsibilities

• Lead project-wide quality, safety, and environmental strategy and improvements
• Provide technical authority and oversee temporary and permanent works
• Manage design governance and BIM compliance across the project
• Oversee strategic logistics, multi-site access, deliveries and interfaces
• Direct procurement strategies and supplier management to maintain programme
• Own the master programme and lead recovery planning and reporting
• Shape the commercial strategy and support cost forecasting and risk mitigation
• Inspire the project team with clear roles, accountability and performance
• Build strong client and stakeholder relationships through structured meetings
• Foster a proactive, collaborative safety-first culture across the project

Skills

Leadership under pressure

Commercial awareness

Stakeholder communication

Technical knowledge

Strategic planning

Integrity

Team leadership

Education

HNC/HND or Degree in Civil Engineering

Temporary Works Coordinator (TWC) certificate

MICE / AMICE / IEng

PRINCE2 or APM PMQ

MSc in Civil Engineering or Construction PM

Job description

We’re seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the successful delivery of a major Heavy Civils project. This is a pivotal role responsible for overseeing all aspects of project execution, from planning and engineering coordination through to construction, commissioning, and handover.

As Project Manager, you will take ownership of project delivery, ensuring the highest standards of health, safety, quality, environmental compliance, and operational excellence are achieved. You will lead multidisciplinary teams, manage key stakeholder relationships, drive programme and commercial performance, and provide strategic direction across all phases of the project.

Working within a complex and challenging heavy civils environment, you will ensure projects are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards, while fostering collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement across the project team.

Department Operations Management (Site/Project/Regional) Employment Type Permanent - Full Time Location Gartree Workplace type Onsite

What You Will Be Doing:

• Lead project-wide quality, safety, and environmental strategy, ensuring high standards and continuous improvement.
• Provide technical authority, resolving complex engineering issues and overseeing temporary and permanent works.
• Manage design governance, ensuring timely information flow, buildability, and compliance with BIM and client requirements.
• Oversee strategic logistics planning, coordinating multi-site access, deliveries, and supply chain interfaces.
• Direct procurement and materials strategies, working closely with key suppliers to maintain programme and quality.
• Own the master programme, lead recovery planning, and report progress and risk against key milestones.
• Shape and support the commercial strategy, contributing to variations, claims, cost forecasting, and risk mitigation.
• Lead and inspire the project team, ensuring clarity of roles, accountability, and performance — including Section 106/social value commitments (apprenticeships, work placements & local employment).
• Build strong client and stakeholder relationships, chairing structured meetings and ensuring successful delivery outcomes.
• Drive a proactive, collaborative, and safety‑first culture, influencing behaviours across the entire project.

What You Will Bring:

• Decisive and confident leadership under pressure
• Strong commercial awareness and understanding of project cost drivers
• Excellent communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
• Deep technical knowledge and the ability to challenge engineering solutions
• Strategic mindset with strong planning and governance skills
• High personal integrity, resilience, and a drive for performance excellence
• Passion for building collaborative, empowered project teams

Essential:

• Black CSCS Card
• SMSTS
• IOSH Managing Safely
• HNC/HND or Degree in Civil Engineering
• Temporary Works Coordinator (TWC) certificate
• Significant experience managing major civils, energy or infrastructure projects

Desirable:

• MICE / AMICE / IEng
• PRINCE2 or APM PMQ
• MSc in Civil Engineering or Construction PM

Benefits:

• 26 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Private Healthcare
• Car Allowance
• Company Pension
• Volunteering Days - With Careys Foundation - or other organisations that are important to you
• Health Care Cashplan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Car Leasing Scheme
• Discounted Gym Membership
• Life Assurance
• Buy/sell holidays
• Other discounts and Cashback plans

About Carey Group

Our story starts in 1969 with three brothers and a van.

John, Tom and Pat Carey moved to London from Ireland and started a groundworks contracting company in London called PJ Carey Plant Hire (Oval) Ltd.

Their aspirations at the time were reflective of the values of the Carey Group today – to care about everything they did, to act with humility in all interactions, to be passionate about their work and be authentic at all times.

The Carey Group remains a family-owned construction business, operating across the UK and Ireland. Their goal at the time was to grow to around 50 operatives and provide quality, safe work so that they and their employees could provide for their families and get safe home every day. Through hard work and sticking to their values and their word, this was certainly achieved….and some.

Throughout the years, we have remained committed to delivering on our promises, respecting our clients, offering innovative solutions and producing the highest-quality work in safe environments. These are the core principles set by our Founders, the ones we have never wavered from and they help us to fulfil our ultimate vision to be the most trusted and socially responsible construction company, that people are proud to work with.

Our strong approach is underpinned by robust financial management, continuous investment in our people, specialist equipment and strategic assets and our long-standing culture of teamwork – we want to create the very best environments for our people.

We care about our people and our partners and how we work with them, ensuring we do our best by them. Ultimately, we care about our impact on the world around us and the communities that we proudly help to shape.

Department Operations Management (Site/Project/Regional) Employment Type Permanent - Full Time Location Gartree Workplace type Onsite