Project Manager

SNC-Lavalin; Newbridge; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering services company in the UK is seeking a Project Manager to oversee major railway infrastructure projects. You will lead the project delivery from inception to completion, ensuring compliance with industry standards and client specifications. With experience in the Rail sector, you will motivate a team and develop strong client relationships while managing project risks and opportunities. This role offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits and a supportive, inclusive culture.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Employee rewards

Flexible working arrangements

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Several years of infrastructure delivery experience in a consultancy.
• Experience in the Rail sector and leading design teams with significant fees.
• Understanding of design delivery and change control.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects from feasibility to detailed design, ensuring quality standards.
• Build and develop a project team.
• Monitor project progress against key targets.

Skills

Infrastructure delivery experience

Project/Engineering Management

Client engagement

Team leadership

Risk management

Understanding of NEC contracts

Education

Professional membership (MAPM, MICE, PMQ)

Job description

Job Description

Be trusted to make great things happen.

Are you ready to take up a vital role in shaping some of our exciting projects? Join our supportive and inclusive team at AtkinsRéalis where your ideas matter, collaboration drives success, and our world‑class talent work together to face our clients' problems head‑on. Our Transportation Project Delivery Practice (PDP) leads the delivery of our major projects across Rail and Transit, Highways, and Local Transport markets. We have a wide client base including HS2, National Highways, Network Rail, Irish Rail, Local Authorities, as well as several Principal Contractors. We also lean out to support complex projects in other sectors such as Defence and Nuclear.

To help deliver our growing portfolio of railway infrastructure projects, we’re looking for a Project Manager to join our team. This is a great opportunity to take ownership of projects from start to finish and grow your career in a dynamic environment.

Your role

• Project Delivery: Lead projects from feasibility and optioneering through to detailed design, ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and to quality standards.
• Team Leadership: Building, motivating, maintaining, coaching, guiding, and developing the team.
• Planning & Coordination: Work with resource managers to plan ahead and ensure the right skills are available. Align teams on scope, timelines, costs, risks, and interfaces.
• Performance Monitoring: Track and report project progress against key targets including programme, quality, financials, and KPIs.
• Governance & Commercial: Ensure compliance with company, client, and industry standards. Manage risks, opportunities, and contract changes throughout the project lifecycle.
• Client Engagement: Act as the main point of contact for clients, building strong relationships and identifying opportunities for future work.
• Win Work: Act as Bid Manager on selective pursuits, working with our Market teams to secure new projects.
• Community Contribution: Share best practices, mentor junior staff, and contribute to the wider project management community.

About you

• You are likely to have several years of infrastructure delivery experience, ideally from within a consultancy environment.
• Project/Engineering Management background with experience within the Rail sector (eg. Network Rail and/or HS2 and Principal Contractors). Experience in the delivery of railway station projects will be a plus.
• Experience of leading multi-disciplinary design teams (>£1m design fees).
• Understanding of design delivery, assurance, and change control.
• Ability to work constructively and collaboratively with clients and internal teams to ensure project objectives are met.
• Understands and has experience in deploying various forms of contract (eg. NEC).
• Professional membership and recognised level of Project Management competence (eg. MAPM, MICE, PMQ, or equivalent) – desirable.

Reward & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world‑class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We’re committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

Additional information

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong – a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.

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Worker Type: Employee

Job Type: Regular

At AtkinsRéalis , we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world‑class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.