Project Manager

-; Wellingborough; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A construction company based in Wellingborough is seeking a Project Manager to support the contracts team on large-scale projects. The role includes budgeting, design management, and team coordination, requiring strong skills in resource planning and stakeholder engagement. Exceptional benefits such as professional development and health support are included. Closing date for applications is 05/12/2025.

Benefits

Career and professional development

23 days holiday plus bank holidays

Life assurance

Healthcare

Company bonus

Enhanced maternity pay

Access to shopping discounts

Health and well-being benefits

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in delivering large-scale civil engineering projects.
• Full UK driving licence is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide budget and programming information at key project stages.
• Manage and ensure buildability of designs.
• Coordinate with the project team for permits and approvals.

Skills

Resource planning

Cost management

Stakeholder engagement

Design management

Education

Degree-level qualification or NVQ Level 6, HNC, HND

Job description

Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

FM Conway is currently seeking a Project Manager to join our successful Structures division. You will be working on an exciting project expanding our Aggregate and Asphalt division's portfolio and building our eighth Asphalt Plant in Wellingborough. As a Project Manager you'll be providing support to the contracts team, putting together PQQs and advising on buildability, health and safety documentation and preparation of the works programme. This is a 12‑18 month fixed‑term contract, based full‑time at our Wellingborough site.

The duties of the Project Manager role will include:

• Providing up to date budget and programming information at all project key stages
• Managing, coordinating, reviewing and ensuring buildability of designs
• Ensuring that the project is set up correctly with the appropriate resources allocated for the works i.e. plant, labour, materials and subcontractors, and ensuring works are maintained in accordance with the Structures Works package
• Managing and coordinating with the project team ensuring all relevant applications, permits and approvals are in place and maintained throughout the works duration
• Reviewing and ensuring compliance with subcontractor pre‑start meetings, minutes and documentation prior to commencement on site
• Drafting, coordinating and reviewing subcontract contract documents with the project Quantity Surveyor and internal commercial/contract team

What skills and experience do you need?

We are seeking a driven and skilled Project Manager with proven expertise in successfully delivering large‑scale civil engineering, mechanical, and industrial/plant projects. You'll bring exceptional skills in resource planning, cost and value management, stakeholder engagement, and design management. To excel in this role, you'll need to hold a degree‑level qualification or equivalent, such as NVQ Level 6, HNC, or HND in a construction‑related field. A full UK driving licence is also essential.

What benefits will you receive?

As our Project Manager, we will offer you a range of fantastic benefits including career and professional development, 23 days holiday plus bank holidays, life assurance, healthcare, a company bonus, enhanced maternity pay, opportunities for internal and external training and access to a wide range of shopping discounts through our Rewarding Great People platform. We will also offer you a range of health and well‑being benefits including 24‑hour advice lines, and support from our in‑house mental health first aiders.

A brief introduction to FM Conway and our Structures Division

FM Conway is a business of families with over 60 years' experience of creating sustainable and innovative transportation solutions. We pride ourselves on our core values, creating a culture around Care, Innovation, Integrity and Excellence. As a family business the heart of FM Conway has, and always will be, its great people and we are always searching for talented individuals to join our family.

FM Conway works across the full spectrum of London and the South East's highways structures and broader infrastructure needs. We have a strong track record of delivering refurbishments and improvements, heritage maintenance and structural repairs. We have worked on a range of iconic and impressive projects including Hammersmith Bridge, Waterloo Bridge, Rochester Bridge, Southwark Bridge, Greenford Flyover and the Marble Arch Still Water Illumination project. FM Conway provide our clients and stakeholders with a full range of structural engineering services, utilising innovative and sustainable solutions to maximise value and ensure the successful delivery of projects to the highest quality design.

So if you would like to Join our Family as our Project Manager then please click 'apply' today.

Closing Date: 05/12/2025

FM Conway is an award‑winning equal opportunities employer. We recognise that our workforce should reflect our diverse communities and we are proudly committed to creating an inclusive culture in which we celebrate and value individuals from all walks of life. EDI-Strategy

At our heart we are a family that recognises and embraces individuality, so if you are excited about this role but you are unsure if you meet all of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway as you may still be the right candidate for this or another role we are recruiting for.

We look forward to receiving your application!