Senior Client Project Manager - Infrastructure High Speed

CPR; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CPR is recruiting two Senior Project Managers to sit alongside Project Directors as the High Speed 2 programme progresses towards final delivery and handover. You will keep major civil contracts on track, manage interfaces, and drive the scheme to a clean handover ready for Rail Systems ramping up in the region.

The role requires NEC3 Project Manager duties on the client side, extensive heavy civils experience, and the ability to lead delivery through complex interfaces with Tier 1 and joint

Qualifications

• NEC3 Project Manager duties carried out on client side on major civil schemes.
• Experience closing out large-scale civil programmes and handing over complex schemes.
• Ability to manage cross-functional interfaces, supply chain partners and local stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Administer NEC3 contracts across Tier 1 and JV partners.
• Review, accept and monitor construction programmes and contractor performance.
• Manage and mitigate risks within your scope and coordinate CDM duties.
• Lead delivery through final stages to close-out and handover to Rail Systems.

Skills

NEC3 Project Management

Contract Management

Risk Management

Supply Chain Oversight

Stakeholder Liaison

Job description

Senior Project Manager (Heavy Civils), High Speed 2

This is one of the largest and most complex civil engineering programmes in Europe. Ground has been broken, structures are rising, and parts of the heavy Civils project is moving into its later stages. The work now is about driving it home.

Our client is recruiting two Senior Project Managers to sit alongside Project Directors as the programme moves through final delivery, close-out and handover. Your job is to keep major civil engineering contracts on track across the final stretch, manage the interfaces, hold the supply chain to account, and make sure the scheme lands cleanly, ready for the Rail Systems to start ramping up in the region.

What the role involves

You will carry out the duties of NEC3 Project Manager on behalf of the client, administering contracts through Tier 1 and joint venture supply chain partners. Day to day, you will review and accept construction programmes, monitor contractor performance, manage risk within your scope and support mitigation of wider programme-level risks. You will manage CDM duties as delegated by the Client Representative, coordinate retained third-party works and services, and act as the interface with client functions sitting outside the Integrated Project Team. You will be working across multiple stakeholders, including local stakeholders whose cooperation matters to delivery, and your ability to manage those relationships will be tested regularly.

The later-stage focus of these roles is significant. Experience of closing out large-scale civil programmes, managing the sequencing of works through to completion, and handing over complex schemes is central to what our client needs. You will understand construction methodology and programme at a detailed level, and be able to see around corners when sequencing decisions have downstream consequences.

This is a senior role with real accountability.

What we are looking for

NEC3 Project Manager duties, carried out from the client side, are essential. If you have not held that role in a meaningful way on a major civil engineering scheme, this is not the right fit.

Your background should be in heavy civils. Highways, rail or nuclear are all relevant sectors. You will understand construction sequences and methodology, and you will have managed supply chain partners through complex delivery environments. Local stakeholder management is part of the role, and experience of navigating that well matters.

Experience of programme close-out and scheme handover is a genuine requirement here.

Our client is not looking for is a commercial specialist. The priority is delivery leadership, sequencing expertise and the experience to bring a major scheme to a proper close