Senior Project Manager

Heathrow Airport Limited; Hounslow; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Private health insurance

Pension scheme

Job summary

Heathrow Airport Limited is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead high-value infrastructure programmes across terminals and airfield. You will shape requirements, develop scope and robust business cases, while guiding a multi-disciplinary team in a live operations environment.

You’ll collaborate with senior leaders to deliver strategies, manage governance, and ensure CDM duties, with a focus on safety, value for money and stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• Experience managing infrastructure projects across the full lifecycle, including business case development, design, contract management, team leadership, financial control, and health, safety, quality and environmental management.
• Proven ability to autonomously lead, manage and develop diverse teams on large infrastructure programmes.
• Strong experience in project controls, forecasting, earned value and cost outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Deliver complex infrastructure projects end-to-end within cost, schedule, scope and quality targets.
• Progress projects through governance gateways per Heathrow Gateway Lifecycle with robust documentation.
• Develop and manage end-to-end project plans, align deliverables, and coordinate multidisciplinary teams.
• Collaborate to improve delivery practices, share learning, and build stakeholder relationships for approvals.
• Oversee project controls, procurement activities and supplier performance to required standards.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Project leadership

Contract management

P6 scheduling

Cost budgeting

Health & safety

NEC contracts

APM qualification pursuit

Team development

Education

Degree in relevant discipline

APM CPP pursuit

NEC accreditation

APM PMQ experience

Job description

Together,we’reworking to welcome millions more passengers,while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability.At Heathrow, youcan be part ofthis –providingsolutions that make every journey better for millions each year.That means ensuring we meet the changing needs ofthe passengers, colleagues and partnerswho use our airportto work, travel, trade,shop, eat,exploreand connect.Our Solutionsteamcoversproject management,process improvement,business change,technology, cyberdefence,masterplanning, infrastructureand procurement. Itbrings togetherpeople with the skillsto deliverprestigious andoften large-scale projects,fromtransforming terminalstomakingbig reductions inour carbon emissions.

Every day will test your skills and give you the opportunity to make your mark.You might be working with the technology and datathatpowerourcity within a city,drivingvitalcommercial agreements with everyone from retailers to airlines,or improving theunique infrastructurethat includeseverything from 200 buildings to250 HV substations.It’sa collaborative environment, where you can rely on the support of the expertsaround youas you take onprojectsyou’llbothtake pride in and feel passionate about.

Job Info

• Job Identification 5405
• Job Category Project Management
• Job Schedule Full time
• Locations Heathrow Airport Limited, Hounslow, Middlesex, TW6 2GW, GB
• Contract Type Permanent
• Working Pattern Monday-Friday Business hours

Job Description

As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead some of Heathrow’s most complex and high‑value projects. You will work closely with stakeholders to shape requirements, develop scope and design, and produce robust business cases. You will also oversee the safe and efficient delivery of construction activity across our Terminals and Airfield, working in partnership with contractors in a live operational environment.

The role will involve working in partnership with senior leaders across the organisation, helping to shape strategies and delivery plans that enable the successful implementation of solutions. You will have responsibility for a multi‑disciplinary project team, providing coaching, development, and mentorship.

Principal Accountabilities

• Delivering complex infrastructure projects end‑to‑end, from requirements through to commissioning and handover, meeting agreed cost, schedule, scope, and quality targets.
• Progressing projects through governance gateways in line with the Heathrow Gateway Lifecycle, ensuring robust documentation.
• Developing and manage end‑to‑end project plans, setting clear objectives, deliverables, and value‑for‑money outcomes, and coordinating multidisciplinary teams to deliver an integrated solution.
• Collaborating with peers to improve delivery practices, share learning, and support junior development, while building strong stakeholder relationships to understand needs, secure decisions, and gain approvals.
• Overseeing project controls and commercial performance, including cost, schedule, risk, change management, reporting, procurement activities and contractor performance.
• Manage supply chain contracts and performance, including procurement activities, commercial administration, contractor oversight and assurance that suppliers deliver to the required standards.
• Leading and taking accountability for team health, safety, and wellbeing, and ensuringConstruction Design and Management Regulations (CDM) duties are met across all activities.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Experience managing infrastructure projects across the full lifecycle, including business case development, design, contract management, team leadership, financial control, and health, safety, quality, and environmental management.
• Proven experience in autonomously leading, managing and developing diverse teams on large Infrastructure projects or programmes
• Proven experience in all aspects of project controls, providing confidence in forecasting, earned value performance, programme reliability, and projected outturn costs.
• Excellent communication, coordination, and stakeholder management skills. Ability to work effectively across multicultural and multidisciplinary teams.
• Project planning and developing schedules from first principles; reviewing and interrogating contractor schedules and familiarity with P6.
• Experiencewithcontracts (ideally NEC) and supply chain performancemanagement, supported by strong commercial acumen and experience within a contractual environment
• Professional affiliation, qualification or near qualified status with the APM or similar professional institution.

Ideally you will have

• Degree qualification in an appropriate discipline, or equivalent academic achievement.
• Working towards APM Chartered Project Professional (CPP), Achieved APM PMQ or equivalent.
• Achieved NEC accreditation.

About us

There’s something so special about working at the world’s most iconic airport. Its sights. Its sounds. Its constant air of excitement. Heathrow is an amazing backdrop to a career filled with unique opportunities.

Every day, you’ll discover a world full of fresh possibilities and end the day buzzing with stories to tell, as you encounter people from all cultures, nationalities and experiences. A world full of pride for what we do and no end of exciting career prospects to explore.

It brings out the best in all of us. And inspires everyone to deliver on our ambitious plans. Together, we’re working to welcome millions more passengers while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability.

Join us on that journey and we'll help you achieve your ambitions too. Supporting you to learn, encouraging you to be yourself, backing you to achieve more than you might ever have imagined. Because there’s no place like Heathrow.

Our rewards

We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. As well as performance-based annual bonuses and our longer-term Share in Success Bonus plans, we also offer generous annual leave allowances and market-leading pensions. With family friendly policies, access to private health insurance and a wide range of wellbeing tools, we’ll support you to be at your best inside and outside work. And of course, we’ll provide varied learning and development opportunities too. Here you’ll find everything you need for a fulfilling career journey that can take you in exciting directions.

Working Location

Our Hybrid working approach offers the opportunity for colleagues in some roles to work from home for an average of two days a week, providing the flexibility to work in an agile way whilst ensuring we deliver for the operational needs of Heathrow . Working arrangements vary from team to team and will be confirmed during the recruitment process. You’ll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger – not least because we welcome passengers from all corners of the globe, every single day. Heathrow is an accessible place to work. With five diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.