Senior Project Manager

Kier Group; Woking; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Group is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead construction and improvement works at Wisley Sewage Treatment Works, Wisley. This on-site role demands strong leadership, safety culture, and delivery against programme and budget targets.

You will manage multiple live assets, foster client relations and guide a multidisciplinary team to maintain environmental compliance and public safety.

Qualifications

• Significant senior management experience within wastewater, utilities, or complex infrastructure construction.
• Proven track record delivering works in live operational environments.
• Strong commitment to safety leadership, behavioural safety, and positive site culture.
• Experience working under NEC contracts and regulated client frameworks.
• Passion for wellbeing, mental health, and work-life balance across teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide visible leadership across construction and engineering activities, aligning with Kier's values.
• Lead planning, coordination and delivery of capital and maintenance works to programme, cost, quality and performance targets.
• Champion a zero-harm culture and manage high-risk activities including confined spaces and lifting operations.
• Build trusted relationships with clients, site operations teams, regulators and alliance partners.
• Lead, mentor and develop a multidisciplinary management team in an inclusive environment.

Skills

Leadership

Safety leadership

Stakeholder management

People development

Tools

NEC contracts

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our Wisley Sewage Treatment Works team based in Wisley.

Location:

Wisley

Hours:

45 per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

As Senior Project Manager, you'll be responsible for the safe, compliant, and efficient delivery of construction and improvement works at Wisley Sewage Treatment Works. This role offers the opportunity to provide senior operational leadership across multiple live assets and projects within a highly regulated wastewater environment, ensuring that works are delivered without compromising treatment operations, environmental compliance, or public safety.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Project Manager, You'll Be Working Within The Wisley Sewage Treatment Works Team, Supporting Them In Delivering Construction And Improvement Works Safely And Efficiently. Your Day To Day Will Include

• Providing visible leadership across all construction and engineering activities, consistently demonstrating Kier's values in decision-making and communication
• Leading the planning, coordination, and delivery of capital and maintenance works to programme, cost, quality, and performance targets
• Championing a zero-harm culture and ensuring robust management of high-risk activities including confined spaces and lifting operations
• Building trusted relationships with clients, site operations teams, regulators, and alliance partners through honest communication and consistent delivery
• Leading, mentoring, and developing a multidisciplinary management team while fostering an inclusive, respectful working environment

What are we looking for?

• You have significant senior management experience within wastewater, utilities, or complex infrastructure construction
• You have a proven track record of delivering works in live operational environments
• You demonstrate a strong commitment to safety leadership, behavioural safety, and positive site culture
• You have experience working under NEC contracts and regulated client frameworks
• You're passionate about fostering wellbeing, mental health, and work-life balance across teams

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box,

Rewards And Benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.