Senior Project Manager - Electrical

Skanska UK Plc; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction firm is seeking a Senior Project Manager - MEP to oversee large scale multi-disciplinary projects in Cambridge. You will lead day-to-day operations, ensuring compliance with design and engineering processes while managing commercial and contractual aspects. The ideal candidate has a proven track record in delivering large scale projects with a value of around £25M, along with the necessary health and safety training. This role embraces diversity and offers opportunities for all backgrounds.

Qualifications

• Experience managing large commercial projects with a value of circa £25M.
• Proven track record in delivering large scale MEP contracts.
• Ability to manage multiple disciplines and work sequencing.

Responsibilities

• Lead operational management on large scale multi-disciplinary projects.
• Ensure compliance in design, engineering, and construction processes.
• Control commercial and contractual aspects applicable to the project.

Skills

Commercial management

Project management

Leadership

Contract management

Risk management

Health and Safety compliance

Education

Formal H&S training accreditations, minimum SMSTS

Job description

Skanska, one of the world’s leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager - MEP to join our Building Services Team located in Cambridge. Reporting to the Operations Manager or Project Director responsible for the project, effectively and professionally lead the day-to-day operational management on large scale multi-disciplinary commercial projects to include, design, procurement, installation, logistics, compliance, commissioning, and project handover, within the Skanska JV building construction team. Whilst ensuring the delivery to time, commercial performance, governance, and Skanska values are met during all phases of the project’s delivery to the satisfaction of the client.

You’ll:

• Ensures full compliance of design, engineering, construction, and commissioning processes.
• Add value to the design process by challenging solutions, methods, and techniques where appropriate to deliver works within the contract programme, improve build ability and reduce whole life costs.
• Develop and administer controls on the project or workplace and ensures full implementation and compliance.
• Leads lessons learnt and collates for future projects.
• Understand/ develop/ scrutinise/ deliver/ monitor end to end programme. Set milestones and key deliverables. Lead the implementation of overall project plan. Responsible for creating Plan B.
• Active control of commercial and contractual aspects applicable to project. Input and ability to scrutinise financial forecasting and CVR. Create and manage profit improvement plans for the project.
• Experience managing project teams working on large commercial schemes in London and in the surrounding areas, with combined package responsibility value of circa £25M.
• Appropriate knowledge and experience to manage multiple disciplines/interfaces and work sequencing.
• Proven track record in successfully delivering large scale MEP contracts to time and within commercial constraints.
• Formal H&S training accreditations, minimum SMSTS

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high‑performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using [e-mail] if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More information about the role

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us: [e-mail]

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.

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