Senior Project Manager, Marine Systems (East Africa)

SRT Marine Systems plc; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading benefits package

Private health and travel insurance

Family relocation support

Job summary

SRT Marine Systems plc is seeking aSenior Project Manager to lead delivery across complex, multi-site projects in East Africa, with a focus on Kenya. You will manage design development, installation readiness, and site operations while coordinating ICPs, consultants, and internal teams.

The role requires extensive site presence, strong governance, and skilled stakeholder management to ensure scope, schedule, cost, quality, and customer commitments are met. Travel will be frequent and in-country.

Qualifications

• Strong, proven experience in project management and delivery of complex construction and system integration projects.
• Experience of civil build, construction and design for communication towers, data centres would prove highly beneficial.
• Experience of international build, construction and design knowledge would prove highly beneficial.
• Experience working with in-country partners, design consultants, customer-side stakeholders, government/regulatory stakeholders and local subcontractors in East Africa or comparable international delivery environments.
• Ability to review and challenge contractor programmes, identify schedule risk, support recovery planning and translate programme issues into practical site actions.
• Strong capability in managing design clarifications, technical deviations, approval dependencies, procurement interfaces and installation-readiness constraints.
• Experience acting as a design manager, design coordinator or client-side design lead, including management of consultant deliverables, design review trackers, technical queries, comment close-out and approval workflows.
• Strong working knowledge of project governance, integrated planning, RAID management, change control, progress reporting, stakeholder management and commercial delivery awareness.

Responsibilities

• Lead assigned projects and workstreams, ensuring delivery remains focused on scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk and customer outcomes.
• Maintain project governance, including delivery reviews, action tracking, decision logs, escalation routes, reporting cycles and customer-facing progress forums.
• Oversee integrated planning, schedules, milestones, critical paths, dependencies, RAID, change control and delivery forecasts.
• Coordinate Kenya delivery across customer, government, regulatory, ICP, consultant, subcontractor and internal SRT interfaces.
• Maintain a regular site presence across Kenya, travelling frequently to project locations to review progress, resolve blockers and confirm construction and installation readiness.
• Act as design manager/coordinator during design development, overseeing ICP design consultant deliverables, review cycles, comment responses, approval submissions and alignment with SRT / customer requirements.
• Coordinate design workshops and reviews between SRT technical teams, the Programme Director, ICP, consultants, customers and site delivery teams.
• Manage design queries, technical clarifications, deviations, approvals, procurement dependencies and installation-readiness constraints.
• Ensure construction and design activities comply with applicable Kenyan health, safety, environmental and statutory requirements.
• Assist with tender activity, scope interpretation and delivery advice as required

Skills

Project management

Construction delivery

Design coordination

Stakeholder management

Travel readiness

Site-based work

IT literacy

Communication skills

East Africa experience

Tools

P6

MS Project

MSP

CAD

Job description

SRT Marine Systems plc is seeking aSenior Project Manager to lead delivery across complex, multi-site projects in East Africa, with a focus on Kenya. You will manage design development, installation readiness, and site operations while coordinating ICPs, consultants, and internal teams.

The role requires extensive site presence, strong governance, and skilled stakeholder management to ensure scope, schedule, cost, quality, and customer commitments are met. Travel will be frequent and in-country.