Senior Project Manager

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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.

Responsibilities

• 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 ensuring Construction Design and Management Regulations (CDM) duties are met across all activities.

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 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.
• Experience with contracts (ideally NEC) and supply chain performance management, 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.

Sustainable Travel to work

Heathrow's Sustainable Travel Guide sets out easy and sustainable travel options that everyone can access.

Equal Opportunities

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.

About the Team

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. At Heathrow, you can be part of this - providing solutions that make every journey better for millions each year. That means ensuring we meet the changing needs of the passengers, colleagues and partners who use our airport to work, travel, trade, shop, eat, explore and connect. Our Solutions team covers project management, process improvement, business change, technology, cyber defence, masterplanning, infrastructure and procurement. It brings together people with the skills to deliver prestigious and often large-scale projects, from transforming terminals to making big reductions in our 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 data that power our city within a city, driving vital commercial agreements with everyone from retailers to airlines, or improving the unique infrastructure that includes everything from 200 buildings to 250 HV substations. It's a collaborative environment, where you can rely on the support of the experts around you as you take on projects you'll both take pride in and feel passionate about.