Senior Mechanical Project Manager - Life Sciences - London

Senior Mechanical Project Manager - Life Sciences - London

Monday, 11 August 2025

The Role:

• Estimating Assistance - the ability to read drawings and extract all equipment for costing
• Health & Safety - inductions of personnel onto site, carry out daily briefs, tool box talks, monitoring & assist writing RAMS, monitoring H&S plan
• Procurement - monitoring stock of materials, assist site supervisor with timely procurement of materials, overseeing deliveries and appropriate hire goods
• Subcontractors - liaising with subcontractors, coordination of works, trouble-shooting
• Programme - monitoring the progress of the programme & reporting on progress to main contractor / client
• Quality - check sheets, inspection of quality of installation on site - ensuring they meet company standards
• Meetings - attend/provide input for progress meetings
• Testing - carrying out and/or signing off tests, overseeing other testing on site
• Commissioning - overseeing commissioning by specialists, ensuring there are no delays
• O&M - production information for the manual & timely markup of 'as installed drawings', preparation of the building log book & operations guide
• Communication with the Divisional Manager is essential - supervision of the site and update reporting directly
• Escalation of issues to Divisional Manager
• Building & maintaining good relationships with the project team from client/end user through to maintenance team
• Management of all Site Personnel
• Sharing lessons learned, flagging of recurring issues
• Liaising with the design team & answering queries
• Overseeing specialist installations - have/build on a brief knowledge of all mechanical systems & their operation

Person Specification:

• Life Science project experience is essential for this position
• Knowledge and experience of the full project lifecycle
• Extensive awareness of Procurement and contracts within Project Management
• Ideally from a Mechanical Engineering or Mechanical trade background

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