Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Provide clear and reasoned client advice across the full project lifecycle from feasibility to handover
• Provide strategic and technical advice on infrastructure delivery, phasing, and risk
• Support the development of business cases, feasibility studies, and delivery strategies
• Develop and maintain strong lasting client relationships
• Develop and manage project execution plans, programmes, and reporting
• Coordinate multiple workstreams including utilities, physical infrastructure, hard and soft landscaping, and all enabling works
• Monitor progress against key milestones and manage recovery actions where required
• Manage and coordinate multi disciplinary design teams (architects, civil and structural, MEP and other specialists)
• Check that infrastructure designs meet the client brief in terms of functionality, regulatory, sustainability and operational needs
• Lead design reviews, value engineering, and buildability assessments
• Manage and enable interfaces between the infrastructure and vertical build phases
• Support procurement strategies for consultants, contractors, and specialists
• Advise on and administer contracts (typically NEC or JCT)
• Manage change control, variations, and commercial impacts
• Monitor cost plans, forecasts, and financial reporting
• Coordinate stakeholder engagement with statutory authorities, utility providers and third parties
• Chair design team meetings, client reviews, and progress workshops
• Act as a key escalation point for project issues, risks, and decisions
• Identify, remove, mitigate or manage infrastructure and delivery risks
• Ensure compliance with client and any other governance requirements
• Implement quality assurance processes across design and construction stages
• Support gateway reviews, audits and assurance activities
• Monitor contractor performance on site
• Support resolution of design, coordination, and interface issues
• Ensure information flow supports construction and commissioning activities
• Coordinate commissioning, testing, and completion of infrastructure systems as appropriate
• Ensure delivery of O&M manuals, asset data, as built information, and certifications
• Support transition to the client operational teams

Knowledge & Skills Required

• Evidential experience delivering infrastructure projects
• Experience managing multi disciplinary design teams
• Strong client facing and communication skills
• Ability to manage complex interfaces and competing stakeholder requirements
• Enquiring and ambitious mind to learn on complex projects and develop problem solving skills
• Ability to get on with all types of individuals and seek to modify approaches as a situation may demand
• Respond confidently to a client request; as well as understanding when to escalate client issues to senior members of the team
• Provide innovative solutions to improve project delivery
• Ability to show resilience and resourcefulness in the face of highly complex challenges
• Commitment to outperforming client expectations
• Demonstrate a high degree of integrity and ethical standards
• Provide support to junior team members
• Show good leadership skills and demonstrable ability to lead, motivate and manage teams including the supply chain

Preferred Education and Experience

• Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Building Services, or similar
• Professional or project management qualification Chartered or working toward chartership
• Knowledge of NEC and JCT contracts
• Experience in delivering infrastructure projects for the later development of residential led schemes, mixed use schemes, offices and more
• Client focused and commercially aware
• Strong coordination and leadership skills
• Analytical, organised, and detail driven
• Comfortable operating across design and construction phases

EEO Statement

Cumming Group is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, "race" (includes nationality, national / ethnic origin, colour), marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, gender assignment, religion and belief. Cumming Group is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities through its personnel policies and practices. It is Cumming Group's policy to recruit, hire, train and promote Team Members and applicants for employment without regard to age, sex, race (including colour, nationality, ethnicity or national origin), religion or belief, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, disability, being married or in a civil partnership, being pregnant or on maternity leave or any other protected characteristic under UK and European law. All such decisions are based on (1) individual merit, qualifications, and competence as they relate to the particular position, and (2) promotion of the principle of equal employment opportunity.