Project Manager
As a Project Manager, you will take ownership of and lead construction projects at Heathrow. This may include shaping requirements with stakeholders, developing scope and design, building the business case, or working with contractors to oversee the safe delivery of construction works across the Terminals and Airfield.
The role involves working in partnership with senior leaders across the organisation to help shape strategies and delivery plans that enable the successful implementation of solutions.
Responsibilities
- Delivering defined project work packages to agreed scope, schedule, cost, and quality, maintaining core project controls (including risk, schedule, cost, and change), and escalating issues where required.
- Progressing projects through governance gateways in line with the Heathrow Gateway Lifecycle, ensuring robust documentation.
- Coordinating design and technical inputs across multidisciplinary teams, ensuring requirements are clearly understood, design changes are effectively controlled, and operational and regulatory needs are fully incorporated.
- Following agreed governance processes, making sure safety, sustainability, and compliance requirements are met, and that all required documents are prepared to the expected standard.
- Building positive working relationships with stakeholders, clearly sharing updates on progress, risks, and impacts, and supporting meetings such as workshops, design reviews, and site visits.
- Supporting commercial and contract management activities, including administering change, monitoring supplier performance, reviewing valuations, and contributing to procurement exercises.
Qualifications
- Knowledge of project controls, including developing project forecasts and understanding earned value, programme reliability, projected outturn costs etc.
- Effective communication skills, with the ability to build relationships, coordinate effectively, and manage stakeholders.
- Experience in project planning, including developing schedules from first principles, reviewing and challenging contractor programmes, and working with P6.
- Managing project risk, including identifying, assessing, and developing mitigation strategies, with evidence of successful application to support project delivery.
- Commercial awareness and experience working within a contractual environment.
- Capability to solve problems, with well-developed analytical and numerical skills.
Ideally you will have
- Degree qualification in an appropriate discipline, or equivalent academic achievement.
- Working towards APM Chartered Project Professional (CPP)
- Experience of aviation and/or delivering Infrastructure projects in a regulated environment
Benefits
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.
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.
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.
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