Project Manager (NEC Construction)

As a Senior Project Manager (NEC Construction Administrator) at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.

The Opportunity

• Be a visible leader onsite, acting as the client’s representative and administering NEC contracts in accordance with the contract and UK best practice.
• Fulfil the duties of the NEC Project Manager / Construction Administrator, including issuing instructions, managing communications, and maintaining robust contract records.
• Proactively manage early warnings, compensation events, programmes, and change control processes under NEC forms of contract.
• Coordinate with the client team, consultant team, and contractors to ensure contractual, commercial, and programme obligations are clearly understood and met.
• Identify and manage risks and issues, working collaboratively with all parties to resolve them effectively and fairly.
• Lead and attend key project and commercial meetings, driving progress, resolving issues, and clearly communicating impacts to stakeholders.
• Implement, monitor, and continuously improve project and contract management processes, partnering with the client to enhance governance and outcomes.
• Support the client in achieving successful project delivery in terms of time, cost, quality, and safety, while maintaining strict contractual compliance.
• Implement project procedures and use reasonable endeavours to ensure that these procedures are always observed.
• Review proposed variations and delays in the works.

We would love to hear from you if you:

• Have strong experience administering NEC contracts in the UK construction industry.
• Have operated in a Senior Project Manager, NEC Project Manager, or Construction Administrator role within a consultancy or client-side environment.
• Have experience working on complex construction projects (for example, commercial, infrastructure, life sciences, or data centre environments).
• Have a project management or contract management professional qualification or are working towards one (such as APM, RICS, CIOB, or NEC accreditations) – we can support this.
• Have a degree or comparable experience in construction, engineering, quantity surveying, or a related discipline.
• Are highly detail-oriented, commercially aware, and quality focused.
• Are an excellent communicator, confident in both written and verbal engagement across all levels.
• Thrive on building strong, trusted relationships with clients and project teams through a collaborative and professional approach.

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.

About us

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!