Project Manager in London

Right across infrastructure, there is a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you are at in your career, with us you will have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We are problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

This role will be within our water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.

As our Project Manager you will play a key role in our trunk main delivery programme. You will coordinate seamlessly across design, planning, construction, commercial, permitting, traffic management, and commissioning. You will own the end-to-end delivery of the trunk main package, ensuring performance against time, cost, quality, and safety targets. This includes establishing project governance, maintaining programme baselines, and driving risk and opportunity management. You will also lead CDM compliance and Principal Contractor duties, ensuring robust RAMS, permits, safe systems of work, and a strong safe-by-design approach.

You will act as the primary day-to-day interface with Thames Water, managing progress reporting, change control, assurance gates, and operational constraints. Your role covers environmental compliance, quality assurance, pressure testing, chlorination, as-builts, and handover. You will manage key external stakeholders—including highways authorities, councils, landowners, businesses, and residents—while coordinating communications and consents for road closures, night works, and customer impact mitigation. You will also lead design development and approvals across MEICA and civils interfaces, ensuring constructability, phasing, utility surveys, and clash management.

You will produce and manage an integrated programme across design, permitting, procurement, construction, testing, and commissioning—protecting the critical path, productivity, and delivery certainty. With ownership of budget, forecasting, change control, and subcontract performance, you will set clear expectations for the site team. Fostering a high-performing culture built on behavioural safety, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

What You Will Bring

• Do you have a degree/HNC/HND or equivalent in Civil Engineering or Construction?
• Do you have Institute of Leadership and Management Level 5 or equivalent?
• Have you gained your NEBOSH National Certificate (General or Construction)?
• Experienced manager with proven track record in leading multidiscipline teams
• Proven ability to deliver against operational targets
• Commercially aware and engaged
• Committed to delivering the highest health and safety standards
• Able to deliver excellent customer service
• Do you have experience in an operational manager role?
• Have you gained experience of infrastructure delivery?
• Experience in managing designers and subcontractors
• SMSTS
• Water hygiene

What's in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include:

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to thousands of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme
• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• Private health care for you and your family plus Health Care Cash Plan
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us
• Personal Accident Cover

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We are responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We are open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We are together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We are ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you are a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development. It is an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered. For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to third party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.