At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead critical infrastructure projects, managing delivery from design to handover.
- Company: Fast-growing engineering contractor in the critical infrastructure sector.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career progression, and influence over project delivery.
- Other info: Confidential role with excellent growth opportunities in a demanding environment.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team and make a real impact on essential projects across Europe.
- Qualifications: 10 years in construction, strong M&E and CSA knowledge, relevant qualifications.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Location: Manchester (with UK & European project exposure)
Type: Permanent
Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience
The opportunity
We're working exclusively with a specialist engineering contractor that has grown fast and quietly become one of the names people in critical infrastructure delivery talk about. Multiple live programmes across the UK and mainland Europe, more coming, and a leadership team that wants a Senior Project Manager in Manchester who can own delivery rather than just administer it.
Who this suits
You don't need to have built a data centre before. What matters more is where you've been cutting your teeth. We want to hear from Project Managers coming out of:
- Electrical contracting and building services
- MEP and M&E delivery
- CSA fit-out and complex internal environments
- Critical power, technical fit-out or specialist subcontracting
- Principal contractor backgrounds delivering multi-disciplined packages
If you've run packages or full projects where CSA and MEP interfaces actually mattered, where the programme was tight, the client was demanding and the environment didn't forgive mistakes, this role will feel familiar even if the sector label is new.
What you'll be doing
You'll take ownership of project or package delivery from a Principal or Main Contractor position, managing the full lifecycle: design coordination, procurement, subcontractor and supply chain management, commercial reporting, programme control and commissioning oversight. You'll be the person clients and their professional teams deal with directly, so this is a delivery and relationship role in equal measure, not a back-office one.
Day to day, expect to be:
- Driving programme, cost and quality across CSA and MEP works
- Leading procurement of plant, equipment and works packages alongside commercial teams
- Managing subcontractor and supply chain performance to keep packages on track
- Overseeing commissioning through to handover, with all documentation done properly
- Owning client relationships and communication, not just reporting upward internally
- Managing risk, early warnings and commercial exposure across NEC, JCT or FIDIC forms
What you'll bring
- Around 10 years in construction delivery, ideally as a Principal or Sub-Contractor
- Strong M&E and CSA interface knowledge, including commissioning
- Confidence managing programme, cost and supply chain simultaneously
- Comfortable working in demanding, live or critical environments where downtime isn't an option
- SMSTS, CSCS and a relevant H&S qualification
- HNC/HND or degree in a relevant engineering discipline
Why look at this now
This client is expanding, not consolidating. That means genuine progression for someone who wants to grow into bigger programmes rather than sit still in one. It also means the person who joins now has more influence over how things get built than someone joining once the structure is already set.
This is being run on a confidential, retained basis through Morson. Full details on the business, the programmes and the package are shared at the point of a conversation, not before.
Interested or want to know more before applying? Contact Ryan Dickenson, Morson Edge, for a confidential conversation.
