Project Manager (Assurance) - Civils & AFO in London

We are currently recruiting for a Project Manager to join our Completions & Transitions team at SCS Railways, supporting the Shafts & Headhouses Delivery unit.

This role is the Project Manager for engineering assurance activities for civil, architectural and fit‑out disciplines for shafts and headhouses, focusing on construction and handover phases. Scope of works covers all Shafts and Headhouses and includes RC, structural steelwork, blockwork, cladding, miscellaneous steelwork, passive fire protection and landscaping. Shafts assets span from West Ruislip to Euston, and regular attendance at asset sites is a key part of this role.

This role will plan, coordinate and report on construction assurance activities, ensuring that programmes are in place at each asset for assurance activities and are actively managed by the Project Engineer team. It will liaise on day‑to‑day requirements between technical and quality assurance teams and the engineering management team to identify key risks and opportunities to the assurance of the works, reporting regularly to the Completion and Transitions Lead on escalations required to maintain progress.

Regular liaison with subcontractors and suppliers is a key part of this role, ensuring each supplier fully understands and delivers against the requirements of their Works Information and has a relationship to provide escalation back to SCS. It is also responsible for the accurate digital delivery of the Project Information Model for construction assurance in so far as the correct allocation of documents and files in the information systems forms a key part of the project information delivery plan.

Reporting to the Completions & Transitions Lead, this role will manage a team of Project Engineers.

Main Responsibilities

• Understanding and ensuring the asset programmes are maintained, that the project CDE (Common Data Environment) reflects plans and can be used to interrogate progress.
• Monitoring and reporting on assurance of in‑progress works to highlight key risks to the timely and accurate assurance of the works that would otherwise not become clear until after works are complete on site.
• Leading on implementing digital solutions for assurance gathering on site.
• Working with project engineers to have an assurance look‑ahead programme for each work package, in place and populated no more than two weeks after the completion of the package.
• Reporting on this weekly to the leads with justifications and mitigations for date movements.
• Working with the Project Engineers and Technical Assurance Team to ensure that consistently high quality evidence is planned and delivered to satisfy System Safety, Technical Interfaces, Requirements and Undertakings and Assurances.

The Ideal Candidate

• Degree level qualification (or equivalent) in a Civil Engineering allied subject or HND in Civil Engineering and vocational training in Engineering.
• Main contractor and major project experience highly desirable.
• Ideally you are currently working at agent or project manager level.
• Experience of programme management.
• Knowledge and understanding of construction contract law and forms of contract through experience and formal training.
• Computer competence (MS Word, Excel, Document control system, Aphex).
• Relevant CSCS Card.
• Training in Health & Safety and Environmental management.
• Understanding the Client and Joint Venture Partners' environment and sustainability policies, processes and statutory requirements as they affect the company's operations and ensure that the requirements, as applicable within their discipline, are implemented on the project.

About the Company

The role will work on the HS2 project. HS2 is the UK's new high speed rail network. It will be a catalyst for economic growth across Britain, freeing up space on the existing railways and connecting eight of the UK's ten biggest cities with fast, reliable and frequent high speed services.

The Skanska | Costain | STRABAG (SCS JV) are delivering the HS2 London Tunnels Contract. Scope of works includes twin‑bored tunnels (TBM), SCL tunnels, shaft sinking, bridge demolition and reconstruction, services diversions, earthworks and the construction of site compounds.

You will be a welcomed member of the wider team, with opportunities to take on additional responsibility, join our EDI Champions program or support the local community (e.g. as a STEM ambassador). Your personal and professional development is important to us. We welcome a discussion about how we can support you with further study, or professional membership or attainment for example.

HS2 works closely with Skanska, Costain and STRABAG to monitor job applications to ensure an inclusive recruitment process. To maintain this, we require candidates to complete a diversity form as part of their application so we can monitor and improve our approach to diversity. All responses are anonymous and we will not share any of your data with other parties. All data will be held securely, as stated within the Data Protection Act 2018 and UK GDPR, and will be reported to HS2.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation. SCS Railways is a Disability Confident Leader. We want to encourage disabled people to apply for our roles and have an opportunity to display your skills, talent, and abilities. We will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview.

Please see the disability confident commitments:

• Have a physical or mental impairment, which has a substantial and long‑term effect (over 12 months) on your ability to carry out normal day‑to‑day activities.
• Demonstrated in your application and pre‑interview stage that you meet the minimum job criteria and person specification for the role.