Senior Project Manager - Mechanical

Skanska, one of the world’s leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society. We are looking for a Senior Project Manager – Mechanical to join our Building Services Team located in London. Reporting to the Operations Manager or Project Director, you will effectively and professionally lead the day-to-day operational management on large scale multi‑disciplinary commercial projects covering design, procurement, installation, logistics, compliance, commissioning, and hand‑over, within the Skanska JV building construction team. You will ensure delivery to time, commercial performance, governance and Skanska values are met during all phases of the project’s delivery to the satisfaction of the client.

What you'll do:

• Ensures full compliance of design, engineering, construction, and commissioning processes.
• Add value to the design process by challenging solutions, methods, and techniques where appropriate to deliver works within the contract programme, improve build ability and reduce whole life costs.
• Develop and administer controls on the project or workplace and ensures full implementation and compliance.
• Leads lessons learnt and collates for future projects.
• Understand, develop, scrutinise, deliver, and monitor end‑to‑end programme.
• Set milestones and key deliverables.
• Lead the implementation of overall project plan and create Plan B.
• Active control of commercial and contractual aspects applicable to project.
• Input and ability to scrutinise financial forecasting and CVR.
• Create and manage profit improvement plans for the project.

What you'll bring to the role:

• Experience managing project teams working on large commercial schemes in London and the surrounding areas, with combined package responsibility value of circa £25M.
• Appropriate knowledge and experience to manage multiple disciplines/interfaces and work sequencing.
• Proven track record in successfully delivering large scale MEP contracts to time and within commercial constraints.
• Formal H&S training accreditations, minimum SMSTS.

Equal opportunities: We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high‑performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

Flexible working: We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reasonable adjustments: We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using recruitment@skanska.co.uk or call 0330 105 2000 – Option 5 & 1, if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More Information About The Role: Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us: recruitment@skanska.co.uk.

Closing date: The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business. We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.