Project Manager in England

Thomson Environmental Consultants is seeking a capable, commercially aware Project Manager with 3–4 years' experience working with NEC4 contracts. This is an exciting opportunity for someone ready to step into a leadership role while continuing to grow their career within a supportive and expanding environmental consultancy.

You will manage and deliver environmental projects, particularly in habitat creation and arboriculture. You’ll be involved in every stage—from pricing and planning to site delivery, change control, and client reporting. You will be responsible for ensuring projects are delivered safely on time, and within budget while maintaining high standards of quality and compliance under NEC4 contractual obligations.

You will be responsible for tracking project performance across cost, schedule, and risk. You will play a lead role in managing programmes, assessing impacts to the critical path, and handling change through Early Warning Notices (EWNs), Compensation Events (CEs), and proactive stakeholder engagement—particularly in public sector frameworks where clarity and responsiveness are essential.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the delivery of environmental projects using NEC4 contracts.
• Support commercial performance: margin tracking, forecasting, and cost management.
• Prepare and manage project programmes, key milestones, and resource plans.
• Liaise with clients, internal teams, and subcontractors to ensure alignment and delivery.
• Manage change, compensation events, early warnings, and risk registers in accordance with NEC4.
• Conduct site visits and oversee project execution as required.
• Prepare and maintain accurate project documentation, RAMS, and progress reports.
• Track and report project performance including risk, cost, and schedule metrics.
• Lead the preparation and management of Early Warning Notices and Compensation Events.

This position will provide a supportive environment to develop your project management career with exposure to a variety of environmental, ecological, and arboricultural projects.

Salary: up to £48,000 per annum, dependent on skillset.

Requirements:

• Have 3–4 years of experience in a Project Management or Assistant PM role delivering projects under NEC4.
• Have strong working knowledge of NEC4 contractual procedures (Option A/B).
• Have experience in environmental projects, construction, civil engineering, or arboriculture is desirable.
• Be a proactive communicator with good stakeholder management skills.
• Be competent in scheduling tools (MS Project or equivalent) and financial reporting (CVRs, budgeting).
• Be organised, commercially aware, and capable of leading multidisciplinary teams.

At Thomson, we strive to be the very best at what we do, both in the eyes of our customers and our colleagues. We believe in One Thomson; we draw on and value every individual’s unique skills and experience to come together and support each other in delivering an exceptional service. Our people are our greatest asset.

We want Thomson to be a great place to work, where everyone feels supported to be the best they can be. We are proud of our friendly, supportive, ‘nothing is too much trouble’ culture. We live and breathe our RISE (Respect, Integrity, Support, Excellence) values. Your opinions matter to us; we are constantly evolving. We promote a healthy work-life balance to ensure we have an engaged, productive and happy team.

We are flexible and committed and welcome new challenges. We recognise the importance in training and developing our team as well as offering a competitive pay and reward package. Involving ourselves in our local communities is important to us and we are proud of our continued achievements in fund raising for charity. We work hard but have fun too. We are passionate about career development so we make sure we nurture talent.

Our people benefit from access to a diverse range of industry-accredited external training, as well as in-house training opportunities led by our specialists. The variety of projects we deliver across the breadth of environmental services encourages cross-team working and collaboration. We can offer you the opportunity to contribute to and lead on high-profile, once in a life-time projects.

You’ll enjoy all the benefits we have to offer which include: 25 days annual leave, healthcare cash plan, enhanced stakeholder pension scheme, life insurance, discounted gym membership, paid professional memberships, clothing allowance, outstanding performance rewards, long service awards, free parking and regular local and company social events.

As an equal opportunities employer, Thomson is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, gender reassignment, being married or in a civil partnership, being pregnant or on maternity leave, disability, race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply to and join Thomson.