Senior Project Manager

Application deadline

17 August 2026

Recruitment type

Full-Time, Permanent

Country

United Kingdom

Location

London

Req. ID

61380

Senior Project Manager

London, Derby, York, Glasgow or Bristol

Permanent

Office/Home Hybrid Working

Do you want to want on technically challenging projects? Can you manage multi-disciplinary teams? Are you an experienced Project Manager? Then, read on. This could be the perfect opportunity for you.

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow

To provide project management expertise, we are looking for a Senior Project Manager to join us. Working on a variety of projects, you’ll manage day-to-day performance of delivery partners, technical specialists, and internal teams, ensuring risks, interfaces, constraints and progress are effectively controlled to achieve project outcomes.

Your key responsibilities will be:

Manage day-to-day management, coordination and delivery of assigned project scope within the project, ensuring alignment with programme baselines, performance objectives.

Build and maintain effective working relationships to ensure shared understanding of project objectives - including safety, programme, carbon reduction to support informed decision-making on progress, risks and issues.

Manage delivery partner and consultancy performance by clearly defining requirements, setting expectations for safety, time, cost and quality, and taking timely action to resolve emerging issues

Oversee commercial and contractual performance to secure value for money and maintain control over costs

Manage the identification, assessment and management of project risks, issues, interfaces and dependencies, implementing effective mitigation and escalation where required.

Ensure all project activities are delivered safely, in accordance with safety leadership expectations, CDM regulations, and environmental commitments.

Promote a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, collaboration and accountability across the team.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.

The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

On top of that, you’ll have:

An engineering degree or Project management degree

Possess Chartered status or APM PMQ (or equivalent)

Previous experience leading teams to manage projects in either Infrastructure, Energy, Utilities, Water/Wastewater or Transmission sector.

Experience managing business or value management cases for new projects through company defined governance, review and approval gates.

Experience of managing and maintaining agreed project plans and detailed stage plans.

Clear demonstration of commercial acumen with the capability to negotiate and oversee contracts to achieve results and ensure value for money

Experience in innovation, sustainability, and best practice in major programme delivery

Experience mentoring or coaching project managers to grow their project management skills and capabilities within a complex project environment.

Solid strategic leadership, planning, organisational and decision-making ability

Clear and effective communicator with the ability to persuade others, supported by sound commercial and financial knowledge

A place to work and so much more

At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.

With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

What we also offer:

To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well.

Some of our benefits include:

28 days' holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays

Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities

Private health care, for you and your immediate dependents

Flexible and hybrid working conditions

Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions

Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange

Life assurance

Cycle-to-work scheme

Corporate gym membership

Got more questions?

If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Ciaran Gilfedder at CIGI@COWI.COM.

Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

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