Infrastructure Project Manager
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Infrastructure Project Manager
- Infrastructure Programme
- Location: North West England / Hybrid
- Salary: Negotiable, competitive benefits package
Role overview
An opportunity has arisen for a Project Manager to join a leading infrastructure organisation, supporting an exciting and high-profile infrastructure programme.
The role will suit a Project Manager with experience in project governance, programme management, and project controls within complex infrastructure or construction-led environments. Operating within a client-side managed services setting, the role focuses on governance, assurance, and coordination across multiple delivery partners throughout design, construction, and transition into operations.
What this role offers
- Involvement in a nationally significant infrastructure programme
- Long-term project exposure with strong pipeline visibility
- Client-side perspective within a professional managed services environment
- Opportunity to work alongside experienced technical, commercial, and financial teams
Key responsibilities
Project governance and assurance
- Support the operation of project governance frameworks across a complex, multi-party delivery environment
- Monitor compliance with contractual, programme, and reporting requirements
- Support risk, issue, and change control processes
Programme oversight
- Review and challenge delivery partner programmes, progress reports, and key milestones
- Track performance across schedule, cost, quality, health and safety, and environmental metrics
- Support elements of project controls, including schedule, cost, risk, and performance reporti
Commercial and contract support
- Assist with contract administration, including change management and early warning processes
- Support cost monitoring, forecasting, and payment processes
- Liaise with commercial and finance teams to ensure accurate reporting
Stakeholder coordination
- Act as an interface between delivery partners, advisers, and internal stakeholders
- Support structured communication and governance forums
- Prepare briefing notes, dashboards, and reports for senior stakeholders
Risk, compliance, and reporting
- Maintain project risk and opportunity registers
- Support regulatory, ESG, and sustainability reporting requirements
- Contribute to continuous improvement of governance and reporting processes
Skills and experience
Essential
- Demonstrable project management and programme management experience within complex infrastructure or construction-led environments
- Experience working client-side, consultancy-side, or in an oversight or assurance capacity
- Ability to manage governance, risk, change control, and reporting across multiple stakeholders
Desirable
- Construction or engineering background enabling effective challenge of delivery programmes
- Chartered status (APM, RICS, ICE or equivalent) or working towards chartership is desirable but not essential.
- Experience working alongside contractors and designers on major projects
- Exposure to regulated infrastructure or long-term concession models
- Experience within water, utilities, transport, or linear infrastructure
- Understanding of whole-life asset management considerations
Personal attributes
- Structured and detail focused
- Comfortable operating without direct line authority
- Commercially aware
- Confident in challenging delivery partners constructively
- Calm and credible with senior stakeholders
