Project Manager – Transport & Public Realm

• Location: Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NE
• Salary: £45,000 - £50,000
• Hours: 37.5 per week
• Contract: Full-time
• Work Style: Flexible, minimum 3 days in office

Join our London office as a Project Manager within our growing transport team. This is an opportunity to take a leading role in the delivery of complex transport, highways and public realm projects that make a visible difference to local communities. You'll work closely with local authority clients, design teams, contractors and a wide range of stakeholders, helping to take projects from design review and approvals through to procurement, construction and delivery.

The role offers a high level of responsibility and the opportunity to work on major, multi-phase programmes in busy urban environments.

As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for coordinating and driving the delivery of complex transport and public realm commissions. You'll bring together programme, budget, design, approvals, engagement and delivery work streams, ensuring projects remain well managed and that clients have clear oversight of progress, risks and decisions. Your projects may involve active travel, public realm, junction and signal improvements, traffic management, traffic orders, walking and cycling infrastructure and wider town centre improvements.

You'll work with multidisciplinary teams and provide the coordination needed to move projects efficiently from one stage to the next. This is a client-facing role requiring strong organisation, communication and judgement. You'll be comfortable working with senior officers, technical specialists, contractors and stakeholders, and able to maintain momentum across projects with multiple dependencies and competing priorities.

You'll take ownership of project delivery, establishing clear programmes, budgets, governance and reporting arrangements and ensuring that actions are progressed across the project team. You'll anticipate issues, manage risks and dependencies and provide clients with clear, practical advice to support decision-making. A key part of the role will be coordinating multidisciplinary design and delivery teams. You'll ensure design reviews, approvals, procurement, stakeholder engagement and construction planning are aligned and that the right people are involved at the right stage.

You'll also help strengthen Citisense's project management capability by sharing good practice, supporting colleagues and contributing to consistently high standards of client service and project delivery.

• Lead the planning and delivery of complex, multi-phase transport, highways and public realm projects from design development through to implementation.
• Develop, maintain and report against detailed project programmes, identifying dependencies, critical activities, delays and recovery actions.
• Manage project budgets and expenditure profiles, monitor forecasts and provide clear and regular financial reporting to clients and senior stakeholders.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary design teams and manage design reviews, actions, approvals and deliverables through each project stage.
• Work with technical teams to coordinate highway, public realm, traffic management, traffic signal, modelling and traffic order requirements.
• Coordinate statutory, technical and client approvals, including liaison with relevant highway and transport authorities where required.
• Develop and maintain project risk registers, actively managing design, programme, commercial, stakeholder and delivery risks, including relevant client duties under CDM.
• Support the development of procurement and construction delivery strategies, including phasing, traffic management and coordination with…