Project Director

Are you a Project Director with proven experience leading major, multidisciplinary infrastructure projects for a Tier 1 or leading main contractor?
Do you have experience taking responsibility for complex infrastructure schemes valued at £100m+, ideally from pre-construction and design through to construction and delivery?
Are you looking for the opportunity to take overall leadership of a high-profile infrastructure project, managing a large project team and complex stakeholder environment through a challenging delivery programme?

Location:

Home Counties - predominantly site based, with potential for 1 day per week working from home

Salary: up to £140,000 per annum DOE + up to 30% bonus and £8000 car allowance

• Car Allowance: £8,000
• Bonus: up to 30%
• Pension: 6% company contribution
• Healthcare:
  Family private healthcare and additional healthcare benefits
• Holiday: 26 days annual leave, increasing with service to a maximum of 30 days, plus holiday purchase scheme

A leading UK infrastructure main contractor is looking to appoint an experienced Project Director to take overall responsibility for the delivery of a major infrastructure project. The scheme is currently progressing through the development and design stages, with enabling works and mobilisation planned for 2027. This is a complex, multidisciplinary project incorporating significant civil engineering, building, architectural and MEP elements alongside interfaces with specialist infrastructure systems.

The Project Director will take overall leadership of a project team of approximately 80 people, with a senior management team reporting directly into the position. A major focus of the role will be successfully transitioning the scheme through pre‑construction and design into full delivery, ensuring programme, commercial, safety and technical requirements remain aligned. The programme is particularly challenging, and the successful candidate will need to demonstrate experience delivering complex infrastructure projects against demanding timescales while maintaining the highest standards of safety and quality.

The position will also involve significant senior‑level stakeholder management across the client, delivery partners, designers, statutory bodies and other external organisations.

• Provide overall leadership and strategic direction for a major infrastructure project.
• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary project team of approximately 80 people, establishing the culture and standards required for successful delivery.
• Take overall accountability for programme, cost, value, safety, quality and project performance.
• Lead the project through development, design, pre‑construction, mobilisation and construction.
• Manage a senior project leadership team including project, construction, commercial and health and safety functions.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with senior client representatives, delivery partners, designers and external stakeholders.
• Drive the project programme and ensure key milestones are achieved against a challenging fixed completion date.
• Oversee design development and ensure the emerging solution remains deliverable, commercially viable and aligned with the agreed budget.
• Provide senior oversight of NEC contractual requirements, project risk and commercial performance alongside the commercial leadership team.
• Ensure subcontractors and supply chain partners are effectively procured, integrated and managed throughout the project lifecycle.
• Identify and manage significant programme, commercial, technical, stakeholder and delivery risks.
• Provide visible leadership around health, safety and wellbeing, ensuring programme pressures never compromise safe delivery.
• Lead the project through the necessary contractual and pre‑construction stages before transition into the main construction phase.
• Maintain effective communication with internal directors and provide clear reporting on programme, commercial position, risk and overall project performance.

• Previous experience operating at Project Director, Programme Director, Delivery Director or equivalent senior project leadership level.
• Strong…