Project Manager; Capital Delivery

We’re looking for a motivated and detail-oriented Project Manager to join our Enterprise Capital Delivery team. In this dynamic role, you’ll manage a portfolio of projects, supporting end-to-end delivery from planning through to completion. You’ll coordinate with internal teams and external stakeholders, remove delivery blockers, manage risks, and ensure projects meet time, cost, and quality targets. With a strong focus on communication, governance, and collaboration, you’ll play a key role in driving successful outcomes across strategic initiatives.

Our newly appointed Project Manager will be based in our recently formed Enterprise model, this is a new & exciting way of working for UU & brings together eight industry-leading partners to deliver crucial environmental and infrastructure projects.

You’ll be taking on some of our biggest and most complex projects; helping to upgrade infrastructure, cut carbon, and improve services for people across the North West – Are you up for the challenge?

• Collaborate with Project Engineers and lead multi-disciplinary teams to deliver safe, efficient, and high-quality investment programmes aligned with business objectives.
• Develop and manage project plans, resource schedules, and reporting frameworks to ensure delivery to time, cost, quality, and safety standards (TCQi).
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, supply chain partners and external bodies (e.g. NGOs, regulators, local councils) to ensure alignment and support across the programme.
• Manage risks, changes, and statutory approvals, escalating issues as needed to maintain progress and compliance.
• Ensure governance processes are followed, including regular updates to governance groups and acting as the client under CDM regulations.
• Promote a strong health and safety culture and ensure projects are designed and delivered with safety as a priority.
• Oversee programme reporting, stakeholder engagement and coordination across business functions to support successful project outcomes.

• Educated to degree level or equivalent industry experience.
• Qualified to APM or equivalent (this is desirable rather than essential)
• Evidence of thinking cross-functionally and cross organisationally, beyond one’s own professional areas of specialism is important as is the ability to conceptualise new, collaborative ways of achieving shared goals.
• Demonstrable expertise of delivering programmes to challenging timelines, balancing conflicting project priorities to ensure the successful delivery of agreed programme benefits.
• The ability to influence commitment and responsibility of key stakeholders in delivering the schemes.
• Be well organised with a focus on results, standards and objectives on time to quality, within budget and to reprioritise, plan and organise own and others’ work effectively to ensure these are met.
• Have proficient influencing skills combined with the ability to manage a diverse customer base and the confidence to constructively challenge actions/decisions.
• Excellent financial planning / management skills to develop short, medium and long term plans with an ability to budget proactively with large, high-risk or volatile elements being identified and cross-referenced to project activity.

• A generous annual leave package of 26 days, which increases to 30 days after four years of service, in addition to 8 bank holidays
• A competitive pension scheme with up to 14% employer contribution, 21% combined, and life cover
• A 10.5% performance-related bonus scheme, as well as recognition awards for outstanding achievements
• A comprehensive healthcare plan through our company-funded scheme
• Flexible and hybrid working

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