Project Manager Heavy Civils

Head of Shafts – Major Infrastructure Programme 📍 London (North Acton) | 💼 Permanent | 

An opportunity has arisen for a Head of Shafts to join a major infrastructure programme in London, delivering a portfolio of complex heavy civils works within a Tier 1 principal contractor environment.
This role will oversee delivery across four major projects (circa £200M each), including shaft construction, underground interfaces, reinforced concrete structures and associated civil works. While only one shaft involves excavation, the role requires broad experience across large-scale infrastructure delivery and multi-site management.

The Role You will provide leadership across multiple project teams, acting as the senior point of coordination for delivery, programme performance, and risk management.
Key responsibilities include:

• Leading delivery across multiple concurrent infrastructure projects and sites
• Overseeing works including shaft construction, deep excavations, RC structures, secondary lining and underground interfaces
• Managing Senior Project Managers and multidisciplinary delivery teams
• Ensuring alignment across design, pre-construction, construction and handover phases
• Driving performance across programme, cost, quality and safety metrics
• Acting as the escalation point for technical, commercial and delivery risks
• Managing interfaces between contractors, stakeholders and supply chain partners
• Embedding best practice in health, safety, quality and continuous improvement

About You This role would suit a Senior Project Manager stepping into a broader leadership role, or an experienced Project Director with a background in major infrastructure delivery.
You will have:

• Proven experience delivering large-scale infrastructure or heavy civils projects (£100M–£200M )
• Strong understanding of construction methodologies for complex civil engineering works
• Experience working within a Tier 1 / principal contractor environment
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple sites, packages or project portfolios
• Strong leadership capability with experience managing matrix teams and senior stakeholders
• Experience working under NEC contracts, with strong commercial awareness
• An engineering degree (civil, structural or related discipline)

Experience on major UK programmes such as HS2, Crossrail, Tideway or similar is highly desirable.
What’s on Offer

• Salary of around £80-100K
• Opportunity to work on a high-profile infrastructure programme in London
• Clear progression pathway into a Project Director role
• Long-term programme stability within a major delivery organisation

This is a permanent role.

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