Senior Project Manager

BWB Consulting is a dynamic, award-winning engineering and environmental design consultancy. We push boundaries, innovate, and deliver exceptional results—earning us the ACE Best Large Consultancy of the Year (2022) and the ACE 2024 Wellbeing Award.

We’re serious about people - BWB is both an Investors in People and Investors in Wellbeing accredited organisation. We invest in talent, growth, and a high-performance culture where you can thrive, challenge yourself, and make an impact.

At BWB, you’ll be part of a team that:

• Drives Excellence – We set the standard and exceed expectations.
• Innovates – We embrace fresh ideas and cutting-edge solutions.
• Works with Integrity – We do what’s right, always.
• Collaborates – We believe in teamwork, mentorship, and shared success.
• Leads in Sustainability – We integrate sustainable solutions into everything we do.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager with Rail experience to join our team as a Senior Consultant in one of our key offices in Nottingham, London, Birmingham or Manchester Office.

As a Senior Project Manager you will be working alongside our Project Teams and Project Directors to help deliver all stages of the Project Lifecycle from Concept through to Benefits Realisation, working alongside our Technical Experts to ensure our Projects meet Stakeholder needs.

Responsibilities will include leading a variety of projects for key clients, monitoring and reporting progress against project baseline data (Scope/Time/Cost/Quality), and creating and monitoring project change and risk profiles per the contract and Client requirements.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly growing part of the BWB Consulting business, the Project Management team who work with clients in the Private Sector (commercial office, residential, logistics/distribution etc.) and Public Sector (highways, rail, universities, leisure etc.).

• Ideally educated to degree standard in the related subject.
• Holds a professional membership of a relevant professional institute or working towards one.
• Professional experiences gained from within a consultancy environment.
• Excellent written and oral communicator, with the ability to adapt communication style to suit different circumstances.
• The ability to build and maintain strong relationships with Stakeholders at all levels both internally and externally.
• A ‘self-starter’ with drive, positivity and enthusiasm and a strong desire to succeed.
• Ability to draft Reports for Clients, and communicate technical issues clearly to non-technical clients.
• Ability to work both independently with minimal supervision and cohesively as part of an experienced team within BWB and collaboratively with other Stakeholders.
• Ability to lead, coordinate and manage multidisciplinary project teams.
• Fully conversant with the MS 365 suite of applications and highly proficient in the use of MS Excel.

Your experience will include

• Minimum of 8 years’ experience and knowledge of within the Private or Public sector.
• Experience of working with the APM project life-cycle is preferred. Ideally demonstrated by professional qualification (APM-PMQ or above).
• Qualified to NEC Accredited Project Manager in either NEC3 or NEC
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• Experience of the management of contracts including the use of NEC3 / NEC4 (ECC and PSC) or JCT family of contracts and including sub-contractor/consultant management.
• Experienced in using MS Project or similar for project scheduling.
• Experiences gained from working on large-scale projects within the Infrastructure or Development sectors is desirable.
• Experience of delivering to Network Rails GRIP process is essential.
• Experience in working with stakeholders including Local Authorities, Highways England, Network Rail, HS2, National Grid, Environment Agency, Developers and Tier 1 Contractors. Including secondment roles.

• Deliver the projects safely to time, cost and quality, in accordance with the project life cycle, company standards and other specific legislation.
• Provide a professional, first class, consistent and effective project management service to the clients, including project…