Project Manager

Job Description

As a Project Manager , you will take ownership of and lead construction projects at Heathrow. This may include shaping requirements with stakeholders, developing scope and design, building the business case, or working with contractors to oversee the safe delivery of construction works across the Terminals and Airfield.

The role involves working in partnership with senior leaders across the organisation to help shape strategies and delivery plans that enable the successful implementation of solutions.

Responsibilities

• Delivering defined project work packages to agreed scope, schedule, cost, and quality, maintaining core project controls (including risk, schedule, cost, and change), and escalating issues where required.
• Progressing projects through governance gateways in line with the Heathrow Gateway Lifecycle, ensuring robust documentation.
• Coordinating design and technical inputs across multidisciplinary teams, ensuring requirements are clearly understood, design changes are effectively controlled, and operational and regulatory needs are fully incorporated.
• Following agreed governance processes, making sure safety, sustainability, and compliance requirements are met, and that all required documents are prepared to the expected standard.
• Building positive working relationships with stakeholders, clearly sharing updates on progress, risks, and impacts, and supporting meetings such as workshops, design reviews, and site visits.
• Supporting commercial and contract management activities, including administering change, monitoring supplier performance, reviewing valuations, and contributing to procurement exercises.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of project controls, including developing project forecasts and understanding earned value, programme reliability, projected outturn costs etc.
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to build relationships, coordinate effectively, and manage stakeholders.
• Experience in project planning, including developing schedules from first principles, reviewing and challenging contractor programmes, and working with P6.
• Managing project risk, including identifying, assessing, and developing mitigation strategies, with evidence of successful application to support project delivery.
• Commercial awareness and experience working within a contractual environment.
• Capability to solve problems, with well-developed analytical and numerical skills.

Ideally you will have

• Degree qualification in an appropriate discipline, or equivalent academic achievement.
• Working towards APM Chartered Project Professional (CPP)
• Experience of aviation and/or delivering Infrastructure projects in a regulated environment

About Us

There's something so special about working at the world's most iconic airport. Its sights. Its sounds. Its constant air of excitement. Heathrow is an amazing backdrop to a career filled with unique opportunities.

Every day, you'll discover a world full of fresh possibilities and end the day buzzing with stories to tell, as you encounter people from all cultures, nationalities and experiences. A world full of pride for what we do and no end of exciting career prospects to explore.

It brings out the best in all of us. And inspires everyone to deliver on our ambitious plans. Together, we're working to welcome millions more passengers while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability.

Join us on that journey and we'll help you achieve your ambitions too. Supporting you to learn, encouraging you to be yourself, backing you to achieve more than you might ever have imagined. Because there's no place like Heathrow.

Our rewards

We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. As well as performance-based annual bonuses and our longer-term Share in Success Bonus plans, we also offer generous annual leave allowances and market-leading pensions. With family friendly policies, access to private health insurance and a wide range of wellbeing tools, we'll support you to be at your best inside and outside work. And of course, we'll provide varied learning and development opportunities too. Here you'll find everything you need for a fulfilling career journey that can take you in exciting directions.

Working Location

Our Hybrid working approach offers the opportunity for colleagues in some roles to work from home for an average of two days a week, providing the flexibility to work in an agile way whilst ensuring we deliver for the operational needs of Heathrow. Working arrangements vary from team to team and will be confirmed during the recruitment process. You'll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow.

Sustainable Travel to work

Heathrow's Sustainable Travel Guide sets out easy and sustainable travel options that everyone can access.


Equal Opportunities

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger - not least because we welcome passengers from all corners of the globe, every single day. Heathrow is an accessible place to work. With five diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.

About the Team

Together, we're working to welcome millions more passengers, while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability.

Join Heathrow's Development team and you'll be part of this, making every journey better for millions each year, now and in the future.

We're the team that's responsible for our multi-billion pound programmes to successfully transform Heathrow into an extraordinary airport, whilst delivering outstanding value for passengers and airlines.

Development covers project management, process improvement, business change, master-planning, infrastructure and our ambitious capital investment programmes. This includes Heathrow Expansion, the UK's biggest privately funded infrastructure project and flagship for delivering lasting economic growth.

It brings together people with the skills to deliver prestigious projects that make a lasting impact, from transforming terminals to making big reductions in our carbon emissions.

Every day will test your skills and give you the opportunity to make your mark.