About the Role
The Senior Delivery Manager provides leadership, assurance, and performance management for Boldyn’s delivery functions across multiple projects. This role ensures delivery activities meet time, cost, quality, and safety targets, acting as the primary link between project delivery, commercial control, and technical assurance. Responsibilities include identifying risks, executing recovery plans, championing compliance with safety regulations, and managing commercial obligations.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and coach Delivery Managers and support colleagues to achieve delivery excellence and personal development.
- Act as the operational lead of the delivery function, providing clear direction and escalation management across projects.
- Define and enforce delivery standards, processes, and tools across the team in alignment with the Programme Office framework.
- Conduct regular reviews with Delivery Managers to evaluate progress, quality, risks, and adherence to standards.
- Create a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement across all delivery disciplines.
- Provide consolidated visibility of programme risks, milestones, dependencies, and inter-project impacts.
- Support all Delivery Managers with RAID oversight, ensuring that issues are resolved and mitigations tracked to closure.
- Undertake regular audits of delivery performance, ensuring data accuracy, escalation discipline, and early warning reporting to the Programme Manager, Senior Project Manager, and Programme Office.
- Intervene decisively to resolve high-impact risks and drive recovery strategies across multiple projects.
- Ensure lessons learned are captured and embedded into processes to continually strengthen Boldyn’s delivery resilience.
- Act as the senior point of contact for deployment partners and key suppliers, managing performance against SLAs and contract obligations.
- Hold oversight of commercial performance across all assigned projects, ensuring budgets, forecasts, and change controls are managed correctly.
- Review and challenge cost movements, variations, and subcontractor claims, maintaining commercial integrity and traceability.
- Partner with Procurement Commercial teams on supplier tenders, pricing frameworks, and contract negotiations to ensure competitive value and uphold Boldyn’s commitment to Responsible Procurement.
- Monitor supplier invoicing and milestone achievement, applying financial governance to prevent cost leakage.
- Drive understanding of contractual obligations across the Delivery function, ensuring compliance and consistent reporting of commercial risk.
- Work with the Solution Design Manager and engineering leads to ensure buildable solutions, version control, and design assurance.
- Chair or oversee build readiness reviews, ensuring designs are construction-compliant and approval-ready before execution.
- Apply broad technical understanding of DAS, Wi-Fi, and fibre to support decisions and resolve on-site issues.
- Safeguard alignment between design intent and site execution to achieve quality, compliance, and handover readiness.
- Impart construction and engineering knowledge to the wider team and maintain buildability / build assurance compliance.
- Maintain high standards of subcontractor management through structured oversight and performance reviews.
- Ensure deployment partners meet programme requirements, technical standards, and safety obligations.
- Review site-level reports, audits, and evidence submissions from Delivery Managers to confirm alignment with contractual KPIs.
- Provide escalation support for complex build or logistics issues, balancing practical judgment with compliance.
- Ensure that site operations, logistics, and access constraints are effectively managed across concurrent projects.
- Oversee quality assurance across all delivery activity, ensuring design intent, build standards, and handover documentation meet Boldyn requirements.
- Validate that all installations pass quality inspections and technical sign-offs before handover to clients and operators.
- Conduct spot checks and process audits to assess adherence to build quality, documentation standards, and record-keeping.
- Drive process improvement initiatives to reduce rework and improve first-time-right outcomes.
- Collaborate with Design and Engineering to align QA outputs with technical deliverables and version control processes.
- Act as the senior delivery lead for compliance with Health & Safety and CDM 2015 Regulations, or equivalent safety regulations.
- Hold accountability for ensuring Principal Contractor and Principal Designer duties are executed in accordance with statutory requirements.
- Champion a proactive safety culture by embedding best practice across all delivery sites and partners.
- Review Construction Phase Plans, RAMS, and risk assessments to ensure they meet Boldyn and legislative standards.
- Conduct safety inspections and participate in SHEQ audits, ensuring findings are closed promptly and lessons are cascaded across teams.
- Act as senior delivery interface with clients, MNOs, landlords, and internal stakeholders.
- Provide structured updates to the Programme Manager, Programme Office, and Head of Delivery, presenting delivery performance, risk, and recovery actions.
- Support executive reporting to Programme Office governance forums and steering committees, including inputs to dashboards, stage reviews, and phase gates.
- Drive alignment between internal stakeholders to ensure programme objectives are met collectively.
Requirements
- Experience leading telecoms infrastructure delivery (DAS, Wi-Fi, fibre, or neutral host environments).
- Proven leadership of multiple project delivery teams with direct accountability for cost, schedule, and safety.
- Professional project management qualification (PRINCE2, APM PMQ, PMP).
- Professional CDM qualification CITB / NEBOSH / IOSH / SMSTS.
- Demonstrable ability to apply governance, RAID, and assurance disciplines across multiple concurrent projects.
- Strong technical understanding of telecoms build and integration across radio, fibre, and power.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Proven success improving delivery quality, cost control, and risk management performance.
- Degree in construction, civil engineering, telecoms management, or project management (e.g., BEng, BSc, or equivalent).
- Full UK driving licence.
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) or Incorporated Engineer (IEng).
- Experience working within or alongside MNOs, Neutral Hosts, or Infrastructure Operators.
- Experience contributing to ISO-certified QA or governance systems.
- Formal leadership or management training (ILM / CMI Level 7).
Skills
- Leadership
- Mentoring
- Coaching
- Delivery Excellence
- Risk Management
- RAID Oversight
- Commercial Management
- Contractual Management
- Supplier Management
- Technical Integration
- Design Assurance
- Subcontractor Oversight
- Quality Management
- Health & Safety Compliance
- CDM Regulations
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Communication
- Negotiation
- Project Management
- Telecommunications Infrastructure Delivery
- DAS
- Wi-Fi
- Fibre
- Neutral Host Environments
- Cost Control
- Schedule Management
- Safety Management
- Governance
- Assurance Disciplines
- Telecoms Build and Integration
- Responsible Procurement
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
- Flexible working opportunities
Experience Level
- Senior
- Multiple years of experience leading telecoms infrastructure delivery
- Proven leadership of multiple project delivery teams
Education Level
- Degree in construction, civil engineering, telecoms management or project management (eg. BEng, BSc or equivalent)
- Professional project management qualification (PRINCE2, APM PMQ, PMP)
- Professional CDM qualification CITB / NEBOSH / IOSH / SMSTS
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) or Incorporated Engineer (IEng)
- Formal leadership or management training (ILM / CMI Level 7)
Benefits
- Parental leave with up to 20 weeks paid at full salary
- Holiday allowance starting at 25 days rising with length of service
- 4 days off each year to volunteer
About the Company
- At Boldyn Networks, we’re reimagining the future of interconnectivity. Our network solutions are solving some of tomorrow’s greatest challenges. We are one team across the globe. Always listening. Learning. We value different perspectives and challenge each other to be our best. Here, you can change lives today and create a better tomorrow.
- We’re large enough to deliver and maintain large-scale operations, giving you the opportunity to work on exciting projects and expand your skills. You’ll be surrounded talented colleagues who thrive on solving problems, just like you. Together, you’ll make your mark on projects that matter and find new strengths along the way.
Equal Opportunity
- Diversity recognises the ways we differ. Our backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. What makes us unique. And it’s important to us, to our future. To build a workforce that’s representative of the societies we serve. So that we can listen, learn and understand how to solve our customers’ problems in the smartest ways possible.
- We are looking for passionate people from a range of backgrounds and welcome applications from any race, age, gender, background, or religion.
