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About the Role

As a PDHU Heat Network Project Manager (Fixed Term), you will contribute to one of Westminster’s most significant infrastructure programmes, the Pimlico District Heating Undertaking (PDHU). You will support the Head of Programme in managing the development and delivery of projects, ensuring consistent governance and strong project management standards. This role involves building strong relationships with stakeholders, overseeing project delivery, managing risks, and supporting procurement activities.

Responsibilities

Support the Head of Programme in managing the development and delivery of projects within the wider PDHU programme.
Ensure consistent governance and strong project management standards.
Define key deliverables, resources, and benefits while managing dependencies across multiple workstreams.
Convene and facilitate programme steering boards, coordinating governance processes.
Ensure key decisions are well informed, clearly documented, and delivered at the right time.
Build strong relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including internal teams, specialist advisers, residents, and businesses.
Address challenges, align priorities, and keep progress moving.
Support consultation activity and act as a key point of contact.
Communicate complex programme and technical information clearly through reports, briefings, and presentations.
Oversee project delivery across the programme, coordinating inputs and monitoring performance against milestones.
Ensure work is delivered on time, within scope, and to the required quality.
Identify and manage risks early, resolve issues, and provide regular progress updates and impact assessments to senior stakeholders.
Oversee the preparation and maintenance of key programme documentation, including project plans, business cases, and reporting.
Guide and support the Project Coordinator in identifying best practices and gathering insight for programme decisions.
Support procurement activity and the management of contracted services, including drafting specifications and coordinating evaluation processes.
Ensure external expertise is effectively integrated into programme delivery.

Requirements

Experience of managing complex infrastructure or engineering projects, ideally within heat networks or similar technical programmes.
Experience working in or alongside a political or public sector environment.
Understanding of balancing delivery with good governance, accountability, and stakeholder expectations.
Consistent track record of keeping projects on track – on time, within budget, and to a high standard.
Comfortable running the practical side of programme delivery, including project plans, risk and issue registers, governance papers, and reporting.
Experience with financial oversight, budget management, and business planning.
Clear understanding of how projects deliver real benefits and value over time.
Confidence building strong relationships across a wide mix of stakeholders.
Ability to explain complex or technical ideas in plain English.
Experience coordinating work across multiple teams, often in matrix environments.
Experience managing consultants, working with contracts or frameworks, and supporting procurement activity.
Comfortable in agile or fast-moving programme environments where priorities shift and dependencies need careful management.
Strong analytical thinking to make sense of complex information and datasets, and turn insight into practical decisions and solutions.
Confidence negotiating contracts and managing scope changes.
Ability to keep delivery aligned with programme objectives.
Calm and thoughtful approach to leadership.
Clear communication, focus under pressure, and ability to help teams work through challenges constructively.
Sound judgement and political awareness to navigate complex situations, build consensus, and keep progress moving collaboratively and positively.

Skills

Project management
Infrastructure project management
Engineering project management
Heat network project management
Stakeholder management
Governance
Risk management
Issue resolution
Reporting
Financial oversight
Budget management
Business planning
Procurement
Contract negotiation
Analytical thinking
Communication
Leadership

Location

Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6Q

Work Type

Temporary up to 12 months
Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

£56,436 - £66,084 per annum

Benefits

Flexible working patterns
Agile working

About the Company

Capital Works in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories where dedicated and focused people are using all their skills to improve and enhance the lives of the people who live, work and play in our borough.
Westminster is an amazing place, home to over 200,000 residents, over 50,000 vibrant businesses, and where three-quarters-of-a-million people work.
Westminster City Council is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future.
By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.
At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice.
We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve.
We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is Our Westminster Way.
As a forward thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer.

Equal Opportunity

The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce.
We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' (formally known as B.A.M.E, Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit.
If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.
Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace.
Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.
If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job.
If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.