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About the Role
As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for the successful planning, coordination, and delivery of engineering and consultancy projects, typically up to £2M in value. You will manage project scope, programme, risks, resources, information flow, and financial performance while supporting client satisfaction and technical excellence. Working under the direction of a Senior Project Manager and/or Project Principal, you will coordinate multidisciplinary project teams and ensure delivery aligns with contractual requirements, project objectives, and HDR quality management processes.
Responsibilities
- Lead the day-to-day management and delivery of projects, typically up to £2M in value.
- Develop and maintain project execution plans, schedules, and resource plans.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary project teams to achieve project objectives.
- Ensure project deliverables are completed on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
- Monitor progress against programme and implement corrective actions where required.
- Develop and maintain clear project scopes, assumptions, and deliverables.
- Identify and manage scope changes and additional service requirements.
- Maintain project change registers and support preparation of change proposals and contract amendments.
- Ensure project teams understand and work within agreed contractual scope.
- Facilitate project risk identification and assessment.
- Maintain project risk registers and mitigation plans.
- Escalate significant risks and issues to senior management as appropriate.
- Promote proactive risk management throughout project delivery.
- Monitor project budgets, resource utilization, and forecasts.
- Support invoicing, project reporting, and financial reviews.
- Track project performance against budget and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Support achievement of project financial and operational objectives.
- Develop positive working relationships with clients and stakeholders.
- Coordinate project meetings, workshops, and reviews.
- Ensure actions, decisions, and deliverables are effectively communicated and recorded.
- Support client satisfaction through responsive and professional project management.
- Ensure compliance with HDR Quality Management Systems and project procedures.
- Coordinate document control, transmittals, and project records.
- Support project reviews, quality audits, and lessons learned activities.
- Ensure project documentation is complete and maintained throughout the project lifecycle.
- Provide leadership and direction to project delivery teams.
- Support effective collaboration across disciplines.
- Assist with mentoring and development of junior staff.
- Promote a positive, safe, and inclusive working environment.
- Manage project closeout activities.
- Ensure completion of contractual deliverables.
- Capture lessons learned and support continuous improvement initiatives.
- Ensure project records are archived in accordance with company requirements.
Requirements
- 7 years related experience; minimum 2 years project management experience.
- Commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture.
Skills
- Strong organization, communication (written and verbal), and stakeholder management skills.
- Able to co-ordinate across disciplines and manage competing priorities in a delivery environment.
- Comfortable supporting meeting management (actions/decisions) and information control (transmittals/registers).
- Competent in MS Word, Excel, Outlook & PowerPoint.
- Positive, professional attitude with a collaborative working style.
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Minimum 2 years project management experience
- 7 years related experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline.
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) or working towards CEng.
About the Company
- At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day.
- We foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities.
- We believe building engineering is more than systems and structures, it’s about powering progress and enabling innovation.
- As part of HDR’s Building Engineering Services Group, you’ll help design the critical infrastructure that supports the digital age and shapes the spaces where people work, connect, and thrive.
- From high-performance data centre's driving the future of AI to dynamic commercial environments, your work will directly support technological advancement, sustainability, and human experience.
- We bring together mechanical, electrical, structural, and civil engineering experts to solve complex design challenges with precision, creativity, and collaboration.
- Whether you're optimizing energy efficiency, integrating resilient systems, or engineering the backbone of next-generation facilities, your contributions will help define the future of the built environment.
- This isn’t just a job, it’s a chance to lead innovation, engineer impact, and build a legacy of excellence.
- HDR is our company. Together, we build on each other's life experiences and perspectives to make great things possible every day.
- This shapes our collaborative culture, encourages organizational trust and connects us closer to the clients and communities we serve.
- As employee owners, we all have a role in creating an inclusive environment where each of us is welcomed, valued, respected and empowered to bring our authentic selves to work every day.
- Our eight Employee Network Groups (Asian Pacific, Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), LGBTQ+, People with Disabilities, Veterans, Women, Young Professionals) help create a sense of belonging and foster a supportive environment where everyone is empowered to engage and contribute.
- Each group has an executive sponsor and is open to all employees.
Equal Opportunity
- As employee owners, we all have a role in creating an inclusive environment where each of us is welcomed, valued, respected and empowered to bring our authentic selves to work every day.
- Our eight Employee Network Groups (Asian Pacific, Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), LGBTQ+, People with Disabilities, Veterans, Women, Young Professionals) help create a sense of belonging and foster a supportive environment where everyone is empowered to engage and contribute.
- Each group has an executive sponsor and is open to all employees.