Project Delivery Manager - Engineering Projects

Project Delivery Manager - Engineering Projects Location: London (Hybrid/Remote)Contract Type: 6-Months Inside IR35 Are you an experienced project leader with a passion for delivering complex engineering projects safely, on time, and within budget? We're looking for a Project Delivery Manager to take ownership of a portfolio of capital projects, driving excellence from initiation through to operational handover.What You'll Do

• Lead end-to-end delivery of engineering projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and compliance with safety, quality, and governance standards.
• Accountable for end-to-end project delivery at the site(s) including management of projects through all delivery stages (with consideration for financial/operational recovery plans), approval of budget changes, performance management against service partner KPIs, risk assessment/mitigation, and handover effectiveness.
• Ensure projects deliver agreed benefits to the business, tracking performance against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and ensuring alignment with site and corporate objectives.
• Conduct assurance reviews and stage-gate assessments to ensure projects meet quality, compliance, and governance standards at every phase.
• Work with the Head of Facilities & Engineering and Engineering/Operations Lead determining optimal delivery and procurement strategy.
• Develop project options in collaboration with the Head of Facilities & Engineering, Occupancy/Space Planning, Engineering/Operations Leads (and/or delegate Tech Ops Engineering Managers) and assigned Project Manager for schemes to present to the project sponsor. Develop preferred scheme for scope development and detail design by design consultants.
• Manage budgets, approve changes, and monitor performance against KPIs.
• Conduct assurance reviews and stage-gate assessments to maintain quality and compliance throughout the project lifecycle.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define scope, develop business cases, and optimize delivery strategies.
• Oversee risk management, financial reporting, and contractor performance.
• Drive continuous improvement by leveraging lessons learned and best practices.
• Define the risk management strategy for each project, align any value engineering and ensure that associated processes and tools required to ensure effective identification, monitoring and management of project risk are implemented.
• Maintain organizational standards of satisfaction, quality, and performance. Ensure safe and compliant execution by competent contractors of all capital projects following country regulations, company Policies, Standards, SOPs and site-specific requirements.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience managing multiple engineering or facilities projects from concept to completion.
• Understanding of governance, compliance, and assurance processes.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to develop and implement risk management strategies.
• Degree or equivalent in engineering, construction management, or related discipline.
• Familiarity with safety standards and regulatory requirements.

Desirable

• Professional certifications such as PMP, Prince2, APM, or Lean.
• Experience in highly regulated environments.
• Knowledge of value engineering and continuous improvement methodologies.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.