Project Manager

About the Opportunity

Working here isn’t just a job. You can advance your career at Avove, and we’ll reward you with a range of benefits that recognize great work. We provide full training and continuous development to help you reach your potential. We strive to create an inclusive working environment where everyone can be themselves. Join us and take the next step towards a fulfilling career.

Responsibilities

• Oversee project delivery and financial performance, identifying risks early and implementing corrective actions.
• Plan, coordinate, and supervise programmes of work, ensuring compliance with contracts and timely progress monitoring.
• Lead, coach, and support teams and subcontractors to deliver high-quality, safe, and efficient outcomes.
• Promote and ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards, including temporary works oversight.
• Manage scope, design acceptance, risk management, and quality assurance processes in line with framework requirements.
• Build strong relationships with clients and supply chain partners, ensuring clear communication, collaboration, and excellent customer experience.
• Handle change control, cost management, procurement, and contractual obligations to keep projects on time and within budget.
• Capture lessons learned, drive continuous improvement, and ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, and training requirements.

About You

Proven experience managing the full project life cycle, from initiation to delivery. Strong organizational skills to coordinate day-to-day on-site activities. Skilled in risk management with the ability to identify and resolve issues proactively. Track record of delivering projects safely, on time, within budget, and to high quality standards. Confident leader with experience managing both internal teams and supply chain partners. Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with clients, partners, and local authorities.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Company car/car allowance
• Company pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Family friendly policies
• A selection of lifestyle benefit options
• Financial wellbeing programme
• Employee assistance program for health and wellbeing and onsite mental health first aiders to support our colleagues
• Volunteering days in your community
• Charity matched giving where we will boost your fundraising

About Company

We design, build and maintain the UK’s utilities infrastructure to help transform local communities for the better. We provide cutting-edge and sustainable engineering solutions and play a critical role in helping to keep the water running, the lights on and people connected.

We are an expert, responsible and agile partner, providing vital services to water, power and telecommunications sectors. We work closely with our clients to help protect and improve their assets, enhance customer experience and protect the natural environment.

Everything we do is designed to drive continual improvement and move life forward.

We are proud to work in partnership with leading utility providers, including Severn Trent, United Utilities, Yorkshire Water, Northern PowerGrid, Northumbrian Water Group, Scottish Power Energy Networks.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from candidates of all races, genders, disabilities, religions, ages and sexual orientations. We know that having a diverse workforce encourages new perspectives, inspires creativity and creates an engaging workplace and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where all colleagues can thrive. When it comes to inclusion, we’re making sure we keep up the progress with our Communities of Practice, who help us do just that.

What Next

We encourage you to apply for this role as soon as you can. We recognize talent waits for no one, so we progress candidates individually through all stages of recruitment process.

If you have any questions, please reach out for an informal discussion.