Posted: 15 June
The role
Job Description
My client is a leading Civil Engineering company who are going through huge growth at present. They are seeking a Civils Project Manager to lead the delivery of a BBV-controlled HS2 civils package.
This is not an office-based PM role — it is a hands-on, site-driven leadership role within a Tier 1 assurance environment. The subcontract explicitly requires the subcontractor to deliver full compliance in quality, information management, technical assurance, and HSE documentation systems
Duties:
- Act as the company’s single point of responsibility to BBV for delivery, compliance and coordination
- Attend BBV progress meetings
- Hold Interface coordination meetings
- Carry out assurance and audit reviews
- Work in line with BBV Safety, Health & Wellbeing framework and HS2 and CDM Regulations
- Ensure RAMS are fully prepared, accepted and briefed prior to works
- Workforce competence, supervision and briefings meet requirements
- Enforce “no approval – no work” principle
- Exercise and promote Stop Work Authority
- Personnel, structured supervision, and formal control of hazards through approved systems and training governance always required
- Quality & Assurance: Ensure all works are delivered strictly in accordance with: Approved Inspection & Test Plans (ITPs)
- Ensure all quality evidence is: Captured, Structured, Traceable
- Manage Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs) via DALUX / DDD, including Root cause analysis, Corrective and preventive actions, Formal close-out with evidence
- Change Control & Field Change Requests (FCRs)
- Ensure all site-driven changes are raised formally via: Field Change Requests (FCRs) in DALUX
- Enforce no change implemented without written approval
- Protect the company commercially by preventing: Informal instructions, Undocumented change
- Act as Temporary Works Coordinator (TWC) for the package
- Ensure all Temporary Works are: Identified and classified, entered into the TW Register, Designed, checked and approved, permitted, inspected and signed off prior to use
- Coordinate: Temporary Works Designers, Checkers, Supervisors
- Ensure full compliance with: BBV Temporary Works procedures (BS5975 aligned)
- Lifting Operations & Cranage (Preferred Competence)
- Provide competent oversight of lifting operations
- Where holding AP (Lifting): Act as Appointed Person for lifting activities
- Lead: Lift planning, Crane selection, Interface with BBV lifting teams
- Ensure environmental compliance with HS2 Environmental Minimum Requirements (EMRs)
- Ensure environmental controls are implemented, monitored and evidenced
- Ensure no environmentally sensitive activity proceeds without accepted RAMS
- Ensure the company operates within BBV’s systems, including:DALUX / DDD – NCRs, FCRs, inspections, QA evidence, business collaborator (BC) – submissions and approvals, ProjectWise – drawings and models (where applicable)
- Ensure document control is fully resourced
- Ensure information is accurate, controlled and auditable
Requirements:
- Temporary Works Coordinator (TWC) (Required)
- SMSTS or equivalent (Required)
- Appointed Person (Lifting) (Preferred)
- Engineering / construction qualification (Preferred)
- Proven Project Manager experience on complex civils / infrastructure works
- Experience delivering within a principal contractor environment
- Experience in assurance-heavy framework (HS2, Network Rail, Major Infrastructure)
- Experience in Temporary Works governance
- Experience in ITP-led quality systems
- Highly process-driven and disciplined
- Comfortable operating in: Audit-heavy Regulated delivery environments
- Will challenge unsafe or non-compliant instructions — even under pressure
- Strong communicator across: Client (BBV), Site teams, Supply chain
If you are interested in applying for this role, click the link below or contact Mark Barrett on 0874027117/mbarrett@ratiorecruitment.com
