Project Manager – Structural Steel Installation
📍 Ipswich
💼 Permanent | Up to £75,000 DOE + Benefits
An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced Project Manager to join a well-established structural steel contractor. This is a key leadership role overseeing the full lifecycle delivery of structural steel installation projects, ensuring safe, efficient, and commercially controlled execution across a high-profile nuclear infrastructure programme.
What you’ll do:
📊 Lead and manage structural steel installation projects from planning through to completion
📅 Develop, manage, and maintain detailed project programmes and lookahead plans
🏗 Coordinate site activities, trades, subcontractors, and fabrication interfaces
📐 Review and interpret structural drawings, erection sequences, and construction methodologies
🤝 Liaise with clients, engineers, designers, and internal teams to ensure full project alignment
📑 Manage project documentation including contracts, RFIs, variations, and work packages
💰 Monitor budgets, costs, and financial performance in collaboration with commercial teams
🧾 Chair site meetings and provide clear progress reporting internally and to clients
🦺 Ensure full compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards across site operations
🔧 Resolve technical, logistical, and construction issues quickly and effectively
🏭 Act as the key link between site operations and fabrication/workshop teams
📈 Oversee quality control and ensure successful project handover and completion
You’ll need:
✔ Proven experience (5+ years) as a Project Manager within structural steel, steel erection, or heavy construction
✔ Strong technical understanding of steel fabrication, erection methods, and site operations
✔ Ability to read and interpret structural drawings, shop drawings, and erection plans
✔ Experience using planning tools such as Asta Powerproject or Primavera P6
✔ Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
✔ Experience in contract administration and cost control (QS coordination)
✔ Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
✔ Experience with Trimble / Trimble Connect (essential)
✔ Competence in Bluebeam or similar PDF mark-up tools
✔ Valid driving licence and willingness to be site-based full time
✔ CSCS / SMSTS (or equivalent site safety certification)
✔ Degree or diploma in Civil Engineering, Construction Management or similar (desirable)
✔ NEBOSH / IOSH qualification (desirable)
✔ Experience with BIM / Tekla Structures and crane lift planning (desirable)
Why this role?
📈 Long-term secured project pipeline offering strong job stability
🤝 Join a highly experienced and collaborative delivery team
💷 Competitive salary up to £75,000 depending on experience
🚀 Strong opportunity to progress within a specialist structural steel environment
📩 Interested? Email for a confidential discussion or to send your CV.