General information
City/town: London Job field: Construction External closing date: Friday, January 9, 2026 Type of contract: Permanent ID: 5140
Description and requirements
Skanska, one of the world’s leading project development and construction groups, is an
inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.
We are looking for a Senior Project Manager - Mechanical to join our Building Services Team located in London. Reporting to the Operations Manager or Project Director responsible for the project, effectively and professionally lead the day-to-day operational management on large scale multi-disciplinary commercial projects to include, design, procurement, installation, logistics, compliance, commissioning, and project handover, within the Skanska JV building construction team. Whilst ensuring the delivery to time, commercial performance, governance, and Skanska values are met during all phases of the project’s delivery to the satisfaction of the client.
What you'll do:
1. Ensures full compliance of design, engineering, construction, and commissioning processes.
2. Add value to the design process by challenging solutions, methods, and techniques where appropriate to deliver works within the contract programme, improve build ability and reduce whole life costs.
3. Develop and administer controls on the project or workplace and ensures full implementation and compliance.
4. Leads lessons learnt and collates for future projects.
5. Understand/ develop/ scrutinise/ deliver/ monitor end to end programme. Set milestones and key deliverables. Lead the implementation of overall project plan. Responsible for creating Plan B.
6. Active control of commercial and contractual aspects applicable to project. Input and ability to scrutinise financial forecasting and CVR. Create and manage profit improvement plans for the project.
What you'll bring to the role:
7. Experience managing project teams working on large commercial schemes in London and in the surrounding areas, with combined package responsibility value of circa £25M.
8. Appropriate knowledge and experience to manage multiple disciplines/interfaces and work sequencing.
9. Proven track record in successfully delivering large scale MEP contracts to time and within commercial constraints.
10. Formal H&S training accreditations, minimum SMSTS
Equal opportunities
We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.
Flexible working
We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.
Reasonable adjustments
More information about the role
Closing date
The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.
We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.