Job Description

NEC4 Project Manager

Are you an experienced NEC4 Project Manager looking to make a tangible impact on the communities you serve? This is an opportunity to lead the delivery of a high-profile cycle route scheme for a Local Authority, helping to create safer, greener, and more connected places for people to live, work, and travel.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the NEC4 Project Manager, administering the contract and ensuring all contractual obligations are fulfilled in accordance with NEC4 processes.
• Lead the successful delivery of the cycle route scheme, managing programme, risk, quality, cost, and change throughout the project lifecycle.
• Build strong working relationships with the Local Authority, contractors, designers, statutory undertakers, and other key stakeholders.
• Manage early warnings, compensation events, communications, and project reporting to support informed decision-making.
• Promote a collaborative, proactive approach that delivers the project safely, on time, within budget, and to the required standards.

Essential Experience:

• NEC4 Project Manager Accreditation is essential.
• Proven experience acting as an NEC4 Project Manager on highways, civil engineering, or transport infrastructure projects.
• Strong working knowledge of NEC4 contract administration, including early warnings, compensation events, programme assessment, and change management.
• Experience delivering Local Authority or public sector infrastructure schemes, ideally within active travel or cycling projects.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills, with the ability to build collaborative working relationships.

FOOTNOTE:
If you feel that you are right for this role technically, but the rate, location, or seniority does not suit you specifically, please still feel free to send us your CV. We constantly recruit for similar roles at all levels across the UK. We are always keen to chat with you discreetly about your employment situation.
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