Project Manager
| Posting date: | 08 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £46,030 to £52,120 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 September 2025 |
| Location: | Guildford, Surrey, GU1 4LZ |
| Company: | National Highways |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6567_1757323622 |
Summary
About the job.
National Highways is excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for a Project Manager to join our team in the South East region. As a Project Manager, you will be managing the delivery of a portfolio of third party projects within our region from the design stage until the handover to National Highways,
Your expertise will be key to achieving agreed project outcomes while adhering to mandatory and delegated responsibilities, driving excellence in every phase of the project lifecycle.
This role is based from one of our Basingstoke, Guildford or Maidstone offices.
- Manage the delivery of a portfolio of third party projects within the Region, across all stages of the project lifecycle, from design to handover into maintenance, ensuring compliance with the governance process, the agreement, quality and technical standards, and health and safety requirements.
- Manage and evaluate risks, issues, dependencies and constraints associated with the portfolio, leading the development and implementation of solutions to overcome these.
- Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with the Regional Management Team, key stakeholders, suppliers, and across National Highways teams. Ensure mutual understanding of the portfolio's strategic and delivery objectives, to review and report on delivery performance, and to agree solutions that resolve complex issues.
- Programme management, financial reporting and risk management against the budget for the projects in the portfolio, ensuring effective financial and contractual practices are in place and adhered to by all project resources. Prepare project business cases.
- Ensure National Highways' reputation is maintained throughout the delivery of the schemes by delivering best-practice customer and stakeholder communications. Proactively manage interaction with Developers, stakeholders, road users and businesses
About you.
- Recognised qualification in relevant engineering discipline and/or with relevant experience in the delivery of Civil Engineering projects and portfolios.
- Proven portfolio and project management experience (related qualifications (e.g. MSP, APM, Prince2).
- Evidence of contract management with specific experience of NEC 4 forms of contract.
- Good understanding of relevant technical standards, Health and Safety regulations, construction practices, and relevant sections of the Highways Act (1980).
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to bridge the demands of multiple stakeholders.
About us.
Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.
Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads.
We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.
External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
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