Project Manager

 

Description:

Project Manager – Structural Steel Installation

📍 Ipswich

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

🚀 Strong opportunity to progress within a specialist structural steel environment