Project Manager Construction

Job Description

Job Title: Project Manager Construction

Location: Rosyth, Fife

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74571

The role

As a Project Manager Construction, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll take ownership of the delivery of major infrastructure, construction and refurbishment projects within a highly regulated and technically complex environment. This is an exciting opportunity to lead projects that directly support critical defence infrastructure while developing your career within one of the UK’s leading engineering organisations.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading the end to end delivery of construction, infrastructure and refurbishment projects from planning through to completion.
• Managing site activities, subcontractors, resources, materials and quality assurance processes.
• Establishing project governance, including reporting, planning, risk management and stakeholder engagement.
• Acting as the primary interface between clients, consultants, contractors and internal delivery teams.
• Driving a strong safety first culture while ensuring compliance with Health, Safety, Security, Environmental and Quality requirements.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Rosyth.

Essential Experience

• Proven experience delivering construction or infrastructure projects across the full project lifecycle.
• Strong experience managing site based construction activities, subcontractors and quality control processes.
• Experience working within complex or regulated environments with a focus on governance, risk management and reporting.
• Demonstrable experience managing project budgets, schedules and commercial performance, including contract administration using NEC, JCT or FIDIC contracts.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to build effective relationships across multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction, Engineering or a related discipline.
• Site Management Safety Training Scheme certification.
• Institution of Occupational Safety and Health qualification or equivalent health and safety certification.
• Recognised Project Management qualification such as Association for Project Management or equivalent.
• Membership of a relevant professional body such as the Chartered Institute of Building, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors or Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, or working towards professional membership is desirable.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels – GOV.UK ().

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading allows employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day’s paid leave a year to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.

Disability Confident Employer

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 14/07/2026