Runway Extension Project Manager

Licensed sponsor London Full-time Posted 16 hours ago

Requisition ID: 301007

Relocation Authorized: None
Grade: 28
Position to be Panel Interviewed? Yes
Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project
Work Location: London
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Project Overview

Join us for an extraordinary opportunity. Be part of the Heathrow West Project — a major aviation programme in the Greater London area that will help redefine the future of air travel and delivery excellence. We are building a dynamic team to plan and deliver complex, high-impact work at the heart of one of the region’s most innovative and fast-moving developments.

The project scope includes the planning, design, integration and delivery of major airfield infrastructure, buildings, systems and associated periphery infrastructure. If you are motivated, hands-on, and thrive in the energy of large-scale infrastructure and aviation projects, this is your opportunity to make a real difference. Please register your interest early to participate in this transformational aviation project.

Job Summary

Reporting to the Bechtel Project Director, the Runway Extension Project Manager will lead the definition, planning and delivery of the runway-extension masterplan commission. The role will establish a coherent scope, professional-services budget, resource plan and programme for approval, and then drive delivery against the authorised baseline through the allocated Package Managers and functional teams.

The role will integrate the technical, operational, environmental, construction, cost, land and consenting contributions needed to establish a credible masterplan, investigate material impediments and support decisions concerning the initial scheme, future runway extension and completed-airport configuration.

Major Responsibilities

Define and establish the commission

Establish a coordinated basis for the initial scheme, runway extension and completed-airport scenarios, identifying the questions to be answered, assumptions, decision owners and evidence required. Coordinate the assessment and consenting approach with the Client and the relevant functional and specialist leads.
Bring the contributing workstreams into an integrated scope of work covering deliverables, required inputs, interfaces, exclusions, resources, review responsibilities and a logic-linked programme. Use existing information and proportionate design development where appropriate, while identifying targeted additional work needed to investigate material impediments and demonstrate credible options.
Establish the professional-services budget, resource plan, package responsibilities and delivery milestones for approval.

Lead delivery and manage performance

Drive delivery of the agreed masterplan scope through the Package Managers, functional leads and consultant teams. Establish clear priorities and commitments, monitor progress and forecasts, challenge missed or inconsistent commitments, and coordinate corrective action where delivery departs from the agreed plan.
Maintain an integrated view of scope, professional-services expenditure and forecast, resources, programme, risks and decisions. Work with the responsible commercial and Project Controls specialists to identify emerging pressures, assess options and bring recommendations to the appropriate decision-maker.
Coordinate airport, airfield and terminal planning with operational and airspace assumptions, surface infrastructure, construction phasing, environmental effects, land and rights, capital-cost and planning/legal inputs. Require practical options and substantiated findings, rather than a compilation of separate consultant reports or a list of unresolved information gaps.

Integrate reviews, decisions and handovers

Plan and drive coordinated information releases, multidisciplinary reviews, comment resolution and handovers. Establish the intended use, receiving requirements and review and acceptance responsibilities for each principal output, with the responsible authors retaining technical assurance.
Frame significant issues and options for the Project Director and the Client, setting out the evidence, trade-offs, uncertainty, recommendation, decision required and consequences of delay. Track decisions and approved changes through the affected deliverables, assumptions and programme.
Work with Project Controls to integrate masterplan activities and decision dates with the initial-scheme DCO programme. Manage dependencies and conflicts involving shared specialists, design releases, assessments and consultation information, making consequences for both workstreams explicit and escalating priorities beyond the role’s authority.

Education And Experience Requirements

Relevant degree in engineering, airport planning, infrastructure development, project management or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of qualifications and relevant experience.
Substantial experience leading multi-consultant masterplanning, feasibility or early-development commissions for major infrastructure.
Demonstrated experience taking a multi-consultant commission from scope definition and approval through execution, review and completion, managing deliverables, professional-services budgets, resources and logic-linked programmes.
Experience bringing together technical, operational, environmental, construction, land, cost and planning evidence to support strategic development decisions.
Experience managing alternative development scenarios, phased delivery and interfaces between an initial project and potential future expansion.
Experience managing consultant reviews, resolving gaps and overlaps, and presenting qualified findings and practical options to senior decision-makers.
Airport or aviation masterplanning experience is strongly desirable. Experience of UK DCO/EIA processes, or comparable major-infrastructure consenting, would be advantageous.
A recognised project-management qualification or relevant professional membership would be advantageous.

Required Knowledge And Skills

Ability to define a proportionate masterplan commission around the decisions and evidence required, avoiding both unnecessary detail and unsupported feasibility claims.
Understanding of how airport planning, engineering, operational assumptions, construction phasing, environmental assessment and commercial considerations interact.
Ability to distinguish existing evidence, assumptions, unresolved constraints and decisions requiring further investigation.
Strong delivery and commercial discipline, including establishing an executable baseline, monitoring progress and forecasts, managing resource conflicts, implementing recovery actions and controlling changes through the appropriate authority arrangements.
Ability to maintain delivery momentum across specialist teams, resolve cross-workstream issues and secure timely decisions without displacing package-management responsibilities or technical assurance.
Ability to evaluate options and present clear recommendations covering feasibility, dependencies, trade-offs, uncertainty and consequences.
Understanding of safeguarding, cumulative effects, shared resources and information dependencies between initial development and future expansion.
Strong programme integration, review management and action closure, without assuming responsibility for physical construction or an uncommissioned future DCO.

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