Job Description

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General information

City/town:

London

Job field:

Construction

External closing date:

Saturday, May 31, 2025

Type of contract:

Permanent

ID:

5162
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Description and requirements

Skanska, one of the world's leading project development and construction groups, is an


inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.


We are looking for a Senior Project Manager (Vertical Transportation) to join our Building team in London.

What you'll do:

Lead the VT package delivery from pre-construction through to handover, ensuring programme, budget, and quality targets are met. Maintain a strong focus on installation quality and statutory compliance throughout the lift package lifecycle. Drive the specification, tendering, and procurement of lift systems in collaboration with the project team and supply chain. Arrange and conduct off-site inspections, mock-ups, benchmarks, and sampling in collaboration with consultants and client teams

What you'll bring to the role:

Demonstrable experience delivering lift/VT packages in a senior management capacity, ideally within a Tier 1 contractor setting. A deep technical understanding of lift design, installation, and commissioning, including statutory requirements and British Standards. Strong commercial awareness and programme planning capabilities. Confident in client-facing and consultant coordination roles, with excellent communication skills. Comfortable managing specialist subcontractors and interfacing with the wider construction team to ensure seamless project delivery. A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with the ability to lead in a complex, fast-paced environment. Ability to build strong relationships with the supply chain team to ensure that projects are delivered successfully.

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic - we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

Flexible working

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using

recruitment@skanska.co.uk

if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More information about the role

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us:

recruitment@skanska.co.uk

Closing date

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.

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