Senior Project Manager – HS2 TK Elevator UK Ltd

TK Elevator GmbH; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading elevator and escalator company is seeking a Senior Project Manager in London to join their HS2 division. This role involves managing project interfaces, supervising project programs, and ensuring financial targets are met. The ideal candidate has a minimum of 7 years of project management experience in the lifts and escalators industry and a strong background in stakeholder management. Benefits include a competitive salary, generous holiday, and a comprehensive health plan.

Benefits

Competitive salary paid monthly

34 days holiday including bank holidays

Attractive company pension scheme

Health cash plan

Life Assurance Scheme - 4x annual salary

Free access to premium health and wellbeing apps

Subsidised gym membership

Enhanced maternity and paternity provisions

Salary sacrifice benefits including Electric Cars

Long Service award scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Refer a friend scheme

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of experience in project management within the lifts and escalators industry.
• Proven experience managing large-scale and/or complex projects.
• Strong influencing skills and ability to build effective stakeholder relationships.

Responsibilities

• Manage interfaces with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Supervise the project programme and ensure milestones are achieved.
• Control project costs during execution and maintain the project budget.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Commercial awareness

Teamwork

Education

Engineering background or technical knowledge

Tools

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Project, Outlook)

Job description

We are moved by what moves people, by what moves the world and in our ever-growing cities. Through honesty, transparency, and a commitment to colleagues and clients, they foster a culture of entrepreneurship, passion, and responsibility. With unique engineering expertise, we provide comprehensive support for urban mobility, ensuring safety and efficiency in vertical transportation throughout the lifecycle.

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our growing HS2 division to support our project division, based in our Aldgate offices in London, reporting to the HS2 Project Director.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Project Manager, your day to day will include:

• Manage interfaces with key internal and external stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle, with a strong focus on proactive customer collaboration.
• Supervise the project programme, ensuring all milestones are achieved in line with agreed schedules.
• Control project costs during execution, including maintaining and managing the project budget.
• Perform weekly and monthly forecasting, developing mitigation plans for scope changes or potential cost overruns.
• Ensure project objectives are met by tracking and evaluating short- and long-term plans against project timescales.
• Develop, maintain, and manage a project-specific risks and opportunities register, mitigating associated financial impacts.
• Ensure all required client notices and project records are issued in accordance with contractual requirements.
• Act as the company’s on-site representative, championing a strong safety culture.
• Facilitate client liaison and maintain effective communication with project teams and management, providing regular updates on site progress and planning.
• Ensure all project deliverables and design workflows are in accordance with the accepted programme and project requirements
• Ensure all site pre-commencement works and site works are in line with project with all TKE Health and Safety procedures and in accordance with project requirements.
• Manage all project scope changes and variation orders and ensure the financial targets of the projects are met
• Ensure all local supply and procurement workflows for the project are in accordance to the programme and required quality and budget
• Ensure all TKE health and safety procedures are implemented on the project at all time.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of experience in project management, Lifts and escalators industry in the UK is mandatory
• Proven experience managing large-scale and/or complex projects through development and delivery
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders
• Strong influencing skills with a track record of achieving positive outcomes
• High level of commercial awareness, with proven experience negotiating and managing contracts to deliver value for money
• Experience and working knowledge of NEC contracts
• Engineering background or technical knowledge is desirable
• Strong administrative and organisational skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, Project, and Outlook
• Teamwork and stakeholder management skills

Benefits

• Competitive salary paid on a monthly basis
• 34 days holiday, inclusive of bank holidays
• Attractive company pension scheme
• Health cash plan provided, allows you to claim towards health costs. For example, dental, optical, physiotherapy, chiropody and more.
• Life Assurance Scheme - 4x annual salary
• Free access to premium health and wellbeing apps
• Subsidised gym membership
• Industry-leading enhanced maternity and paternity provision
• Multiple salary sacrifice benefits including Electric Cars and Cycle2Work
• Long Service award scheme, with holiday benefits
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Refer a friend scheme