Cumming Group is an international project and cost management consultancy delivering innovative solutions in construction, real estate, and infrastructure. With a commitment to collaboration, transparency, and performance excellence, we support some of the world's most respected clients across diverse range of sectors.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• To provide clear and reasoned client advice across the full project lifecycle from feasibility to handover
• Provide strategic and technical advice on infrastructure delivery, phasing, and risk
• Support the development of business cases, feasibility studies, and delivery strategies
• Develop and maintain strong lasting client relationships
• Develop and manage project execution plans, programmes, and reporting
• Coordinate multiple workstreams including utilities, physical infrastructure, hard and soft landscaping and all enabling works
• Monitor progress against key milestones and manage recovery actions where required
• Manage and coordinate multi-disciplinary design teams (architects, civil and structural, MEP and other specialists)
• Check that infrastructure designs meet the client brief in terms of functionality, regulatory, sustainability and operational needs
• Lead design reviews, value engineering, and buildability assessments
• Manage and enable interfaces between the infrastructure and vertical build phases
• Support procurement strategies for consultants, contractors, and specialists
• Advise on and administer contracts (typically NEC or JCT)
• Manage change control, variations, and commercial impacts
• Monitor cost plans, forecasts, and financial reporting
• Coordinate stakeholder engagement with statutory authorities, utility providers and third parties
• Chair design team meetings, client reviews, and progress workshops
• Act as a key escalation point for project issues, risks, and decisions
• Identify, remove, mitigate or manage infrastructure and delivery risks
• Ensure compliance with client and any other governance requirements
• Implement quality assurance processes across design and construction stages
• Support gateway reviews, audits and assurance activities
• Monitor contractor performance on site
• Support resolution of design, coordination, and interface issues
• Ensure information flow supports construction and commissioning activities
• Coordinate commissioning, testing, and completion of infrastructure systems as appropriate
• Ensure delivery of O&M manuals, asset data, as‑built information, and certifications
• Support transition to the client operational teams

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Evidential experience delivering infrastructure projects
• Experience managing multi‑disciplinary design teams
• Strong client‑facing and communication skills
• Ability to manage complex interfaces and competing stakeholder requirements
• An enquiring and ambitious mind to learn on complex projects and develop problem solving skills
• An ability to get on with all types of individuals and seek to modify approaches as a situation may demand
• Respond confidently to a client request; as well as understanding when to escalate client issues to senior members of the team.
• Provide innovative solutions to improve project delivery.
• Ability to show resilience and resourcefulness in the face of highly complex challenges.
• Commitment to outperforming client expectations.
• Demonstrate a high degree of integrity and ethical standards.
• Provide support to junior team members.
• Show good leadership skills and demonstrable ability to lead, motivate and manage teams including the supply chain.

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Building Services, or similar
• Professional or project management qualification
• Chartered or working toward chartership
• Knowledge of NEC and JCT contracts
• Experience in delivering infrastructure projects for the later development of residential led schemes, mixed-use schemes, offices and more
• Client‑focused and commercially aware
• Strong coordination and leadership skills
• Analytical, organised, and detail‑driven
• Comfortable operating across design and construction phases

Cumming Group is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, "race" (includes nationality, national / ethnic origin, colour), marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, gender assignment, religion and belief.

Note for Recruitment Agencies:

We prefer to hire directly, and we will be in touch with our PSL Agencies if this role is eligible for release.