Environmental Surveys Project Manager

We are seeking an Environmental Surveys Project Manager to play a central role in the safe, coordinated delivery of environmental surveys.

You will connect technical specialists, survey teams, health and safety colleagues, land and site access teams, GIS professionals, and project leaders, ensuring everyone has clear information at the right time.

Key responsibilities:

• Own and maintain an integrated survey programme, aligning scope, access permissions, health and safety preparation, digital tools, seasonal constraints, and commercial requirements.
• Develop practical scheduling and mobilisation processes and communicate clear expectations to technical leads and survey teams.
• Coordinate survey readiness, including access, briefings, tested proformas, data-quality arrangements, and escalation routes.
• Work with health and safety colleagues to establish effective survey processes, including risk assessments, briefings, incident reporting, and training requirements.
• Partner with GIS and technical teams to ensure digital tools, survey proformas, and data-capture requirements are practical and ready for use.
• Agree data quality, checking, sign-off, storage, version control, and handover arrangements with technical leads.
• Maintain a live record of risks, assumptions, issues, and decisions, escalating emerging concerns and proposing practical mitigations.
• Monitor programme logic, critical-path impacts, budgets, forecasts, and change, including support for early warnings where required.
• Act as a single point of coordination during survey delivery, supporting a safe, inclusive environment in which team members can raise concerns and contribute ideas.

Requirements:

• Experience coordinating complex programmes, projects, or field-based activities involving several teams and dependencies.
• A strong commitment to health and safety, wellbeing, and inclusive ways of working, with the confidence to escalate concerns appropriately.
• Clear communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to bring technical and non-technical colleagues together.
• Strong planning and organisational skills, including the ability to manage changing priorities, risks, assumptions, and decisions.
• Experience monitoring programme progress and budgets, forecasting impacts, and supporting change management.
• An understanding of data-quality processes and confidence working with digital tools or GIS colleagues; specialist GIS expertise is not required.
• A proactive, practical approach to solving problems and improving processes.