Project Manager

Join Our Project Quality Manager Talent Community - Shape the Future of the UK's Most Ambitious Projects ✨
Are you a Project Quality Manager with exceptional stakeholder skills and a passion for delivering excellence? Are you ready to join Laing O'Rourke and contribute to some of the biggest and most complex building and infrastructure projects in the UK?
Over The Next 6–9 Months (April – June 2026), We Expect To Begin Engaging PQMs For a Range Of Major Projects And Portfolios Across Multiple Sectors, Including
Healthcare | Life Sciences | Data Centres | Power | Water | Defence
If you have experience in any of our core industries — Healthcare, Science & Research, Data Centres, Rail, Nuclear / Power Transmission & Distribution, Defence, Aviation or Prisons — we'd love you to join our Project Quality Manager Talent Pool so we can keep you updated on new opportunities throughout 2025 and into 2026.
As a Project Quality Manager (PQM) at Laing O'Rourke, you'll be at the heart of major engineering programmes. You'll lead the charge on quality assurance and control, embedding a get it right first time culture and ensuring our teams deliver the exceptional outcomes our clients expect.
Your work will directly influence operational excellence, customer satisfaction, and the integrity of some of the UK's most prestigious projects.
Implement and champion the Quality Management System.
Act as the key Quality contact for stakeholders, including certification bodies.
Lead a culture of quality, continuous improvement, and proactive risk identification.
Deliver training, inductions and toolbox talks to uplift productivity, safety, and quality.
Review and guide quality-critical documentation (Quality Plans, ITPs, Method Statements, etc.).
Monitor and analyse Non-Conformances, driving corrective actions and root cause analysis.
Lead/support the Quality Incident Event Process for Category 1 NCRs.
Leverage digital construction tools to support lifetime quality records and reporting.
Ensure the creation and management of LTQR documentation, maintaining the golden thread.
Manage requirements across the project lifecycle, ensuring clarity and compliance.
Represent Quality with clients and key stakeholders, reporting performance and KPIs.
Mentor Quality Engineers and foster strong cross-functional relationships.
Support audits, certifications, lessons learned, and pan-Hub quality initiatives.
Contribute to strategic quality improvements aligned with organisational goals.
10+ years' experience in Quality (governance, assurance, compliance, improvement, leadership)
~ Experience in high-assurance sectors (Nuclear, Rail, Energy, Healthcare, etc.)
~ Digital construction and assurance system experience (Fieldview, Asite, Trimble)
~ Ability to work under pressure in complex project environments

We are an international engineering and construction organisation with over 150 years of heritage , delivering landmark buildings and infrastructure across the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Our reputation is built on certainty, reliability and quality — and on the passion, ambition and teamwork of our people.
We are proudly a Disability Confident Employer , offering inclusive recruitment and workplace adjustments to support candidates with long-term health conditions or disabilities.
Join our Project Quality Manager Talent Community today to receive updates on roles as they arise across 2025 — and to be first in line for opportunities launching between April and June 2026 .
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'.