Highways Project Manager - Dartford, Greater London

Highways Project Manager - Dartford, Greater London

Are you an experienced Highways Project Manager looking for your next big challenge? FM Conway’s successful Term Maintenance division is expanding, and we have an exciting opportunity to work on our Lewisham contract. As FM Conway’s Highways Project Manager , you will take ownership of the entire project lifecycle, from planning through to completion, ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of all site activities. This role offers you the opportunity to work at the forefront of project delivery while being supported by an experienced team and collaborative environment. This permanent, full-time position is based from our depot in Dartford, Kent.

The duties of the Highways Project Manager role will include:

- Leading the pre-planning, pre-programming and overall delivery of works, ensuring client satisfaction throughout

- Maintaining seamless coordination between clients, supervisors, and subcontractors to ensure the successful running of sites

- Working closely with the Head of Contracts to effectively communicate and deliver all contract requirements

- Ensuring that the works programme is fully resourced with labour, plant and materials

- Overseeing project performance, ensuring monthly invoicing is accurate and timely

- Managing a team of supervisors ensuring that all works are completed in both a timely and satisfactory standard

What skills and experience do you need?

We are looking for a results-driven Highways Project Manager who has solid experience working on Term Maintenance contracts. You’ll thrive in client-facing environment and have excellent skills in resource planning, cost management and stakeholder engagement. To be considered for this role you will hold a CSCS card, be educated to degree level or equivalent and hold a construction related qualification such as a NVQ Level 6, HNC or HND. This role will involve travel to other company locations therefore, you must be able to drive and possess a full UK driving licence.

What benefits will you receive?

As our Highways Project Manager we will offer you a range of fantastic benefits including career and professional development, 23 days holiday plus bank holidays, life assurance, healthcare, a car allowance, a company bonus, opportunities for internal and external training and access to a wide range of shopping discounts through our Rewarding Great People platform. We will also offer you a range of health and well-being benefits including 24-hour advice lines, and support from our in-house mental health first aiders.

A brief introduction to FM Conway and our Term Maintenance Division

FM Conway is a business of families with over 60 years’ experience of creating sustainable and innovative transportation solutions. We pride ourselves on our core values, creating a culture around Care, Innovation, Integrity and Excellence . The heart of FM Conway has, and always will be, its great people and we are always searching for talented individuals to join our family.

FM Conway has delivered public realm upgrade schemes which has seen a dramatic transformation of the prestigious streets of London. We are lucky to work in partnership with a number of London Boroughs including The City of London, Westminster County Council, Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, Croydon, Kingston, Merton, Camden and many more London boroughs. We have recently won a four-year contract with Brighton and Hove Country Council, delivering civil engineering, carriage resurfacing and improvements and environmental enhancements. We are extremely proud of the work we have carried out to make London safer and more efficient to the public and this role will play a key part in delivering our vision.

So if you would like to Join our Family as our Highways Project Manager then please click ‘apply’ today .

Closing Date: 11/10/2025

FM Conway is an award-winning equal opportunities employer. We recognise that our workforce should reflect our diverse communities and we are proudly committed to creating an inclusive culture in which we celebrate and value individuals from all walks of life. EDI-Strategy

At our heart we are a family that recognises and embraces individuality, so if you are excited about this role but you are unsure if you meet all of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway as you may still be the right candidate for this or another role we are recruiting for.

We look forward to receiving your application!