Project Director

Overview

As Project Director, you will lead the Cockfosters Depot Upgrade for TfL, driving safe, high-quality, and commercially successful delivery across all lifecycle stages. You will guide a multidisciplinary team, manage key stakeholders, and ensure integration between design, construction, testing, and handback. This senior role focuses on delivery certainty, governance, and continuous improvement within a regulated rail context. You will shape outcomes by directing strategy, risk management, and performance across the programme.

Pay / Benefits

• Smart working with up to 40% remote work
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• family-friendly policies with paid maternity/adoption and paternity leave
• pension and share incentive plan
• volunteering leave
• recognition schemes

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of the Cockfosters Depot Upgrade within safety, quality, programme and commercial targets
• Provide visible, inclusive leadership to a multidisciplinary project team
• Build and maintain relationships with TfL, London Underground and delivery partners
• Drive governance, reporting, risk management, change control and assurance activities
• Oversee project controls, programme performance and recovery planning
• Own project financial performance including budget, forecasting, cash flow, and opportunities
• Ensure effective integration across design, construction, testing, commissioning and readiness
• Lead stakeholder engagement and resolve complex project, commercial and operational challenges
• Champion Zero Harm, Right First Time and continuous improvement across project and supply chain
• Develop and support project teams with appropriate capability and succession planning

Key requirements

• Significant experience leading large-scale infrastructure, rail, engineering or construction projects
• Proven track record managing multidisciplinary teams, contractors and supply chain partners
• Excellent commercial and contractual awareness including budget management, forecasting, risk and change control
• Ability to build trusted relationships with clients, senior stakeholders and delivery partners
• Strong leadership, communication and decision-making skills with influence across levels
• Experience in project governance, programme controls, assurance and risk management
• Commitment to safety, inclusion, collaboration and continuous improvement
• Desirable: experience with TfL/London Underground, operational railway environments, depot upgrades, NEC/ECI contracts, testing and handback

• leadership
• communication
• stakeholder management
• project governance
• programme controls
• risk management

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