Project Leader

Project Director - MEP Major/Mega Projects Crown House Technologies | Part of Laing O'Rourke Crown House Technologies (CHt), the specialist MEP business within Laing O'Rourke, is seeking exceptional Project Directors to lead the successful delivery of major healthcare, data centre and life sciences projects valued in excess of £1bn, with MEP packages ranging from £250m-£300m+.

These career-defining opportunities will see you take end-to-end responsibility for the delivery of world-class facilities, from early client engagement and pre-construction through to commissioning, handover and operational readiness. Current and future projects include major healthcare schemes, hyperscale data centre campuses and nationally significant science and research infrastructure programmes.

The Opportunity As Project Director, you will provide strategic leadership across all aspects of project delivery, leading large multidisciplinary teams and complex supply chains to safely deliver high-quality, commercially successful outcomes.

Working as part of the senior leadership team, you will be accountable for project performance, stakeholder engagement, engineering excellence, commercial success and client satisfaction on projects where certainty of delivery is critical.

What You'll Bring

• Proven experience leading major MEP packages valued at £150m+ within projects exceeding £500M.
• A successful track record delivering complex healthcare, data centre, life sciences, mission-critical infrastructure or high assurance projects.
• Outstanding leadership capability with experience managing large-scale project teams and specialist supply chains.
• Strong commercial acumen and stakeholder management expertise.
• Mechanical, Electrical or related engineering qualifications, supported by extensive major project delivery experience.
• A passion for safety, innovation, quality and operational excellence.

Why Crown House Technologies? Backed by over 40 years of engineering excellence, CHt is one of the UK's leading MEP contractors, combining direct delivery capability, advanced manufacturing, digital engineering and DfMA to deliver certainty on the industry's most complex projects.

With a significant secured pipeline and a reputation for delivering infrastructure that shapes communities, advances science and powers the digital economy, there has never been a more exciting time to join our business.

Lead landmark projects. Deliver engineering excellence. Build a lasting legacy. About Us Laing O'Rourke 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. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

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