Senior Project Manager - Healthcare

Job Description

Bring your project management expertise to Ramboll’s UK Healthcare team and help deliver sustainable healthcare building projects across the UK and internationally. You’ll manage day‑to‑day delivery of Ramboll’s engineering advisory and design services on hospital new‑builds, refurbishments and decarbonisation interventions, ensuring projects run to programme, budget and quality.

Bring your project management expertise to Ramboll’s UK Healthcare team and help deliver sustainable healthcare building projects across the UK and internationally. You’ll manage day‑to‑day delivery of Ramboll’s engineering advisory and design services on hospital new‑builds, refurbishments and decarbonisation interventions, ensuring projects run to programme, budget and quality.

This role suits a hands‑on project manager with strong communication skills and practical experience of healthcare building design and construction. You will be the primary client contact on your projects, coordinating multidisciplinary teams and driving effective project controls from feasibility through to handover.

Your new role

As Project Manager — Healthcare you will deliver day‑to‑day project management and client liaison for a portfolio of hospital and healthcare projects across the UK and internationally. You’ll coordinate multidisciplinary design teams, maintain strong project controls, and ensure timely, high‑quality delivery from feasibility through to handover.

We offer flexible working arrangements with candidates able to work from any of our primary offices as well as home. We have an exciting range of ongoing projects including Hillerød Hospital Denmark, Cambridge Children’s Hospital, Kettering General Hospital and KEMH, Falklands Islands.

Key responsibilities

• Manage delivery of engineering advisory and design services across all project stages (feasibility → handover).
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and specialist sub‑consultants (architects, QS, MEP, structural, public health, etc.).
• Maintain project controls: scope, programmes, contracts, change control, risk registers, budgets and QA procedures; ensure these are used by in‑house teams and sub‑consultants.
• Arrange and lead design coordination meetings and technical reviews; prepare minutes, monthly reports and programme updates.
• Ensure internal governance and client contractual requirements are followed.
• Take day‑to‑day responsibility for project activities, including reporting, programme management and client presentations.
• Support discipline leads with resource allocation and task coordination to achieve programme milestones.
• Ensure coordinated, compliant and high‑quality deliverables from project teams and sub‑consultants.
• Represent Ramboll to clients, contractors and stakeholders and help raise the profile of the UK Healthcare team.
• Support bid teams and contribute to multidisciplinary proposals and tender responses.

Key deliverables

• Projects delivered to agreed budget, programme and quality standards.
• Strong, collaborative relationships with clients, contractors and design teams.
• Coordinated design outputs and consistent quality assurance.
• Safe, sustainable and commercially robust solutions.

Your new team

Join a growing, national Healthcare team delivering an ambitious five‑year strategy. Our multidisciplinary group works on everything from long‑term programmes to high‑profile new‑build acute hospitals, creating environments that improve patient care and strengthen NHS services.

Why people join us

• Meaningful impact: work on projects that directly benefit patients, staff and communities.
• Broad portfolio: national and international projects, from estate renewals to large hospital new builds.
• Collaborative culture: partner with leading UK and international architects and multidisciplinary specialists in a design‑driven environment rooted in strong Scandinavian design values.
• Career progression: clear development pathways, chartership support and opportunities to grow technically or into client/project leadership.
• Flexible ways of working: national footprint with the option to be based at any UK office and hybrid working as standard.

About You

• Demonstrable experience managing multidisciplinary UK healthcare projects (new build or refurbishment) and coordinating design/construction teams.
• HNC/HND or equivalent qualification in a relevant discipline.
• MAPM qualification or working towards membership of an appropriate professional body.
• Confident with digital design delivery (Revit/BIM 360) and comfortable coordinating BIM processes.
• Strong project management skills, including programme control, change control, risk management and commercial process management.
• Able to analyse financial information and produce clear, high‑quality reports.
• Excellent communicator with the ability to translate complex technical requirements into clear actions for teams and clients.
• Self‑starter who can work autonomously and manage stakeholders across geographic boundaries.
• Client‑centric approach and a collaborative mindset.

We’ll support your development and career progression. We’re looking for a practical, delivery focused Project Manager who can lead multidisciplinary teams on UK healthcare projects.

What We Can Offer You

Investment in your development

• Leaders you can count on, guided by our Leadership Principles
• Be valued for the unique person you are
• Never be short of inspiration from colleagues, clients, and projects
• The long‑term thinking of a foundation‑owned company
• Be at the forefront of the use of digital tools
• Flexible work environment
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Matched pension contributions
• A host of subsidised benefits including private medical insurance and cycle-to-work

Why join our Healthcare team

Join a growing, high‑impact team where you’ll develop technical expertise, run your own projects and influence our five‑year strategy. You’ll work on varied, high‑profile hospital programmes and collaborate with international colleagues to share best practice and innovative, patient‑centred design solutions.

• Real responsibility: lead projects and multi‑disciplinary teams with visible impact on patient care.
• Career growth: chartership support, dedicated CPD and paths into technical or client leadership.
• Global collaboration: access to Ramboll’s international healthcare network and knowledge exchange.

Work at the heart of sustainable change

Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering and consultancy company. We believe that the purpose of sustainable change is to create a thriving world for both nature and people. So, that’s where we start – and how we work. At Ramboll, our core strength is our people, and our history is rooted in a clear vision of how a responsible company should act. Being open and curious is a cornerstone of our culture. We embrace an inclusive mindset that looks for fresh, diverse, and innovative perspectives. We respect, embrace, and invite diversity in all forms to actively cultivate an environment where everyone can flourish and realise their full potential.

Ramboll in the United Kingdom

Founded in Denmark, Ramboll is a foundation‑owned people company. Ramboll has a proven track record of sustainable and responsible business and is a top ten engineering and environmental and sustainability consultancy in the UK, with around 2,000 employees across 16 offices working towards a more sustainable future. Ramboll experts deliver innovative solutions across Buildings, Transport, Environment & Health, and Energy. Strong values guide what we do and drive an inclusive, collaborative, and highly flexible culture that values people and ideas. Explore and nurture your own passion, expertise, and creativity at Ramboll through work that benefits our people, partners, nature, and society.

An equal opportunity employer

Equality, diversity, and inclusion is at the heart of what we do. At Ramboll, we believe that diversity is a strength and that different experiences and perspectives are essential to creating truly sustainable societies. We are committed to providing an inclusive and supportive work environment, where everyone is able to flourish and reach their potential. We invite applications from candidates of all backgrounds and characteristics, in addition to the Protected Characteristics as set out in the Equality Act, (2010). As a Disability Confident Committed employer, Ramboll ensures opportunities are accessible to candidates with disabilities. We also know how important it is to achieve the right balance of where, when, and how much you work. When you join Ramboll, you’ll have the ability to work your hours flexibly through our positive and inclusive approach to work.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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