Project Manager (Cabling/ICT Infrastructure)

Project Manager (Cabling/ICT Infrastructure)
Lisboa
Porto Salvo, Lisboa, Portugal

Role Overview

This position is responsible for the
-
- end operational delivery of complex technical projects, ensuring safety, quality, commercial performance, and customer satisfaction from bid stage through to practical completion and
- out. The role requires strong leadership, commercial awareness, and technical credibility within data centre, fibre, and construction/M&E environments.

Key Responsibilities

- Provide visible leadership on Health & Safety, ensuring compliance with all statutory, corporate, and
- specific requirements.

- Deliver projects in line with established ISO standards, governance frameworks, and internal delivery processes.

- Support bid and
- contract activities, contributing technical, commercial, and delivery input to ensure profitable and executable project awards.

- Lead
- commencement planning, including scope validation, methodology review, resourcing, programme development, and risk assessment.

- Manage supply chain engagement, maintaining effective relationships with subcontractors and resolving issues through agreed escalation processes.

- Work closely with commercial functions to ensure subcontractor performance, contractual compliance, and cost control throughout the project lifecycle.

- Identify, manage, and mitigate project risks while recognising and maximising commercial opportunities.

- Lead multidisciplinary delivery teams, setting clear objectives, roles, and accountabilities, and managing performance accordingly.

- Ensure all works are delivered safely, to specification, and in line with agreed programmes.

- Provide accurate and timely
- facing progress reports using approved reporting tools and formats.

- Prepare internal management reports, cost/value reconciliations, programme forecasts, and contract reviews with a focus on accuracy and integrity.

- Maintain strong client relationships through clear communication, expectation management, and delivery excellence.

- Lead projects through to successful completion, including defect resolution, documentation handover, and formal
- out.

- Act as a subject matter expert within relevant technical or sector disciplines.

- Conduct performance reviews, mentoring, and development planning for direct reports.

- Represent the organisation professionally with clients, partners, and stakeholders.

- Maintain strict confidentiality and comply with all data protection and information security requirements.

Essential Skills & Experience

- Extensive experience delivering fibre network installations and associated infrastructure works.

- Minimum 5 years’ experience in a comparable Project Manager role.

- Strong background in data centre, construction, and M&E environments.

- Demonstrable leadership and people management capability.

- Proven commercial awareness, including profit & loss, cost control, and risk management.

- Experience working on international projects or within global delivery environments.

- High level of IT proficiency, including Microsoft Word, Excel, Project, and Power
Point.

- Recognised project management qualification (PMP or equivalent).

- Formal education in Project Management, Engineering, or a related discipline (or significant equivalent trade experience).

- Data centre–specific certification or proven delivery experience in
- critical environments.

- Valid industry and safety certifications (e. g. SMSTS, IOSH Managing Safely, CSCS, ECS).