Programme Lead - Early Works

About the Role

We have an exciting permanent opportunity for a Programme Lead to manage senior direct reports, provide effective leadership, and champion a continuous‑improvement culture to ensure excellence in delivery against plans. • Manage major programme delivery aligned with strategic objectives. • Establish people, process, information, and technology environments. • Build high‑performing teams and develop specialist capability. • Represent the programme to clients and stakeholders. • Maintain safety, quality, cost, and governance standards. • Oversee controls, reporting, and lessons‑learned processes. • Ensure commercial, ethical, and regulatory compliance. • Safety first: champion a safe, diverse, and inclusive environment prioritising wellbeing. • Create opportunity: foster continuous improvement and inspire people to develop and excel.

Key Responsibilities

• ▸programme delivery
• ▸technology enablement
• ▸reporting controls
• ▸compliance
• ▸client liaison
• ▸safety management

What You Bring

Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to unlock potential in every person or project and redefine the boundaries of ambition. Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey. • Extensive infrastructure sector experience delivering major programmes end‑to‑end. • Proven leadership of large, multidisciplinary teams in early programme stages. • Strong strategic capability to shape programmes and drive performance. • Professional membership with solid understanding of land, CPO, and regulatory environments. • Client focus: own quality of deliverables, strategic outcomes, and build long‑term client relationships.

Requirements

• ▸infrastructure
• ▸leadership
• ▸strategic
• ▸professional membership
• ▸client focus

Benefits

We are open to discussing part‑time, flexible, and hybrid working arrangements where suitable for the role.

Work Environment

Onsite