Senior Project Manager

This newly created role reflects KEO s ambition to strengthen our capability supporting clients in delivering waste infrastructure projects.

As Regional Waste Infrastructure Lead, you will guide clients through the full infrastructure development lifecycle, from early-stage feasibility and concept design to construction supervision and final handover.

You ll work across a wide range of projects involving thermal, mechanical, biological, and chemical treatment processes.

The successful candidate will report directly to the Director of Waste Management and play a key role in shaping and growing KEO s capability in this critical sector.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain trusted partnerships with clients.
• Lead regional and international projects as Project Manager or Project Director, ensuring alignment with local regulations, environmental policies, and stakeholder priorities.
• Provide expert advice on treatment technologies and processes suited to local conditions and market drivers, supported by our global technical network.
• Act as a trusted Technical Advisor to public and private sector clients on the delivery of waste infrastructure.
• Lead feasibility, due diligence and options appraisals, develop basis-of-design documentation, and support procurement and investment decision-making.
• Ensure compliance with best practice, health and safety standards, regulations, and user requirements - within defined cost and time limits.
• Prepare, review, and approve technical specifications; evaluate tender documents; and provide technical input across all project phases, from design and construction to commissioning and handover.
• Coordinate across disciplines, review subcontractor work, and guide junior engineers in their professional development.