Engineering Project Manager

Are you and experienced Project Manager or Project Engineer looking for the next step? Do you have experience working in a fast paced engineering/manufacturing environment? If so, our client is a leading manufacturing business who specialise in delivering bespoke equipment for a variety of industries.

Project Manager

Permanent

Engineering & Manufacturing

Immediate start

Global manufacturing organisation

Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Managing projects – up to 15 at a time, between £50k - £1m depending on the project
• Overall responsible for the execution of a project being involved in the initial quotation phase right up to commissioning, handover and project close down.
• Overall responsible for the financial performance and result of the project
• Organizing the project organization while being responsible for the project success and providing strong direction for a small project team.
• Planning and maintaining project schedule by monitoring project progress including the man-hour estimates and margin goals.
• Responsible for reporting of the development in the project to multiple stakeholders (Project Review Meeting, customer).
• Responsible for ensuring that tasks are coordinated and carried out in a manner which is in line with standard practice and procedures and meets with the customer expectations as far as commercially possible.
• Responsible for completion of projects according to scope, cost, quality and schedule – deliver project within budget.
• Responsible for the customer management and satisfaction during the execution of the project
• Responsible for Claim Management & Change order management.
• Responsible to provide project integration within stakeholders.
• Perform Risk Management to mitigate and minimize project risks.
• Capture and evaluate Lessons Learned of a project.
• Create Procurement plan with supply chain to schedule fabrication and component receipt to meet project schedule.
• Lead a small team of project engineers without direct line reporting relation

Your profile and qualifications:

• Degree within engineering.
• Must have experience within a manufacturing, engineering, pharmaceutical, chemical environment.
• The ideal candidate holds a relevant project management education.
• Appliance of project management methodologies and skills in commercial project management.
• More than 3 years’ experience as commercial project manager.
• Knowledge in negotiation and dispute resolution.

Benefits

The basic working week is 39 hours, Monday to Friday

Annual holiday entitlement starts at 25 days with extra days for long service to max 28

Group Income Protection, Death in Service (dependant on being in the pension scheme)

Individual Private medical (after probation period)

Employer contribution to pension scheme of up to 5% of basic salary [subject to you making employee contributions of 4% of basic salary]

Other perks include discounts and cash back, Cycle2work

Working hours:

Flexible working hours, 7am – 9.30am start and 3.30pm – 5.30pm finish

Friday 2.30pm finish