Project Manager - Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom - Perfect Katch Ltd

Description

Our client is developing innovative and exciting projects within the transport sector, connecting local communities, and encouraging economic growth. Sustainability is at the heart of what they do.

The purpose of this role is to deliver vehicle design and build projects efficiently and effectively ensuring the key objectives of time, cost, quality & customer satisfaction are achieved.

The project manager will be responsible for creating the plan, arrange activity to deliver the plan, monitor progress against the plan and make effective decisions to deliver the plan on time and within budget.

The role activity requires the person to havea general understanding and comfort with H&S, commercial, finance, deliverables management and client communication.

The role necessitates comfort with talking to and reporting progress to internal and external stakeholders.


Responsibilities:

• Take responsibility from commercial handover and to be fully accountable for the effective delivery of assigned projects
• To plan all aspects of projects clearly identifying key engineering milestone dates. Also, to identify stage gates that trigger invoicing milestones
• To liaise with project finance accountant to control costs and maintain as sold margin position as a minimum
• Arrange & lead regular formal project reviews
• Manage and deliver project and programme documentation to required standard
• Prepare and issue weekly project updates to senior team
• Attend design review meetings, monitoring the designs to ensure the clients' expectations are being adequately considered.
• To effectively communicate with Internal & External customer
• Attend client sites and client meetings as required throughout the duration of the contract. This may involve assessing progress, H&S arrangements and effectiveness of facility installation (if facility installation is required)
• Work with the Commercial Manager/Project Finance Accountant ensuring all contract variations (changes to original work scope) are negotiated in terms of cost and planned into the programme and changes in milestones are (re)negotiated with the internaland client team(s).
• Communication is a key part of the role. The person will be comfortable with and expected to ensure that all relevant programme activity is effectively communicated, authorised and recorded.

Required Qualification, Skills and Experience:

• Required Qualifications, Skills & Experience
• A 'can do' attitude and ability to lead with enthusiasm and presence.
• Be confident and have a positive, professional, attitude
• Ideally hold a recognised project management qualification
• Minimum of 5 years' experience of managing projects within vehicle build sector [rail or automotive preferable]
• Ability to think analytically and solve problems.
• Engineering knowledge. Whilst not having to be an engineer by training, having a knowledge of vehicle engineering and vehicle assembly is a definitive advantage.
• Proactive forward thinker
• Committed and able to work under own initiative
• Excellent team player and team builder
• Excellent communication skills

• Flexible

• The project manager is expected to travel to the various sites
• MS proficient

This is a great opportunity for a Project Manager to join a really interesting and varied business and to get fully involved in exciting and innovative projects.

This role is full time 35 hours a week, worked between the core business hours Monday to Friday 8.00am - 6.00pm, the company offers 25 days holiday + holiday purchase scheme, 5% pension contribution, Summer Hours, and other yearly initiatives.

The companyhas a very friendly working culture, and their Employee Voice team frequently arranges social and fundraising activities.

• If you are already registered with Perfect Katch Ltd, then please contact us to discuss suitability for this position.

Perfect Katch Ltd acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Business Regulations 2003.

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