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I am seeking a Senior Project Manager to join my client; a large heavy engineering company looking for a Senior Project Manager to ensure all assigned projects are properly planned, budgeted organised, directed, monitored and controlled to safely meet customer requirements and agreed timescales and company financial objectives.

The Senior Project manager will be responsible for reporting to the Director of Customer Programmes, Dotted line report to Head of Project Management & Director of Production Planning. They will be working on very exciting projects to supply into industries such as: Defence, US Defence/Offshore, Steel Proc & Plant/General.

Responsibility of job:

· Be the prime customer point of contact manage relationships with all stakeholders

· Ensure project governance is in place to resolve operational issues and progress outstanding actions

· Provide leadership for the cross functional team (Sales, Technical, Quality, Production) with accountabilities for successful delivery of the customer project

· External supply chain management to ensure externally sourced parts and services are delivered on time and to cost and quality requirements

Tasks of the job:

· Provide input to the appropriate Sales Manager for quotation letters and pre-contract activities to ensure they reflect customer priorities and previous learning

· Maintain a close working relationship with key customer stakeholders to identify project requirements and critical delivery dates and plans

· Represent the Company at external customer meetings and facilitate customer communications to resolve issues and develop shared plans and objectives

· Ensure a regular cycle of project review governance meetings to meet the requirements of external customers at all levels

· Manage all assigned project activity through a multifunctional project team to could include technical, quality, operations, planning, finance, and purchasing

· Lead the pre-contract internal review process to ensure potential issues are raised early and mitigation actions put in place

· Manage project budgets and plans to deliver OTIF and to budget

· Manage issues and risks proactively to minimise any adverse impact on the project schedule or cost

· Ensure actions are decisions are in place to deliver projects to customer requirements

· Establish effective change control processes to manage customers’ needs as the project evolves and maintain effective budget and margin control

· Work closely with the production planning and operational teams to ensure customer priorities are reflected in the various project schedules, resource and equipment plans

· Coordinate quality inspection reviews

· Ensure all documentation is in place to minimise issues associated with NCRs and concessions

· Generate status reports and update KPIs

· Demonstrate the highest ethical standards and exemplifies the company values and behaviours

Person Specification:

Desirable Qualifications

· Engineering Degree

· Prince 2 practitioner (or equivalent)

Skills & knowledge required

Essential:

· Proven track record for planning, executing, controlling, and closing projects

· Ability to manage multiple large complex projects simultaneously

· Extensive knowledge of project/programme management principles, tools, and techniques

· Excellent problem structuring and solving skills

· Excellent commercial acumen and the ability to make decisions on difficult and ambiguous issues

· Excellent communication skills (oral and written)

· Appreciation of QA, inspections, testing, and documentation requirements

· Highly proficient IT skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Project

Advantageous:

· Successful track record of leading and delivering large-scale complex technical projects/programmes

· Previous responsibility for budgets, involvement in budget setting, and good working knowledge of financial processes

· Previous experience of building relationships with customers and suppliers and sustaining these relationships through difficult contract performance reviews and negotiations

· Experience of managing to KPIs and establishing project control mechanisms

· Strong risk management skills and experience

Essential Personal qualities:

· Attention to detail

· Able to lead and direct others without direct authority

Our client are offering a generous benefit package which includes 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, Westfield health, company pension, Monday - Friday days regular with opportunity one day working from home and on site parking.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £55,000.00-£65,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Private medical insurance
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Sheffield, South Yorkshire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Project Management: 5 years (preferred)

Work Location: In person