technical project manager Glasgow, Scotland
Aggreko
Full Time
Glasgow, Scotland
54085 - 44456 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
At Aggreko, we provide energy solutions so communities can thrive and businesses can grow. We bring power, heat and cooling to customers and communities wherever they need it. We are hiring immediately for two Project Managers - roles that will help us to power progress for our customers.
Why Aggreko? Here are some of the perks and rewards.
- A competitive salary and benefits package (including but not limited to pension plan, bonus scheme, and Life Assurance)
- Hybrid working
- Generous holiday entitlement, with option to ‘buy’ or ‘sell‘
- A focus on continued personal development
- Discounts & perks
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Paid time off work for volunteering in the community
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme, which helps promote and support a healthy lifestyle
What you’ll do:
- Shape and ensure the definition of projects; identifying and communicating with stakeholders to ensure project alignment with other key business objectives; project team structures are clearly defined and appropriately resourced.
- Build and deliver appropriate project, milestone, sprint plans; communicating to stakeholders to maintain visibility of targets, goals and progress.
- Own the issue and risk management process and log; determine the appropriate mitigation levels for the phases of the project by using the standard Aggreko project controls.
- Project Execution and leadership of the project team, ensuring team members are highly accountable for their streams or work assignments and that dependencies and resource conflicts across the project streams are well managed.
- Defining resource dependencies across the ATS teams, business contributors & external partners.
- Managing project demands; intercepting issues and implementing countermeasures as required.
- Facilitate and schedule all key project gate reviews to ensure that the required level of management control is in place.
- Status reporting on progress to plan; communicate key risks and issues to the PMO, Project Team and to Business stakeholders. Presenting information on project outcomes; successes and challenges on a timely basis and shaped to the relevant audience.
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement through structured projects review and working within the project management team to improve processes and quality standards.
Sounds like you? Here’s what you’ll need to demonstrate:
Professional Skills / Experience / Qualifications
- Degree qualified in a relevant field is a plus
- 3-4 years’ experience in a Technology project management role
- Experience of different delivery methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall or Hybrid approaches.
- APM or Prince 2 certification - foundation (practitioner desirable)
- Proven stakeholder management skills
- Experience in executing Waterfall / Agile projects / Hybrid methodologies
- Structured approach to problem solving and improvement planning
- Able to work under pressure and to tight timelines
- The capability to support the creation of a business case to secure future investment
- Experience of delivering technical projects in an enterprise environment – blue chip experience a plus
- Experience of working on vendors selection for products/platforms
- Managing the delivery of applications into an organisation an advantage
Personal skills / Experience
- Change orientation – describes how an individual identifies the need for improvement and change.
- Drive for results – a deep seated inner desire to compete against standards of excellence and achieve “step changes” in business results.
- Holding people accountable – the ability to give clear and unambiguous direction to individuals and teams about what they need to do to meet the organizations objectives.
- Building capability - developing individuals and groups to increase the capability of the whole organisation.
- Compelling Communication – recognizing that clear communication is the key to understanding.
- Leading others – the ability to create a compelling vision of the future and to provide inspiration, clarity, and direction.
- Customer Insight – the ability to understand the markets that customers operate in, to use this to identify underlying needs and then to apply this in a way that gives Aggreko a competitive advantage.
- Strategic Thinking - the ability to identify patterns or connections between information and situations that are not obviously related and to identify key or underlying issues in a complex picture.
- Willingness to undertake international travel.
The people you’ll work with:
- Business Analysts
- Testers
- Process Owners
- Business Leads
- Technology teams, (Developers, Security analysts, Architects, Infrastructure
Interested?
Please describe in your CV the methodologies that you applied in project management, the size of the project teams and the level of your stakeholders.
Please describe in your CV the methodologies that you applied in project management, the size of the project teams and the level of your stakeholders.
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About Aggreko
We welcome people from different backgrounds and cultures, and respect people’s unique skills, attitudes and experiences. We encourage everyone to be themselves at work because we know that’s how we do our best, for each other, for our customers, for the communities where we work, and for our careers.
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans.
Aggreko
www.aggreko.com
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Blair Illingworth
$2 to $5 billion (USD)
1001 to 5000 Employees
Company - Public
Energy & Utilities
1986
