Position: Senior Project Manager
Location: Birkenhead, Merseyside
Package: To £85,000 per annum + Benefits
Hours: 40 hours per week (Monday – Friday)
Contract: Permanent
Corker Wallace Resourcing is a specialist recruitment and resource management consultancy dedicated to supporting major infrastructure projects across the UK and beyond. With a deep understanding of the sector’s evolving workforce needs, we streamline recruitment processes, optimise talent acquisition, and offer strategic workforce planning tailored to the demands of public sector, private sector, and joint venture/partnerships operating in the delivery of major projects.
We are delighted to be working in partnership and in collaboration with 4Sure Recruitment, a specialist provider of engineering staff in the Wirral, to recruit a Senior PM/Head of Project for the manufacturing / construction hall areas of our client’s business.
A famous name in industry in the North West of England, our client has a long tradition of delivering complex projects in the marine and defence sectors and has an urgent requirement to supplement their project management leadership capability.
Role & responsibilities –: Senior Project Manager – Manufacturing / Construction Hall
* Senior accountable owner for the relationship with customers, such as MoD and Military new build, manufacturing prime contractors.
* Collaboration and liaison with other Project Managers and members of the senior leadership team.
* Ability to take ownership and accountability of allocated projects to ensure delivery of the technical and financial performance whilst having the backing of a supportive team and working closely with the senior leadership.
* Ensuring design, engineering and stringent quality standards are maintained.
* Accountable for project wide estimating covering all aspects such as technical development, supply chain, risks, variations including additional scope etc.
* Senior representative attending customer meetings, covering all project aspects and levels of seniority within the customer organisation.
* Interface conduit for production, technical and quality areas to ensure effective project management, visibility and controls.
* Lead the project team and manage the supply chain to deliver projects to time, meeting cost and quality targets.
* Represent the company as the project commercial first point of contact.
* Delivering continuous improvement of project management processes and practices.
About you
* Experience of leading projects from inception to completion, covering Estimating, Technical, Financial, Stakeholder Management.
* Must have a working knowledge of the procedures and processes undertaken in shipyards and knowledge of shipyard trade skills and their scopes of work.
* Commercial awareness and experience in working with Customers quantity Surveyors.
* Knowledge of current legislation relating to the maritime/marine/defence industry is desirable.
* Demonstrate knowledge of estimating projects in a heavy engineering environment.
* Preferable experience of MoD single source contracting and SSRO requirements.
* Experience in building and expanding a project team to meet additional demands.
* Maintaining a good proactive working relationship while placing the development of the project team at the forefront of your working style.
For a confidential conversation about this opportunity, please contact me by email on paul.johnston@corkerwallace.co.uk or by phone on 07712 586134