Senior Project Manager (Shropshire) - Circa £75K (Exclusive)
Responsible for thoroughly understanding, reviewing and communicating multiple project requirements to appropriate team members and managing all stakeholder requirements accordingly. As a Senior Project Manager, you will also be expected to lead a portfolio of complex, high-value projects.
Responsibilities
* Collect all contractual obligations, commercial & technical information available from the sales & proposal stage
* Be responsible to thoroughly understand, review and communicate stakeholder requirements to appropriate team members and manage all requirements accordingly to realise them for the stakeholders
* Establish clear ownership for project tasks, ensure that team members have the tools needed, provide timely feedback
* Lead resource planning and engagement with Engineering Teams to have the proper resources available, schedule and assign all the project tasks according to the contractual obligations and customer's expectations
* Maintain effective communication and working relationships with customers and project team members
* Proactively communicate project status, issues & risks to Directors
* Conduct regular status meetings with all stakeholders, keeping the stakeholder's needs and requirements continuously in view
* Troubleshoot technical issues when the need arises and escalating appropriately as needed
* Facilitate productivity by ensuring that the team has tools to succeed
* Monitor and control stage payments & costs that need to stay within contract obligations & budget limits. Including approval of payments to subcontractors and buyouts suppliers
* Manage the documentation exchange (soft and hardware copies) as per contract keeping trace with official document list and dedicated transmittals
* Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality and customer goals
* Secure the quality and timely delivery of goods and components through expediting activities
* Organise and attend FAT verifying the full availability of contract goods and needed documentation and instrumentation. Obtain from the customer the signed final acceptance certificate
* Organise and attend to site meetings and surveys with the customer
* Responsible for the change order management, engaging also into negotiation with customers for additional price recognition
* Follow up the project during installation and commissioning stage with particular focus on activities schedule and H&S topics
* Mentor and support junior team members, including project managers and project co-ordinators
* Other duties as required
Qualifications
* University Degree in Electrical Electronic Engineering
* Formal qualification in Project Managing
Required Skills
* Proficiency in MS Office and MS Project is required
* Excellent verbal and written English language skills
* Experience as proposal / sales engineer, proposal manager, project manager, procurement manager
* Familiarity with the Automation industry is a must
* Willing to travel for approximately 25% of the time throughout UK, occasional overseas travel
Preferred Skills
* Being a great team player as well as the ability to work off own initiative
* Excellent communication skills, both oral & written
* Confident and pro-active with an organised approach to work
* Situational adaptability
* Good problem solver
* Hands on attitude
* Enthusiastic and able to be relied upon
Package - Circa £75K basic
Project ID - 7713