Engineering Project Manager

Summary: The Engineering Project Manager is responsible for ensuring effective utilization of engineering resources to execute projects efficiently while managing communications and interfaces among various stakeholders. This role requires a strong focus on project scope, risk management, and adherence to engineering delivery processes. The position also involves regular reporting to senior management and fostering collaborative relationships within teams. The candidate must be based in the Manchester office for a minimum of three days a week, with potential for full-time presence based on project needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that Engineering resource requirements are identified and effectively utilised to allow execution of projects in accordance with the project requirements and targeting for maximum productivity and efficiency.
• Ensuring all Engineers fully understand the detailed scope, basis of design, budget and programme requirements of the project.
• Co-ordination of Engineering and Design interfaces between the client and other project partners / supply chain partners.
• Management of contractual communications, supporting progress meetings, risk reduction meetings, cost reports, coordinating multi-disciplinary design teams and running / closing out contract actions.
• Regularly reporting to senior operational management on the performance of the engineering delivery for the project.
• Providing a commercial focus with a high level of challenge on project scope and protecting against uncontrolled scope creep.
• Ensuring effective deployment and use of company engineering delivery processes on projects including engineering design strategy; master deliverable register, project schedule, work/cost breakdown structure; process safety management and engineering governance process.
• Ensuring that key project and programme risks are identified early, and mitigated where possible, with issues and blockers escalated immediately.
• Developing projective relationships by communicating with colleagues and subordinates, developing trust and support and building teams.

Key Skills:

• Significant experience in coordinating multi-discipline teams the various stages of the project life cycle on major contracts.
• Thorough knowledge of the major project delivery process from work winning to project handover.
• Knowledge and understanding of UK technical and regulatory standards and global best practice.
• Strong process safety, quality and environmental leadership focus.
• Significant knowledge and understanding of Project Controls, including Schedule, Cost, Risk and Change Management.
• Collaborative, innovative and agile.
• Experienced customer facing capability with an ability to develop and influence relationships.
• Strong interpersonal skills and an effective communicator (written & verbal).
• Must be able to work from the Manchester Office a minimum 3 days a week and potentially 5 days depending on project security aspects.
• Mobility to travel to client offices, project sites and suppliers.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Manchester

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other