Project Manager
Posted Today by New Resource Group
£50 Per hour
Undetermined
Undetermined
Melksham, Wiltshire
Summary: The Project Manager role involves leading a critical operational programme within a UK-based manufacturing environment, overseeing a complex, multi-phase project that requires cross-functional coordination. The successful candidate will ensure project activities are delivered safely, on time, and within budget while maintaining stakeholder alignment. This high-visibility position demands strong leadership and structured programme management capabilities. Occasional international travel is required to align with group stakeholders and technical partners.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and coordinate a structured operational change programme across manufacturing functions
- Manage project plans covering equipment, assets, workflows, and process transitions
- Work closely with engineering, production, supply chain, quality, and senior stakeholders
- Oversee timelines, budgets, risk registers, and mitigation strategies
- Coordinate external suppliers, contractors, and specialist partners
- Ensure compliance with health, safety, and regulatory standards
- Manage logistics and sequencing of technical activities to minimise operational disruption
- Provide clear reporting to senior leadership on progress, risks, and delivery milestones
- Support knowledge transfer and operational readiness activities
- Travel occasionally to international locations to align with group stakeholders and technical partners
Key Skills:
- Proven experience delivering complex industrial or manufacturing projects
- Background in machinery installation, equipment relocation, or operational change programmes highly desirable
- Strong understanding of manufacturing environments and engineering processes
- Demonstrable experience managing multi-disciplinary stakeholders
- Comfortable operating within sensitive or business-critical programmes
- Structured approach to risk, budget, and timeline control
- Confident communicator with the ability to influence at senior level
- Willingness to travel internationally on occasion
- Highly organised and delivery-focused
- Calm under pressure
- Commercially aware
- Professional and discreet
- Able to balance strategic oversight with practical execution
Salary (Rate): £50/hour
City: Melksham
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Project Manager
Location: UK (with occasional international travel)
Sector: Advanced Manufacturing / Industrial Engineering
Job Type: Permanent
We are recruiting for an experienced Project Manager to lead a strategically important operational programme within a UK-based manufacturing environment.
This role will oversee a complex, multi-phase project involving equipment, processes, and cross-functional coordination. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring activities are delivered safely, on time, and within budget, while maintaining operational continuity and stakeholder alignment.
This is a high-visibility role requiring strong leadership, discretion, and structured programme management capability.
The Role
Reporting into senior leadership, you will:
- Lead and coordinate a structured operational change programme across manufacturing functions
- Manage project plans covering equipment, assets, workflows, and process transitions
- Work closely with engineering, production, supply chain, quality, and senior stakeholders
- Oversee timelines, budgets, risk registers, and mitigation strategies
- Coordinate external suppliers, contractors, and specialist partners
- Ensure compliance with health, safety, and regulatory standards
- Manage logistics and sequencing of technical activities to minimise operational disruption
- Provide clear reporting to senior leadership on progress, risks, and delivery milestones
- Support knowledge transfer and operational readiness activities
- Travel occasionally to international locations to align with group stakeholders and technical partners
What We’re Looking For
Proven experience delivering complex industrial or manufacturing projects
Background in machinery installation, equipment relocation, or operational change programmes highly desirable
Strong understanding of manufacturing environments and engineering processes
Demonstrable experience managing multi-disciplinary stakeholders
Comfortable operating within sensitive or business-critical programmes
Structured approach to risk, budget, and timeline control
Confident communicator with the ability to influence at senior level
Willingness to travel internationally on occasion
Key Attributes
Highly organised and delivery-focused
Calm under pressure
Commercially aware
Professional and discreet
Able to balance strategic oversight with practical execution
This is an opportunity to play a key role in delivering a significant operational programme within a well-established manufacturing organisation.