Senior Project Manager

Recruit4staff are proud to be representing their client, a heavy industrial manufacturer, in their search for experienced Senior Project Manager to work in Hebburn, Tyneside

For the successful Senior Project Manager our client is offering:

• Negotiable depending on experience
• Core working hours 8am-4:30pm Monday to Friday
• Permanent Position
• Annual pay rise
• 26 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays
• 7% Employer pension contribution
• Life Assurance
• BUPA Medical Package
• Learning & Development opportunities

The role - Senior Project Manager:

• Senior accountable owner for the relationship with customers
• Working with commercial & defence sector contractors
• Negotiating high value commercial contracts & manging the contract upon agreement
• 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.
• Spend a portion of time on the shop floor keeping in touch with the day-to-day issues
• Senior representative attending customer meeting cover 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 and company standards.
• Represent the company as the project commercial first point of contact .
• Delivering continuous improvement of project management processes and practices.

What our client is looking for in a Senior Project Manager

• Experience of Project Management & Contract Management within a heavy manufacturing / steel fabrication / heavy engineering / ship building environment - ESSENTIAL
• City & Guilds/NVQ in fabrication or welding or similar mechanical engineering trade - BENEFICIAL
• Prince2 Project Management qualifications - BENEFICIAL
• Have a working knowledge of the procedures and processes undertaken in shipyards and knowledge of shipyard trade skills and their scopes of work.
• Proven experience of estimating projects in a heavy engineering environment - ESSENTIAL
• Commercial awareness and experience in working with Customers quantity Surveyors.
• Proven experience of agreeing high value commercial contracts & contract management - ESSENTIAL
• A proven record of high value budget and Earned value management,
• Excellent understanding of commercial finances - ESSENTIAL
• Experience in building and expanding a project team to meet additional demands.
• Experience of defence sector single source contracting and SSRO requirements - BENEFICIAL
• Knowledge of of current legislation relating to the maritime industry - BENEFICIAL

Key skills or similar Job titles: Ship Manager, Project Manager, Senior Project Manager, Operations Manager, Contract Manager, Engineering Manager, Fabrication Manager, Manufacturing Manager, Project Director, Operations Director, Contract Director, Heavy Engineering, Heavy Fabrication, Ship Building, Ship Repair

Commutable From: Newcastle, Sunderland, Middlesborough, Stockton-on-Tees, Darlington, Hartlepool, Northallerton, Carlisle 

For further information about this and other positions please apply now.  

This vacancy is being advertised on behalf of Recruit4staff (NW) Limited who are operating as a recruitment agency, agent, agencies, employment agency or  employment business.

Job Reference: opp-23631