Project Manager

Job title: Project Manager

Location: Wakefield

Salary: Circa £40k but negotiable

Our client designs, manufactures and installs bespoke automation industrial machinery. They are a market leader in being creative & innovative.

A fantastic new opportunity has risen within their Projects team.

Purpose of the role:

Responsible for overseeing the successful execution of all aspects of assigned project delivery including liaising with customers, capturing customer requirements, supporting the project team and working in partnership with colleagues to deliver on commitments.

Key Responsibilities:

- Assist the design lead to establish project objectives, procedures, data collection methods

- Prepare scheduled and necessary updates of project activities and analysis of manpower and equipment required
- Create and administer appropriate testing protocols to monitor project performance
- Communicate promptly all project schedule changes, and work closely with the relevant stakeholders to ensure requirements are met
- Maintain budgetary, scheduling, and project oversight, and report regularly to head of
project, on job progress, plans and problems that could significantly affect costs or schedules
- Manage compliance, quality control, and quality assurance standards and specifications
- Identifying and managing the resolution of engineering change requests and product improvements, taking full accountability and responsibility for changes on released products
- Reviewing, maintaining and updating related product technical documentation (including but limited to Manuals, BoM's, install guides, FAT & SAT checklists)
- Providing engineering product support, especially during design, installation & commissioning phases
- Proactively supporting Engineering Supply Chain with engineering detail, including acceptance testing, and order specification
- Enabling and facilitating new processes in the team
- Acting as the focal point for early phase of development of new products
- Leading urgent engineering project to address technical issues and to prevent any program delay
- Preparation for and management of all project phases and project deliverables, including: Project Briefs; Project -Management Plans (PMP); project schedules; project budgets; and maintenance of tracking registers.

More responsibilities to be discussed upon successful application.

Key Skills:

- Have the ability to discuss and understand technically the finer details of various disciplines related to machinery automation & software with particular strengths at supporting the interfaces between disciplines
- Must thrive in a fast paced environment
- Must have worked within engineering, controls or an electrical environment and be conversant with AutoCAD or similar packages.
- Strong understanding of Project Management Methodology
- Knowledge of MSP or similar
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to establish key relationships
- Ability to deliver exceptional customer service
- Exposure in dealing with multiple concurrent customers/suppliers
- Experience of working within a complex multi-disciplined environment
- Experience of working to tight deadlines and meeting customer expectations
- Ability to provide quality information within deadlines
- Empathy with other functions and projects
- Good communication skills, confident and capable in client facing role
- Team-player and ability to work on own initiative
- Attention to detail

Benefits:

- Westfield Health plan
- Company sick pay
- Competitive annual leave
- Holiday exchange scheme
- Annual company bonus
- Contribution pension scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexible working hours
- Company workwear
- Subsidised PPE
- Generous cashback employee referral scheme

Qualifications:

- Minimum HNC qualified in relevant electrical or mechanical engineering discipline (Desirable)
- Project Management qualification