Project Manager in North Shields

Baltic Recruitment are delighted to be continuing our partnership with OsecoElfab, a global manufacturer specialising in engineered rupture discs and explosion venting solutions for high-hazard industrial environments to assist with their search for a Project Manager.

Key Duties

• Lead customer-facing major project execution from order acceptance through to delivery, documentation completion, shipment, and project close‑out.
• Act as the primary project interface between OsecoElfab and the customer’s project team, including EPC contractors, end‑user representatives, inspectors, and appointed third‑party stakeholders.
• Translate customer project requirements into clear internal actions, deliverables, schedules, responsibilities, and communication plans.
• Develop and maintain project plans, milestone schedules, action trackers, risk registers, communication records, and project status reports.
• Coordinate internal project activities across Commercial, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Planning, Logistics, and Finance.
• Ensure technical, quality, documentation, inspection, certification, testing, packaging, shipping, and commercial requirements are understood and delivered.
• Monitor project progress against customer milestones, contractual commitments, internal delivery dates, and agreed project deliverables.
• Identify project risks, constraints, and bottlenecks early, ensuring mitigation actions are agreed, owned, tracked, and escalated where required.
• Manage customer-facing project changes, including scope clarification, schedule impacts, documentation changes, inspection changes, and commercial variation requests.
• Support structured project reviews, customer progress meetings, internal project meetings, and formal project close‑out reviews.

Internal Cross‑Functional Coordination

• Drive alignment between internal functions to ensure customer project requirements are delivered in a coordinated and controlled manner.
• Work closely with Commercial and Sales teams to ensure customer commitments, contractual requirements, and project expectations are clearly understood.
• Coordinate Engineering deliverables, technical clarification responses, drawing approvals, design reviews, and customer documentation submissions.
• Work with Quality to ensure inspection and test plans, certification, compliance requirements, customer hold points, and final documentation packs are delivered on time.
• Partner with Supply Chain to monitor supplier deliverables, special material requirements, outsourced processes, and vendor documentation.
• Coordinate with Manufacturing and Planning to ensure production schedules, capacity constraints, testing requirements, and shipment dates are visible and managed.
• Ensure project actions are clearly assigned, followed up, and closed in line with agreed project timing.

Customer Communication & Stakeholder Management

• Provide clear, timely, and professional communication to customer project teams on project status, risks, actions, and required decisions.
• Prepare and issue customer‑facing project reports, meeting agendas, minutes, action logs, and progress updates.
• Manage customer expectations around schedule, documentation, technical clarifications, inspection points, and delivery commitments.
• Act as the escalation point for project coordination issues, ensuring concerns are resolved quickly and constructively.
• Represent OsecoElfab in customer project meetings, internal leadership reviews, and cross‑functional project forums.

General Project Management

• Support the delivery of capital machinery projects, internal operational improvement projects, and new product development projects as required.
• Apply consistent project management principles including scope definition, planning, governance, risk management, resource coordination, and performance tracking.
• Support the development and use of project management tools, dashboards, templates, stage‑gate processes, and standard work.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of project delivery processes, project visibility, cross‑functional accountability, and lessons learned.

Project Governance, Reporting & Continuous Improvement

• Maintain accurate project records, including project plans, schedules, risk registers, meeting minutes, action trackers, change logs, and customer communication records.
• Develop and maintain project KPIs relating to on‑time delivery, milestone adherence, documentation performance, customer satisfaction, and issue resolution.
• Support project prioritisation, capacity visibility, and management reporting across the active project portfolio.
• Ensure lessons learned are captured and used to improve future project execution.
• Promote a culture of ownership, transparency, accountability, and disciplined project execution.

The Package

• Competitive salary on offer, depending on level of experience.
• 37.5 hours per week, Monday‑Friday.
• Company pension scheme.
• Private health care.
• Life assurance.
• Quarterly bonus scheme potential.
• Additional benefits.