Sheffield | Full-Time | Permanent | SC Clearance Required
Key Responsibilities
- Lead projects from sales handover and client kick-off through to completion, ensuring delivery on time, on budget and to specification.
- Build and maintain detailed contract programmes in P6 or MS Project, covering deliverables, approvals, testing, site dates and invoicing milestones.
- Take full control of project budgets, approving purchase orders, managing costs against estimate and identifying opportunities for savings.
- Manage contract variations, payment applications and cash flow, working with Accounts to ensure timely invoicing and retention release.
- Produce monthly Project Status Reports and present performance, risk and corrective actions at project reviews.
- Coordinate engineering, design, EC&I and workshop teams to ensure designs meet specification and resources are used efficiently.
- Organise labour, subcontractors, plant and equipment for workshop builds and site installations, including FAT and SAT activities.
- Champion Health & Safety across all project activity, ensuring RAMS, CDM and HSE requirements are fully met.
- Act as the main client interface, chairing design and coordination meetings and ensuring client expectations align with the scope as sold.
About You
The successful candidate will bring a proven track record of delivering engineering projects within nuclear, oil & gas, power generation, process or manufacturing environments. You will be commercially aware, confident leading multidisciplinary teams, and comfortable managing multiple projects in a highly regulated setting.
Essential
- Degree in an engineering discipline, or qualified by significant experience within an engineering company.
- Demonstrable experience delivering engineering projects to time, cost and quality.
- Strong understanding of engineering standards, Health & Safety, CDM and CE regulations.
- Working knowledge of NEC and JCT contracts.
- Proficiency in P6 or MS Project, with strong scheduling, budgeting and cost control skills.
- Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills.
- Eligible to obtain BPSS and SC clearance.
Desirable
- Experience in mechanical handling, such as overhead cranes, materials handling or moving structures.
- Background in nuclear decommissioning or MOD projects.
- Project management qualification (APM, PRINCE2, PMP or similar).
- Health & Safety qualification such as SMSTS, NEBOSH or IOSH.
What You'll Get
- Strong salary and benefits package
- The chance to lead high-profile projects in nuclear, defence and power sectors
- Excellent opportunity for progression within a growing engineering group
If you are a Project Director looking to take ownership of complex engineering projects within a forward-thinking business, this could be an excellent opportunity for you
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