Senior Project Manager in Telford

• Responsible for thoroughly understanding, reviewing and communicating multiple project requirements to appropriate team members and managing all stakeholder requirements accordingly. As a Senior Project Manager, you will also be expected to lead a portfolio of complex, high-value projects.

Job Responsibilities

• Collect all contractual obligations, commercial & technical information available from the sales & proposal stage
• Be responsible to thoroughly understand, review and communicate stakeholder requirements to appropriate team members and manage all requirements accordingly to realise them for the stakeholders
• Establish clear ownership for project tasks, ensure that team members have the tools needed, provide timely feedback
• Lead resource planning and engagement with Engineering Teams to have the proper resources available, schedule and assign all the project tasks according to the contractual obligations and customer’s expectations
• Maintain effective communication and working relationships with customers and project team members
• Proactively communicate project status, issues & risks to Directors
• Conduct regular status meetings with all stakeholders, keeping the stakeholder’s needs and requirements continuously in view
• Troubleshoot technical issues when the need arises and escalating appropriately as needed
• Facilitate productivity by ensuring that the team has tools to succeed
• Monitor and control stage payments & costs that need to stay within contract obligations & budget limits. Including approval of payments to subcontractors and buyouts suppliers
• Manage the documentation exchange (soft and hardware copies) as per contract keeping trace with official document list and dedicated transmittals
• Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality and customer goals
• Secure the quality and timely delivery of goods and components through expediting activities
• Organise and attend FAT verifying the full availability of contract goods and needed documentation and instrumentation. Obtain from the customer the signed final acceptance certificate
• Organise and attend to site meetings and surveys with the customer
• Responsible for the change order management, engaging also into negotiation with customers for additional price recognition
• Follow up the project during installation and commissioning stage with particular focus on activities schedule and H&S topics
• Mentor and support junior team members, including project managers and project co-ordinators
• Other duties as required

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• University Degree in Electrical Electronic Engineering
• Proficiency in MS Office and MS Project is required
• Excellent verbal and written English language skills
• Experience as proposal / sales engineer, proposal manager, project manager, procurement manager
• Familiarity with the Automation industry is a must
• Willing to travel for approximately 25% of the time throughout UK, occasional overseas travel

Personal Qualities

• Being a great team player as well as the ability to work off own initiative
• Confident and pro-active with an organised approach to work
• Situational adaptability
• Hands on attitude
• Enthusiastic and able to be relied upon

Remuneration Package

• BUPA Medical plan
• Life Insurance
• Employee assistance programme
• Programme of personal development & training

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