Project Manager - UK and Ireland in Manchester

Do you share our passion for renewable energy for a greener and sustainable future? Nordex has an exciting opportunity for the role of Project Manager based at our UK Head Office in Manchester.

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Didsbury, Manchester with regular travel to sites across the UK & Ireland

Hours: 37 hours per week which includes a 3pm finish on Fridays

How can you make a difference?

The Project Manager role at Nordex manages and controls our projects in terms of time, cost and quality from the point of handover from our sales team till the handover to our customer and the Nordex Service team.

What will you be doing?

• Supporting the Sales teams in the final stages of tender processes and facilitating a smooth handover from Sales to Project Management
• Executing comprehensive projects on-time, within budget and to good quality
• Managing and monitoring all aspects of environment, health and safety
• First contact for all parties involved in the project such as client, subcontractors, suppliers and any other internal or external party
• Negotiation with subcontractors and suppliers
• Responsibility for contract and claim management towards clients and subcontractors
• Managing personnel and providing strong control of subcontractors and key suppliers including but not limited to erection and transportation companies throughout the project execution phase
• Securing correct project handling and creating a successful team from various departments such as central engineering, logistics, site management, commissioning engineer, erection supervisors
• Monitoring and safeguarding required level of quality throughout erection, finishing and commissioning works within given budget and time frame
• Defining and initiating appropriate corrective actions for problems encountered during the execution of the project (related to cost, time and/or quality)
• Creating necessary transparency with regards to an optimisation of cost-effectiveness in cooperation with Commercial Project Management
• Working within Nordex processes to manage and report progress on project with a monthly status report incl. reporting to the Area PM with regards to HSE, quality, cost, progress of the works, claims, installed equipment and quality
• Managing and reporting on project KPIs
• Facilitating a smooth handover to colleagues in the Service department

What are we looking for?

The successful candidate will have significant experience working as a Project Manager for complex technical projects either in Civil Construction, Manufacturing or plant engineering industries and will ideally have worked within the wind industry or energy sectors in the UK and Ireland. You will also hold a degree in an Engineering discipline.

You will have experience in all aspects of project management including full responsibility for multi-million EUR contracts and have strong commercial and financial acumen. You will also display strong leadership and team working skills and have the ability to create a strong successful and enjoyable team.

You will also have proven experience of leading the delivery of large, complex and technically challenging projects with utility scaled clients and ideally have experience of turnkey projects.

Other essential skills and behaviours required for this role include:

• Excellent negotiation and communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and organisational skills
• Ability to work with different business cultures

Please note this role will require regular travel to our sites across the UK & Ireland and occasionally to other locations within the European division. The successful candidate must hold a full UK driving licence.

What we can offer you?

• Time Off: Our teams receive 33 days annual leave including bank holidays. After two years continual service you will be entitled to an additional day’s holiday per annum (Maximum 5 days). Plus an extra day off for your birthday.
• Health & Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme (offering therapy sessions), Bike2Work Scheme, Paid Eye tests & contribution towards Glasses, The option to purchase Private Healthcare.
• Volunteering: All our employees can use 2 paid working days per calendar year to carry out volunteering activities in your local community.
• Family friendly: Our family friendly policies include, Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave, Compassionate Leave, and Life Insurance.
• Memberships: Nordex will reimburse the cost of one annual professional subscription fee to one professional institution relevant to your work.