REACH Programme Manager

Job Title: REACH Programme Manager

Location: Lincoln

Contract length: 12 months contract

Role purpose

The Senior Programme Manager will provide overall leadership for the REACH Compliance

Programme, an ongoing strategic programme focused on bringing protective coating

applications used on Siemens aeroderivative gas turbines into compliance with REACH

requirements. The role will be responsible for restoring programme control, driving delivery

across multiple workstreams, maintaining business continuity, and ensuring effective

engagement with regulatory bodies and senior stakeholders.

Reporting line and programme scope

The role reports directly to the Head of EHS and provides oversight across four key

programme branches: materials compliance, business continuity, regulations, and

transformation. Each branch has dedicated programme management support, with the

Senior Programme Manager accountable for overall integration, governance, prioritisation,

stakeholder alignment, and delivery assurance.

Key responsibilities

Take ownership of the overall REACH Compliance Programme and establish

clear programme governance, cadence, controls, milestones, and decision-

making routes.

Lead the integration of the four programme branches, ensuring dependencies,

risks, actions, resources, and priorities are visible and actively managed.

Drive the recovery of a complex programme that has lost momentum, creating

clarity, pace, accountability, and confidence across internal and external

stakeholder groups.

Ensure product modification plans are delivered in a controlled way that

protects customer commitments, operational continuity, and regulatory

compliance.

Challenge delays, pushbacks, and competing priorities constructively while

maintaining senior stakeholder confidence and alignment.

Engage effectively with regulatory bodies and external stakeholders, ensuring

programme responses are robust, timely, and professionally managed.

Provide clear reporting to the Managing Director and senior leadership,

highlighting progress, risks, escalations, decisions required, and recovery

actions.

Build trust and credibility across technical, operational, compliance,

commercial, and leadership communities to secure commitment to

programme outcomes.

Experience and capability requirements

Proven senior programme management experience, ideally within complex

engineering, manufacturing, energy, aerospace, or other highly regulated

environments.

Demonstrable experience managing large portfolios or multi-workstream

programmes with significant compliance, technical, operational, and

stakeholder complexity.

Strong understanding of regulatory compliance programmes; direct REACH

experience would be highly advantageous.

Experience maintaining business continuity while delivering product, process,

material, or compliance-related change.

Ability to operate confidently at Managing Director and senior leadership level,

providing concise insight, robust challenge, and clear recommendations.

Track record of leading through ambiguity, recovering challenged

programmes, and creating structure where priorities, ownership, or

governance are unclear.

Strong stakeholder management capability, including the ability to influence

senior technical experts, operational leaders, regulatory stakeholders, and

demanding internal customers.

Leadership profile

This role requires a leader with resilience, and strong judgement. The successful candidate

must be comfortable dealing with strong personalities, challenging resistance, and holding

stakeholders to account while remaining collaborative and outcome-focused. They must be

able to stand firm under pressure, make balanced decisions in the interests of the

programme, and maintain momentum in the face of adversity.

Ideal candidate summary

The ideal candidate will be a highly credible Senior Programme Manager with experience

delivering complex change in a regulated technical environment. They will combine

programme discipline with commercial awareness, regulatory sensitivity, and the confidence

to influence at executive level. They will bring the structure, pace, and leadership needed to

bring the REACH Programme back under control and deliver a compliant, business-

sustaining outcome.