Elevation Recruitment are working with a UK specialist, leading manufacturing business in North Yorkshire on a unique Project Manager vacancy. Reporting to a Head of Engineering and NPI, the Project Manager has responsibility for ensuring delivery of all key projects across the full project life-cycle and will provide an excellent platform for an established professional or Senior Project Engineer stepping up.
Project Manager duties & responsibilities:
- Define clear roles, responsibilities and accountabilities for the project, documenting these in a RACI matrix in the Project Management Plan (PMP)
- Set up and baseline allocated Bids/projects, and control them throughout the lifecycle of the project in accordance with the Life Cycle Management process
- Accountable for the delivery of New Projects (NPI) and their transition into production
- Run Start Up meetings, daily stand-ups, monthly project reviews, Contract Status Reviews (CSR's) and Gate reviews with team ensuring full involvement and support of all service providers and independents as required
- Taking a Gemba based approach to deliver programmes
- Demonstrate a clear overview of progress, risk, issues and readiness at reviews with clear and accurate signed off minutes issued, and all actions logged/progressed through central action log
- Ensure all project requirements (e.g. technical, commercial, project management, delivery etc., both internal & external) are clearly understood from the outset (or firmed up during the bid/contract negotiation phase) and documented in a Deliverables Matrix
- Lead and motivate a functional team, managing performance and driving engagement to ensure that the team achieves individual priorities and collaborates with colleagues to achieve wider goals
- Work with the project team and functions to establish the project budget and quality expectations
Project Manager Qualifications / Experience:
- Degree or equivalent by relevant experience
- APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ), or PMI Project Management Professional
- Proficient in Microsoft Project
- Experienced Project Manager
- Ability to complete work to schedules
- Ability to create a delivery focus team
- Confident and diplomatic with an ability to create, influence and foster working relationships internally and with customers at all levels of the business