Project Manager

Bradford, Yorkshire
Fuel Storage Solutions

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Project Manager to join our award-winning Fuel Storage solutions and services company, working with an established client base comprising multiple blue chip organisations

Offering a salary of circa £50,000 per annum + benefits, including car, enhanced Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and on-site parking in a modern office environment.

Full-time, based in West Yorkshire with UK-wide travel.

With strong leadership skills, you will hold a relevant qualification in Project Management, Construction or Engineering, coupled with experience with pipework/engineering projects, and management of the full project lifecycle. You will be an exceptional communicator, and be used to influencing at senior stakeholder level, working with key decision makers.

You will be a completer -finisher by nature, and your attention to detail and process orientation will ensure that nothing falls between the cracks and that you proactively manage resources, risk and resolution.

Key responsibilities of the role will include:

• Establishing project requirements, delivery objectives, timelines, costs and commercials.
• Developing and managing detailed project plans, proactively planning and delivering against all resource requirements to ensure delivery in line with objectives
• Heading project delivery, including on-site visits and oversight, ensuring operational compliance
• Management of project commercials, working closely with the Finance team
• Management of governance and status reporting
• Working effectively with relevant stakeholders, attending and presenting at client facing meetings
• Working closely and collaboratively with Engineers and Account Managers
• Mentoring members of the project and administration support teams.
• Leading the procurement and management of sub-contracted resource for assigned projects
• Developing and implementing business processes and procedures to deliver project outcomes
• Ensuring service provisioning and administration is well controlled and delivered within agreed timescales
• Preparation and presentation of Project and SLA performance reporting as per contractual requirements
• Overall accountability for effective and accurate asset recording as required under assigned contracts
• Escalating and resolving service affecting issues promptly and challenging/removing blockers that stop the team successfully completing their jobs be it from internal or external factors

To be successful in the role you will have a strong team ethic with a desire to grow with the business.

Essential skills and experience are:

• Degree level or similar in Project Management, Engineering or Construction
• Experience in delivering engineering projects, ideally involving pipework, pumps, tanks
• Demonstrable experience in Project Management of large scale projects
• Management of CRM systems
• Experience in designing and implementing operational process and procedures
• Experience in delivering continuous performance improvements
• Strong leadership skills
• Exceptional communication and relationship building skills
• Organisational and planning skills
• A critical thinker, with meticulous attention to detail
• Demonstrable influencing skills at senior stakeholder level, working with decision makers and Directors
• Self-motivation, with the ability to work under pressure to meet strict deadlines
• Capable of working within a progressive organisation and able to build strong relationships and credibility with customers and both internally and externally, promoting and representing the business in a professional manner at all times
• Strong commercial acumen
• Excellent relationship building skills

Desirable skills and experience are:

• Experience of delivering projects and services under NEC construction or similar forms of contract
• Experience in construction and/ or transport sectors
• Site Management Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS) trained

Please note that the role is conditional on passing security checks required for working with the MOD and a Basic DBS check