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Job Role: Project Manager

Location: Leeds (LS9)

Salary: £44,000 - £48,000 (negotiated on experience) + Car Allowance + Bonus

Hours: 08:00 – 17:00 (1 hour lunch)

The Company:

This is an exciting opportunity to join an impressive, modern, forward thinking, technology focused, manufacturing business with ambitious growth plans. They are also focused on sustainability and are certified carbon neutral. With over 40 years of history and proven success in the construction sector, you will be joining a strong, solid company which can offer career progression and a futuristic Environment with world class manufacturing capabilities and excellently presented offices.

My client is a supportive business and offers full training upon joining the company, with on-going support throughout. You will be given opportunities to expand on your qualifications and skills if you chose to take on additional education. You will also be given growth opportunities enabling you to progress within the company structure.

Project Manager:

Our Project Managers will initiate the Project from Sales Hand over through to the execution & close out ensuring successful delivery of product to site c/w invoice tracking in line with agreed budgets. As a Project Manager you will co-ordinate & track multiple client projects in line with the business needs using a set process as below from Order intake to delivery on site.

The role will be a mix of office based and site based, so good communication skills, technical knowledge and construction experience is essential. Being target driven with a strong drive for delivering projects on time are a must have attribute to be successful in securing this opportunity.

Main Duties / Key Responsibilities:

The role of a Project Manager is to “pro-actively drive on time project delivery, on budget and to a high technical standard to ensure excellent customer satisfaction and repeat business.”

Project launch -

* Review quotation, supporting documentation and email history to familiarise yourself with the project.

* Speak to your direct Sales contact to understand customer requirements, stakeholders and expectations

* Lead project launch meeting with customer to ensure their scope is clearly understood, expectations are clear from both sides, highlight/mitigate risks and agreeing on ongoing communication plan.

* Agree format for regular communication (internal and with customer) with clear agenda and issued minutes.

Delivery -

* Create an achievable project plan following SLA’s agreed during project launch

* Schedule tasks to achieve this plan ensuring project is resourced accordingly, quickly communicate/escalate if information or comments are late causing delay to plan

* Pro-actively drive company and customer team to ensure plan is achieved

Budget control -

* Manage project to deliver on customer agreed budget.

* Identify, communicate and justify commercial scope change at the point of variation to obtain commercial approval to proceed from the budget owner within our customers organisation

Technical -

* Monitors revisions and ensure timely intervention if designs do not quickly converge to a solution (in lien with plan)

* Ensure open lines of communication between internal teams and customer technical lead.

* Assist in the resolution of blockers preventing drawings being issued.

Project close down -

* Arrange project close out meeting to discuss project performance and lessons learnt

* Discuss future projects to implement these lessons learnt

Job Dimension / Scope:

The project manager must pro-actively manage multiple customer stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered successfully and in line with our core values. They are at the forefront of the business in terms of building customer relationships and gaining future opportunities.

Key Competencies:

Knowledge -

* Knowledge of modern construction methods focusing on company product interfaces

* Project Management best practise (risk management, planning, cost management, communication etc)

* A basic/good technical understanding of structural steel projects and/or construction projects

Skills -

* A strong communicator with excellent interpersonal and client facing skills

* MS Office including Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint

* Scheduling / planning

* Ability to multi-task with excellent time management

* High level of accountability for plans, action, delivery and outcome

* Commercial awareness (budget, forecast, margin etc)

* Problem solving

Experience -

- Project management experience (in a technical environment)

- Construction experience (design process and/or site)

- Leading teams to achieve a successful outcome

What will you need?

- 2 years (minimum) experience as a Project Manager or similar

- Project management Cradle to Grave experience with Critical Path Analysis understanding

- Task & time management with tracking nature engrained

- Confident in expediting of Issues

- Urgency & on the front foot whilst being pragmatic

- Strong communicator, written & verbal

- Similar manufacturing background (Sheet Steel, Fabrication),

- PM Qualification (APM) is desirable