Project Manager

Job Role: Project Manager

Location: Leeds (LS9)

Salary: £32,000 – £35,000 (negotiated on experience)

Hours: 08:00 – 17:00 (1 hour lunch)

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.

Project Handover & Set Up:

• Arrange & facilitate the project launch meeting with the customer – order review & requirements – initiating meeting notes & the change register.
• Tasks are set up in line with handover, delivery dates – all in sync with an agreed joint Schedule / Plan.

Project Tracking:

• Weekly meetings with customers – ensuring up to date meeting notes, change register & Plan and communicate to Project resource planning team the build schedule & then any agreed negotiated changes with clients.
• Discuss & understand any outstanding technical issues with the technical team.
• Generate & submit quotations to approved changes following the final design review & costings.
• Track & report changes / issues – drawing remakes, calc reviews – Change Ledger & 4 Box to be used for this.
• Communicate with Sales & ensure they are updating on Account stoppages and escalate to Sales if Customer communication has stopped or causing serious delays in the process following Handover.

Project Close Down:

• Ensure all items have been delivered to site with confirmation from internal logistics with proof of delivery to client’s site.
• Ensure all invoices throughout the lifecycle have been reconciled & full project as quoted vs as supplied is reported.
• Closedown with customer and obtain review notes on what has gone well, less well and what could be done to improve our process & service.

What will you need?

• 3 years’ 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), Construction is desirable
• PM Qualification (APM) is desirable
• MS project / other PM tools exposure, experience to advanced level (Gantt & Tracker usage) is desirable