Project Manager

Our client, a global EPC business, is currently looking to hire a suitable experienced Project Manager for either a long term contract (Outside IR35) or permanent role which will predominately be based at their Glasgow office with weekly visits to their clients’ site.

We are ideally looking for a candidate with similar experience gained in EPC environment, and able to handle multi-million pound projects within a heavy industrial engineering sector such as Pharmaceutical, Petrochemical, Oil & Gas etc.

Job Description:

Project Manager to create delivery excellence across assigned projects/portfolios, provide certainty and confidence to the customer/project sponsor, and robust control of project scope, schedule, cost and risk.

Responsibilities:
This role will coordinate implementing and completing a moderate-sized project, a portfolio of small projects, or a major component of a large project.  This includes responsibility for safe delivery, ensuring that quality, schedule, and cost targets are met and managing the associated risk. Responsible for project delivery to agreed specifications, managing change and customer relationships, and ensuring appropriate reporting and governance are adhered to and controlled. 
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:
Project Execution:

• P & L responsibility with associated commercial and financial accountability including revenue delivery, margin and overhead management, budget and forecast determination and attainment, risk and opportunity reviews, cost controls, accounts payable/billing and cash collection 
• Contributing and reviewing the project proposal and plan to determine the timeframe, procedures for accomplishing the project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various project phases.  Contributes to setting project evaluation parameters
• Negotiates changes to project scope or specifications with the customer
• Follows up on the change management process to identify and approve the modifications of the scope, cost, schedule and quality
• Pursue and develop opportunities for innovation, such as digitalisation and technology use, work share and high-value engineering centres
• Establishes project procedures and leads production of a project execution plan including the scope of work, deliverables list, master schedule, budget, org charts, risk register etc 
• Regularly reports project progress to senior management and/or the customer
• Responsible for delivery of agreed schedule and financial performance, proactively intervening to avoid slippage 
• Ensures competence of project team members to carry out assigned work 
• Leads ongoing focus on risk identification and mitigation during project execution 
• Responsible for the project HSSE leadership, ensures a program of initiatives and auditing schedule are established and that HSSE and quality management issues are proactively addressed 
• Guides and directs a multidiscipline project team, which may include external specialists and involve staff from multiple offices and sites 
• Responsible for ensuring project team members are competent to carry out assigned duties 
• Promotes and sets up performance improvement culture and actions on complex projects and into their supply chains
• Facilitates the set up of information management systems/applications as applicable to suit various life phases of projects and manage information management project team 
• Participate in assurance activities and peer reviews 

Experience required:  

• Engineering experience and experience of project delivery (Cost, Resource, Schedule, Risk) are key to success in this role 
• Demonstrable experience in the management of multidisciplined pharmaceutical projects or other relevant industries is strongly preferred
• Knowledge of the site QMS and Regulatory Requirements (Safety and Quality) relative to the defined process
• Experience in change management methodology and advocate of GPS principles
• Knowledge of historical, current, and anticipated manufacturing plant and equipment. The job holder will have sufficient scientific and engineering credibility to effectively interface with and influence key stakeholders, internal and external

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