Engineering Project Manager

Tata Steel; Shotton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market competitive salary

35 days holidays per annum

Annual Pay Review

Bonus Scheme

Ongoing Tata Steel training

Private Healthcare Scheme (Individual)

Defined contribution pension (10%–em1)

Job summary

Tata Steel is seeking an Engineering Project Manager to lead major site development projects at Colors Shotton, guiding a team of engineers from concept to commissioning. You’ll manage budgets, coordinate stakeholders, and ensure safety and regulatory compliance.

With a Mechanical or Electrical engineering background and experience delivering multi‑discipline projects, you’ll shape site improvements and drive on‑time delivery while developing others across this leading steel producer in the UK.

Qualifications

• Strong grounding in engineering from Mechanical or Electrical background with experience leading projects.
• Comfortable managing all stages of a project lifecycle with multidisciplinary teams.
• Confident communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Good understanding of safety legislation, risk assessment techniques, and safe project delivery.
• Budgeting and cost control experience.
• Professional registration such as Chartered or Incorporated Engineer is beneficial; PRINCE2 is useful but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage projects that enhance equipment, improve manufacturing performance, and bring new capabilities to life.
• Build and manage stakeholder groups, define project charter, and follow a stage-gate process.
• Develop detailed project plans, engineering specifications, and governance structures; oversee design, procurement, installation and commissioning.
• Ensure all work meets engineering standards, safety requirements, and regulatory expectations; coordinate risk assessments and CDM/HAZOP studies.
• Lead and support a team including Project Engineers, Design Engineers and contractors.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing Teams and plant engineers to provide technical guidance, manage costs, and liaise with suppliers, procurement, finance and safety teams.

Skills

Engineering project management

Stakeholder management

Budgeting & cost control

Risk assessment

Leadership

PRINCE2

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

PRINCE2

Job description

We believe that our strength is not just in our steel but the diversity of our workforce. Our people make the difference. Are you someone who enjoys leading major engineering projects, bringing people together, and seeing ideas turn into fully delivered, working solutions? If you're motivated by improving processes, delivering impactful site developments, and guiding talented engineers, this could be the ideal next step in your career. We're looking for an Engineering Project Manager to support the Colors Shotton business by leading key development projects from concept through to commissioning and handover. You'll also guide a small team of Project Engineers and work closely with stakeholders across the site.

What you will do

You’ll play a key role in shaping the future of our site by managing projects that enhance equipment, improve manufacturing performance, and bring new capabilities to life. From the very start of each project, you'll build and manage stakeholder groups, define the project charter and follow a structured stage‑gate process to keep everything aligned. Your work will involve developing detailed project plans, engineering specifications and governance structures, as well as overseeing design, procurement, installation and commissioning activities. You'll be responsible for ensuring all project work meets relevant engineering standards, safety requirements and regulatory expectations, and you'll coordinate risk assessments, Management of Change documentation, CDM considerations and HAZOP studies. Alongside this, you'll lead and support a team that includes Project Engineers, Design Engineers and contractors, ensuring safe and effective delivery. You'll work closely with Manufacturing Teams and plant engineers to provide technical guidance, keep up to date with new engineering technologies, manage project costs and budgets, and liaise with suppliers, procurement, finance, safety teams and wider Tata engineering functions.

You’ll bring a strong grounding in engineering, from either a Mechanical or Electrical background, combined with experience leading engineering projects and an Engineering degree. You should be comfortable managing all stages of a project lifecycle, working with multidisciplinary teams, and keeping multiple moving parts aligned and on track. To succeed, you'll need confident communication and stakeholder‑management skills, along with a good understanding of safety legislation, risk assessment techniques, and the principles behind safe project delivery. Experience with budgeting and cost control is important, as is the ability to problem‑solve, analyse information and make well‑reasoned decisions. Professional registration such as Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status is beneficial, and project management qualifications like PRINCE2 are useful but not essential. What matters most is your ability to lead, influence, collaborate and guide projects to a successful outcome. If you're excited by the idea of delivering major engineering projects, developing others and shaping future site improvements, we'd love to hear from you.

Benefits

• A market competitive salary
• 35 days holidays per annum
• Annual Pay Review
• Bonus Scheme - subject to business performance
• Ongoing Tata Steel training, which has built a reputation as one of the best within the industry
• Private Healthcare Scheme (Individual cover)
• One of the UK's leading defined contribution pension schemes (10% employer contribution / 6% employee contribution)

We also have an extensive list of lifestyle benefits including free onsite parking at all of our sites, an employee assistance programme as well as Employee discount scheme for companies including Vodafone, Jaguar Land Rover and also various local services.

Why us?

Tata Steel is one of the world's top 10 steel producers. The combined group has an annual aggregate crude steel capacity of more than 33 million tonnes with approximately 80,000 employees across four continents. We're part of the Tata Group, one of the largest, most diverse conglomerates in the world with businesses in the UK including Tata Steel, Jaguar Land Rover and Tetley Tea. Sustainability is at the very heart of what we do and we are dedicated to managing our operations responsibly and to continuously improving our performance. Innovating for tomorrow, making a positive impact today. Tata Steel in the UK is committed to our ambition of reducing energy consumption and to becoming a carbon neutral steelmaker by 2045.