Project Director

ALTEN; England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Healthcare

Life Insurance

Travel Insurance

Pension scheme

Job summary

ALTEN are a leading engineering and IT services consultancy. We seek an experienced project leader to drive fixed-price, multi-team projects in the energy sector, ensuring quality, cost, and timely delivery while aligning with client requirements.

You will validate offers, organize governance, supervise resources, and coach teams, with strong stakeholder engagement and result-oriented leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering is required.
• Energy industry experience is essential.
• Background in Technical Project Management: estimation, planning, and risk management.
• Proven coaching, leadership and team management experience.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work autonomously with an entrepreneurial mindset.

Responsibilities

• Validate ALTEN offer during the Bid and after modifications.
• Respond to the technical requirements of the customer and validate delivery notes.
• Organize external committees and ensure delivery time, cost and quality compliance.
• Monitor delivery progress with the customer.
• Validate resource adequacy and ensure relevant training for the team.
• Support the Project Leader in PM activities (resources, risks, schedule, quality).
• Define and maintain organisation, roles and responsibilities; approve plans and processes.
• Manage project margin in collaboration with BM and report during monthly reviews.

Skills

Energy industry background

Technical Project Management

Estimation & project planning

Risk management

Coaching & leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication & interpersonal skills

Autonomous working

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering

Job description

ALTEN are a leading Engineering and IT services consultancy operating across 30 countries, making waves in all sectors: Aeronautics, Space, Defence, Security and naval, Automotive, Rail and mobility, Energy and environment, Life Sciences and health, Industrial Equipment and electronics, Telecoms, Banking, Finance & Insurance, Retail, Services & Medias, Public Services & Government.

With a team of passionate, diligent, and agile Engineers, we are united by a common purpose: building tomorrow’s world today. Day by day, we support our customers' development strategies as well as their technological and sustainability transformation.

Technical responsibility of fixed price projects on large, complex perimeters (typically 80 to 120 Engineers) including the responsibility to ensure the project activities are undertaken in accordance with the agreed quality, cost and delivery objectives, as well as ensuring compliance with customer requirements.

Customer Management

• Validate the ALTEN offer during the Bid and any modification afterwards
• Answer to the technical requirements of the customer
• Responsible for the validation of delivery acceptance notes
• Responsible for the organization of the external committees
• Accountable for the customer to respect the delivery Time Cost Quality
• Monitor delivery progress with the customer

People Management

• Consulted for the PL nomination (shared responsibility with the Business Manager)
• Validates the adequacy of the resources and the project needs
• Monitors the technical skills of the team and ensures that appropriate technical/project training is available
• Responsible for the project organisation/service delivery in order to be compliant with customer requirements
• Responsible for pre-validation of team members involved in relevant activities

Project Management

• Support the Project Leader in the Project Management activities (resources, risks, delivery schedule, quality, etc.)
• Decide the activities to be nearshored/offshored, if any
• Prepare the external committees with the Project Leader
• Define and maintain the organisation, roles and responsibilities of each colleague within the organisation
• Approve the project plans and processes

Other Internal Responsibilities

• Validate ALTEN technical offer and any modifications
• Validate production and estimation to completion in project form
• Manage the margin for the project (shared responsibility with BM)
• Report operational situation during monthly review

Qualifications

• Bachelors or master's degree in Engineering
• 10+ years of experience as Engineer, Senior Engineer, Technical Lead, Lead Engineer or integrated Project Lead
• Must have Energy industry background
• Technical Project Management background: estimation, project planning, risk management
• Demonstrable experience in coaching and leading teams, and managing autonomously relevant projects, being a key actor in client meetings
• Experience working independently, being result oriented, having an entrepreneurial mindset, strong communication and interpersonal skills in stakeholder management and natural leadership

What we offer

• Competitive basic salary accompanied by an attractive bonus based on your performance
• Company benefits including Private Medical Healthcare, Life Insurance and Travel Insurance
• Pension scheme with company contributions up to 6%
• A challenging position in a fast-growing company with a quick career development path for its best talents

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