Project Director

TN United Kingdom; Warrington; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Project Director to oversee complex engineering projects across various sectors, ensuring they are delivered on time and within budget. This role requires a leader who can manage multi-disciplinary teams, uphold high safety and quality standards, and foster strong relationships with clients. You will be responsible for the entire project life cycle, from strategic planning to execution, while mentoring your team and driving continuous improvement. Join a forward-thinking company that values innovation and excellence in engineering services.

Qualifications

• Experience managing MEICA projects under constraints.
• Qualified in APM PMQ or equivalent with strong project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects from inception to completion, ensuring quality and safety.
• Manage resources and stakeholder relationships effectively.

Skills

Project Management

HSE Standards

Stakeholder Management

Contract Assessment

Change Management

Education

APM PMQ Qualified or equivalent

BEng, HND

IOSH, CDM

Tools

NEC 3 & 4 Contracts

CSCS

Job description

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Bilfinger UK is a leading engineering and maintenance provider, supporting customers across the chemical & petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & biopharma, power & energy, utilities, renewables and food & beverage markets. We enhance the efficiency of assets, ensuring a high level of availability and reducing maintenance costs.

We have extensive experience in offshore and onshore facilities; specialising in asset management services throughout all life cycle phases from consulting, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning.

This commitment is delivered by an experienced and highly competent workforce of over 4,500 employees operating from 14 offices in strategic industrial hubs, upholding the highest standards of safety, compliance and quality.

The Role:

The Project Director will be responsible for a project from inception to fruition; will lead on HSE, Quality standards and customer satisfaction. Whilst the role will ensure that project is delivered on time and on budget. In addition, will take strategic direction from the Vice President whilst holding full accountability and responsibility for the safe delivery of the full life cycle of project (CAPEX/OPEX) under your control. You will provide leadership and mentoring to direct reports and engineers in your team, share knowledge, best practice utilising previous experience.

You must be experienced in assessing contracts, working closely with internal and external stakeholders and be familiar with forms of contract such as NEC3/4 and IChemE. Experience with early works and interaction with design engineering and constructability is key.The role will require you to develop and foster good working relations with the client and internal stakeholders.

Key Activities:

Manage appropriate resources to ensure:

• Safety of people and the environment is first and foremost in all we do
• Deliver to the highest quality standards and ensure compliance at all times to our BMS
• Working with the design, construction & commercial teams to ensure our deliverables are translated into coherent and competitive submissions
• Key milestones are established and delivered to satisfy client & business requirements
• Scope, Time and Cost are appropriately considered, monitored and actions are taken to maintain expected outcomes
• Ensure resources and materials are suitable placed to meet and exceed customer expectations
• Delivery is to the highest standard and complies with appropriate regulations
• Contingencies are put in place to deal with changes and maintain customer satisfaction
• Operates with the governance and guidelines within the companies BMS
• Ownership of project review meetings with the team to ensure full project transparency and accurate dissemination of information (internal/external)
• Operates within the contract guidelines

Lead, support and develop the service by:

• Effectively placing resources to deliver projects strategy/objectives
• Providing clarity surrounding individual roles and responsibilities
• Providing opportunities for personal growth and development
• Recognising talent and embracing a continuous learning environment
• Stepping down in the role and helping the team deliver
• Understanding and translating to others the entire business service offering
• Leveraging business services across the full contract scope
• Applying, monitoring and driving improvement in norm performance across the business services
• Identifying, managing and removing waste across the entire service provision
• Growing, applying, sharing expertise

Support a strategy to evolve the business by:

• Supports new business pursuits right through the Sales process in support of new business growth
• Assisting in the analysis of customer needs and delivering in line with the contract objectives and conditions
• Ensuring the you operate within the companies governance structure and guidelines at all times
• Translating knowledge and developing skill pool within the service provision
• Developing the service provision through close customer relationships
• Monitoring of performance and customer feedback and ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction
• Closing out Active actions and ensuring your team is doing the same
• Proactively leads effort to improves competitiveness through better technical and commercial offering for the clients
• Acts as subject matter expert in chosen area
• Develop and Coaching of Talent within team

Experience & Qualifications:

• Experience of managing MEICA Projects under people, time and money constraints
• Experience of managing multi-disciplined Engineers and Project Managers
• Experience of delivering Fixed price and/or target cost work packages involving multiple discipline trade interfaces
• Experience of successfully managing change in a term contract environment
• Exposure of complex commercial frameworks and successful delivery of agreed targets
• Wide exposure to feed and construction activities across a diverse customer portfolio
• Management of multiple customer relationships within defence environment
• APM PMQ Qualified or equivalent
• SMSTS
• CSCS
• NEC 3 & 4 contracts / IChemE
• BEng, HND, IOSH,CDM

If you wish to speak to a member of the recruitment team, please contact 01224 246246.

Engineering & Consultancy| Bilfinger UK Limited| Permanent| White-collar workers| Bachelor's degree| Project Management [emailprotected]