Project manager

PE Global; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

PE Global is seeking a Project Manager for a leading multinational industrial machinery manufacturer in Peterborough. The role is an initial 12-month contract with a competitive pay rate.

You will develop and manage detailed project schedules, lead cross-functional teams, monitor progress, and report to stakeholders while ensuring on-time delivery within budget. Ideal candidates have a degree or 3–5 years of PM experience, strong leadership and communication skills, and knowledge of MS Project,

Qualifications

• This role requires a degree or 3-5 years of related project management experience.
• Proven experience with project charters, scheduling and planning projects.
• Ability to lead development and updates of schedules and communicate with stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal, analytical and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and produce PM schedules using MS Project.
• Lead the portfolio of projects and monitor progress.
• Provide regular stakeholder reporting and risk management.
• Manage budgets and resources; maintain logs and cost tracking.

Skills

Project management

Scheduling

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Communication

Risk management

Multitasking

Education

Bachelor's degree

PM certification (PMP/Prince2)

Tools

MS Project

MS Office

Excel

Adobe Acrobat

Web Publishing

Job description

PE Global is currently recruiting for a Project Manager for a leading multi-national industrial machinery manufacturer based in Peterborough. This is an initial 12 month contract position.

Rate of pay

This role will pay up to £30.63 per hour PAYE / £41.57 per hour UMBRELLA (inside IR35).

Duties of the role/Responsibilities

• Develop and produce program and/or project management schedules using Microsoft Project.
• Management and accountability for the portfolio of projects
• Monitoring project progress and performance
• Regular stakeholder reporting
• Proven risk management experience
• Work with partners, monitor progress, to ensure project delivered in a timely manner on budget.
• Attend business meetings with partners
• Resource management – Provide input for staffing and support of programs and create accurate and detailed resource-loaded project schedules
• Management of project/programme budgets
• Maintains program level issues/action logs, risk registers, scope change requests/logs, program schedules, and program cost tracking.

Education/Experience

• A college or university degree is required or 3-5 years of progressively related experience in the project management field.
• This position requires proven experience with project management concepts, including project charters, scheduling and planning projects and successful completion experience.
• Provide leadership in the development and updates of program and project management schedules.
• Excellent interpersonal skills are required in order to deal with sensitive issues, develop others, or influence others inside and outside the department to take specific actions.
• Should have strong project management skills, team leadership skills, excellent communication skills, ability to multitask effectively, strong analytical and organizational skills.

Desirable

• Project resource loading/portfolio resource management and project/portfolio cost management experience is highly desirable.
• Prince 2/PMP or equivalent qualification is highly desired
• The incumbent has the ability to lead and motivate people and encourage teamwork, an ability to communicate effectively with senior management
• Must possess extensive knowledge of project management software (MS Project experience desirable) MS Office (Excel/Word/Powerpoint), Adobe Acrobat, and Web Publishing tools. Good Excel skills are vital (complex formulas, linking multiple worksheets, pivot tables, graphs).

Please note our client cannot assist with any visa sponsorship and candidates must have the correct and current visa to live and work in the UK.