Project Manager

Wabtec Corporation; East Staffordshire; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global transportation solutions provider is seeking a Project Manager to manage project delivery and stakeholder relationships. The role involves ensuring project milestones are met and budgets are maintained in a manufacturing or engineering context. Ideal candidates will have a recognized Project Management qualification and experience leading projects with high business impact. Legal authorization to work in the UK is required.

Qualifications

• Experience in a manufacturing or engineering environment.
• Ability to coordinate and ensure collaboration of multi-site/multi-function teams.
• Proven ability to develop, lead, and implement projects with high business impact.

Responsibilities

• Manage the delivery of projects in line with plans and specifications.
• Be the primary point of contact for stakeholders.
• Monitor costs and control spending against the agreed tenders.
• Lead and coordinate a team to deliver the project execution.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Management

Budget Management

Team Leadership

Communication Skills

Education

Recognised Project Management qualification (PRINCE 2 or APM)

Job description

Overview

As a Project Manager, reporting to the Head of Projects, you will be responsible for managing project progress and adapting work as required, ensuring project milestones are achieved. What will your typical day look like?

Responsibilities

• To manage the delivery of projects in line with plans and that they are delivered in line with specifications set by the customer.
• Manage the relationship with key stakeholders and be the primary point of contact for our customers.
• Ensure project milestones are achieved in support of planned implementation.
• Monitor costs and implement measures to control spending against the agreed tenders.
• Liaising with clients and other project stakeholders.
• Manage and maintain budgets.
• Lead and coordinate a team to deliver the project execution.
• Produce internal reports to the Executive Team on the status of the project.
• Experience in a manufacturing or engineering environment.
• Ability to coordinate and ensure collaboration of multi-site/multi-function teams.
• Proven ability to develop, lead, and implement projects with high business impact.
• Excellent communication skills and matrix leadership experience.
• Financial and data analysis skills.

Qualifications

• Ideally, you will hold a recognised Project Management qualification or equivalent industrial experience (PRINCE 2 or APM).

About the company

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company\'s new website at: http://www.WabtecCorp.com.

Legal authorisation to work in the UK is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening. Please note that we do not accept agency candidate submissions without a formalized agreement with Wabtec Talent Acquisition. If you are an agency/third party Recruiter and have not been engaged by Wabtec for this search, we do not owe you a fee if you submit a candidate to the applicant tracking system that is ultimately hired.