Project Manager

Matchtech Group; Nether Stowey; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

8% Employer Pension

Health Cash Plan

Company Bonus

25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays

Job summary

Matchtech Group is seeking a Project Manager for a UK-based nuclear engineering and manufacturing SME. You will own end-to-end delivery from initiation to closeout, coordinating multi-disciplinary teams, managing scope, schedule, budget, risk, and client relations to protect commercial position.

The role requires hands-on governance, strong communication, and mentoring of coordinators in a fast-paced agile SME environment, with site travel to client and supplier locations.

Qualifications

• Core Experience: Proven track record delivering and controlling engineering/technical projects with programme management, client communications, and financial reporting.
• Technical/Commercial acumen with budgets, cost forecasts, and variation control.

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Project Delivery: ownership of execution strategies, programmes, budgets, cost forecasting, risk registers and closeout deliverables.
• Contract & Scope Management: understand contract terms, specs, scope interfaces, acceptance criteria, and key assumptions.
• Project Controls & Governance: establish and maintain controls, logs, risk registers, and progress reports.
• Client & Stakeholder Interface: be the primary daily contact for clients, lead meetings and manage expectations.
• Multi-Disciplinary Coordination: coordinate engineering, workshop fabrication, supply chain, and client activities.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Budget control

Risk management

Communication

Education

HNC/HND or Degree

APM/PRINCE2 (desirable)

Job description

Project Manager

• Location: Bridgwater, Somerset (with client/supplier site travel)

• Type: Full-time (37.5 hours/week)

• Salary/Package: Competitive Salary + 8% Employer Pension, Health Cash Plan, Company Bonus, 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays

• Security Clearance: UK Background Check / Vetting Required

About the Client

Our client is a growing, specialist nuclear engineering and manufacturing SME delivering high-integrity technical solutions, bespoke equipment, and assembly scopes across the UK nuclear sector. Combining agile SME delivery with strict nuclear quality governance, their multidisciplinary teams operate across engineering design, workshop fabrication, supply chain, and client site execution.

Role Overview

The Project Manager has end-to-end accountability for the successful delivery of assigned engineering projects from initialisation through to closeout. Operating in a hands-on, fast-paced environment, this role personally creates project structure and momentum, maintaining tight control over scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, and client relations while protecting the company's commercial position.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-End Project Delivery: Take full ownership of project execution strategies, programmes, budgets, cost forecasting, risk registers, and closeout deliverables for assigned engineering projects.

• Contract & Scope Management: Read, assimilate, and maintain a detailed understanding of contract terms, technical specifications, scope interfaces, acceptance criteria, and key assumptions.

• Project Controls & Governance: Establish and maintain practical project controls, including decision logs, change control records, risk registers, and progress reports.

• Client & Stakeholder Interface: Act as the primary day-to-day point of contact for clients; lead project meetings, coordinate communications, and manage expectations constructively.

• Multi-Disciplinary Coordination: Direct and integrate engineering, workshop fabrication, supply chain, and client activities, testing reported progress against objective evidence.

• Commercial Control: Oversee project finances (cost tracking, forecasting, invoicing, cash collection, and variation management) without making unauthorised commercial or scope commitments.

• Team Mentoring: Support, guide, and develop Project Coordinators in robust project control practices and delivery standards.

Candidate Requirements

• Core Experience: Proven track record personally delivering and controlling engineering or technical projects, including programme management, client communications, and financial reporting.

• Education & Qualifications: HNC/HND, Degree, formal apprenticeship, or equivalent technical background. Recognized project management qualifications (e.g., APM, PRINCE2) are desirable.

• Technical & Commercial Acumen: Confident engaging with engineering drawings, technical specifications, and manufacturing/assembly processes; strong grasp of budgets, cost forecasts, and variation control.

• Communication & Leadership: Clear, concise communicator with the confidence to challenge ambiguity, manage difficult technical/commercial conversations, and escalation risks early.

• Working Style: Resilient, self-motivated, and highly organized with a "can-do" ownership mindset suited to an agile SME environment.