Project Manager – Powered Access Equipment

Miller’s Recruitment; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a skilled professional to lead complex projects in the powered access sector. This role requires a strong technical background, exceptional leadership, and communication skills to guide multi-disciplinary teams. You will be responsible for ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards while maintaining effective stakeholder relationships. The company values employee development, offering training and a supportive work environment. If you are ready to make a significant impact in a dynamic field, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Company Pension

Holiday Allowance of 32 Days

Job Specific Uniform & Tooling

Training in City & Guilds Accredited Academy

Company Wide Fun Days

Charity Events

Regular Staff Treats

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering large-scale, complex projects across full lifecycle.
• Knowledge of UK technical and regulatory frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-disciplinary teams to drive successful project outcomes.
• Conduct pre and post installation surveys ensuring high standards.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Technical Expertise

Problem-Solving Skills

Communication Skills

Education

NEBOSH / IOSH Accreditation

Tools

Powered Access Equipment

Job description

The Role

We’re looking for an experienced professional with a proven track record in delivering large-scale, complex projects across the full project lifecycle. This role requires strong technical, leadership, and communication skills to effectively lead multi-disciplinary teams and drive successful outcomes within the powered access sector. Field Based, travelling to sites throughout the UK with occasional visits to head office.

Key Responsibilities:

• In-depth understanding of major project delivery processes, from work winning and bid development through to project closeout.
• Strong working knowledge of UK technical and regulatory frameworks, as well as awareness of global best practices.
• A clear focus on process safety, quality assurance, and environmental compliance.
• Significant expertise in project controls – including scheduling, cost control, risk management, and change management.
• Agile, innovative, and highly collaborative approach to problem-solving and team leadership.
• Confident in client-facing environments, with a strong ability to develop, influence, and maintain effective stakeholder relationships.
• Complete pre installation surveys to identify any potential issues, M&E upgrades, access/egress problems etc.
• Complete post installation surveys and handovers ensuring all installations are carried out to a high standard
• Produce detailed engineering reports
• Undertake additional tasks relevant to the position as needed.

What We’re Looking For:

• A full UK driving licence.
• NEBOSH / IOSH accreditation would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of working at height, manual handling, and H&S.
• Hands-on experience with Powered access equipment.
• Experience with safe electrical works.
• Relevant engineering experience.

Skills & Competencies:

• Strong leadership skills – guiding and supporting your team effectively.
• Technical expertise – ensuring high-quality installations and service.
• Problem-solving skills – overcoming field challenges with confidence.
• Excellent communication – working with colleagues and clients efficiently.
• Ability to train and develop others to enhance team performance.

Company Information

Who are we?
Miller’s Vanguard are proud to have been supporting all the UK’s Supermarket chains for over 40 years, in brief, we are the people in the background ensuring that supermarkets keep the Nation fed! Maintaining a wide and varied range of assets from food production equipment through to loading bay lifts.

Our service are as follows: –

• Nationwide reactive maintenance
• Hygienic Deep cleaning & Planned maintenance services
• Refurbishment, logistics and installation of equipment

We do all of this with the firm foundations of being owned by the global Ali Group, whose turnover is in excess of £4 billion p.a.

Our people
Despite being a large operation here at Miller’s Vanguard we still firmly believe in running the business like we have done for the last 40 years, by valuing our biggest asset we have YOU…the employee.

Our team of over 500 employees have the advantage of working in state-of-the-art working environments: –

• New (2021) Technical response centre
• Award Winning research, Innovation, and recycling facility
• Industry leading Mercedes Benz fleet

We believe in providing you with the very best environment and tools to do the job.

Career Development
Training is also a huge part of our culture here at Miller’s Vanguard and our City and Guilds accredited training centre is where we coach and develop our employees regardless of your position or your length of service, we want to make sure that our staff can progress and keep pace with ever changing equipment technologies.

Why Join Us

• Training in our City & Guilds accredited academy
• Job Specific Uniform & tooling for all roles
• Company wide fun days and charity events
• Company Pension
• Holiday allowance of 32 days per year
• Regular staff ‘treats’ for employees and their families