Rail Project Manager: End-to-End Delivery & Stakeholder Lead

Unipart; Harrogate; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days holiday

Pension

Life assurance

Employee assistance programme

Wellbeing support

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

Unipart is recruiting a Project Manager in Harrogate to drive end-to-end delivery of railway projects, reporting to the Operations Manager. You will lead multi-disciplined teams, manage budgets, and act as the central liaison with internal and external partners to ensure on-time, high-quality outcomes.

The role requires formal PM qualifications, experience in complex rail engineering projects, and strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• Formal qualification in Project Management, ideally APM PMQ or Prince 2 practitioner
• Experience in managing complex engineering projects across the entire project lifecycle, ideally in the Rail industry
• Proven ability to demonstrate a drive for results and accountability of business needs
• Technical curiosity and commercial awareness
• Excellent customer and communication skills supported by good commercial understanding
• Exceptional planning and prioritisation skills, keen drive for rapid delivery
• An engineering background would be highly advantageous particularly in the Rail Industry (with knowledge and experience of dealing with Network Rail and Tier 1 delivery teams)
• Strong team player - able to manage multiple stakeholders in a collaborative manner
• Quality and Customer focused
• Confident and self motivated with the ability to adapt to change and manage multiple projects and priorities autonomously
• Ability to apply problem solving principles to project challenges

Responsibilities

• Create and lead internal company projects to deliver agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints to meet the demands of the main internal projects
• Day to day management and leadership of projects, delivering to and tracking projects within the predefined budget
• Provide effective leadership and management controls, set project controls, design the project structure and organisation appropriate to stage
• Set appropriate delivery methodologies and manage effective transition between project phases
• Identify and manage stakeholder relationships and need for senior level support, managing internal and external relationships as appropriate
• Ensure that internal and external communication with stakeholders is identified, monitored and controlled
• Identify and monitor project risks and issues, develop mitigating actions and escal at as appropriate
• Identify and work with related projects to manage interdependencies
• Support effective governance and decision making
• Provide reporting and engage in mechanisms that hold you, as Project Manager, to account for delivery
• Engage with assurance reviews and support action on recommendations
• Organise assurance processes such as gateway reviews, as required
• Ensure effective Change Management processes are in place to agree and document changes to deliverables as agreed with stakeholders
• Provide support, guidance and coaching for the project team, leading by example and promoting effective individual and team performance
• Show commitment to personal development, cascading vision and translating it into delivery objectives for the team
• Identify and set appropriate Project Controls, managing performance and reporting progress to sponsors

Skills

Project leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Planning & prioritisation

Risk management

Problem solving

Education

APM PMQ or PRINCE2

Job description

Unipart is recruiting a Project Manager in Harrogate to drive end-to-end delivery of railway projects, reporting to the Operations Manager. You will lead multi-disciplined teams, manage budgets, and act as the central liaison with internal and external partners to ensure on-time, high-quality outcomes.

The role requires formal PM qualifications, experience in complex rail engineering projects, and strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.