REACH Programme Manager

Randstad Enterprise; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad Enterprise in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Programme Manager to lead the REACH Compliance Programme for protective coating applications on Siemens aeroderivative gas turbines, bringing them into REACH compliance.

You will restore programme governance, drive delivery across four branches, and maintain business continuity while engaging regulators and senior stakeholders. Reporting to the Head of EHS, the role spans four branches and requires decisive leadership.

Qualifications

• Proven senior programme management experience in complex, regulated environments.
• Strong ability to manage multiple workstreams and dependencies.
• Experience engaging regulators and senior stakeholders.
• Proven track record of recovering programmes that have lost momentum.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of the REACH Compliance Programme governance, cadence, controls and milestones.
• Lead integration of four programme branches: materials compliance, business continuity, regulations, transformation.
• Drive timely delivery of product modification plans while protecting customer commitments.
• Challenge delays and competing priorities while maintaining senior stakeholder confidence.
• Engage with regulatory bodies and external stakeholders with robust, timely responses.
• Provide concise reporting to the Managing Director and senior leadership.
• Build credibility across technical, operational, compliance and leadership groups.

Skills

Senior programme management

Stakeholder management

Regulatory compliance

Programme recovery

Executive-level communication

Job description

The Senior Programme Manager will provide overall leadership for the REACH Compliance

Programme, an ongoing strategic programme focused on bringing protective coating

applications used on Siemens aeroderivative gas turbines into compliance with REACH

requirements. The role will be responsible for restoring programme control, driving delivery

across multiple workstreams, maintaining business continuity, and ensuring effective

engagement with regulatory bodies and senior stakeholders.

Reporting line and programme scope

The role reports directly to the Head of EHS and provides oversight across four key

programme branches: materials compliance, business continuity, regulations, and

transformation. Each branch has dedicated programme management support, with the

stakeholder alignment, and delivery assurance.

Key responsibilities

• Take ownership of the overall REACH Compliance Programme and establish clear programme governance, cadence, controls, milestones, and decision-making routes.
• Lead the integration of the four programme branches, ensuring dependencies, risks, actions, resources, and priorities are visible and actively managed.
• Drive the recovery of a complex programme that has lost momentum, creating clarity, pace, accountability, and confidence across internal and external.
• Ensure product modification plans are delivered in a controlled way that protects customer commitments, operational continuity, and regulatory compliance.
• Challenge delays, pushbacks, and competing priorities constructively while maintaining senior stakeholder confidence and alignment.
• Engage effectively with regulatory bodies and external stakeholders, ensuring programme responses are robust, timely, and professionally managed.
• Provide clear reporting to the Managing Director and senior leadership, highlighting progress, risks, escalations, decisions required, and recovery actions.
• Build trust and credibility across technical, operational, compliance, commercial, and leadership communities to secure commitment to

Experience and capability requirements

• Proven senior programme management experience, ideally within complex engineering, manufacturing, energy, aerospace, or other highly regulated programmes with significant compliance, technical, operational, and stakeholder complexity.
• Strong understanding of regulatory compliance programmes; direct REACH experience would be highly advantageous.
• Experience maintaining business continuity while delivering product, process, material, or compliance-related change.
• Ability to operate confidently at Managing Director and senior leadership level, providing concise insight, robust challenge, and clear recommendations.
• Track record of leading through ambiguity, recovering challenged programmes, and creating structure where priorities, ownership, and governance are unclear.
• Strong stakeholder management capability, including the ability to influence senior technical experts, operational leaders, regulatory stakeholders, and demanding internal customers.

Leadership profile

This role requires a leader with resilience, and strong judgement. The successful candidate

must be comfortable dealing with strong personalities, challenging resistance, and holding

stakeholders to account while remaining collaborative and outcome-focused. They must be

able to stand firm under pressure, make balanced decisions in the interests of the

programme, and maintain momentum in the face of adversity.

The ideal candidate will be a highly credible Senior Programme Manager with experience

delivering complex change in a regulated technical environment. They will combine

programme discipline with commercial awareness, regulatory sensitivity, and the confidence

to influence at executive level. They will bring the structure, pace, and leadership needed to

bring the REACH Programme back under control and deliver a compliant, business-