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Unipart Group; Harrogate; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; 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 Group in Harrogate, United Kingdom, is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of railway projects from concept to client handover. You will coordinate cross-functional internal teams, external contractors, and supply chain partners to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery to high quality standards.

The role requires strong governance, risk management, and stakeholder engagement, with a background in engineering projects within rail.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering railway projects end-to-end.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management.
• PM qualifications (APM PMQ or Prince2) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead internal projects to deliver agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints.
• Oversee day-to-day project management and budgeting.
• Establish project governance, controls and organisation structure.

Skills

Project management

Rail industry

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Budget control

Risk management

Communication

Education

Prince2 Practitioner

APM PMQ

Job description

Salary to be discussed, plus 33 days holiday (including bank holidays), pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits including cycle to work scheme

About the Role

Reporting to the Operations Manager, you will be responsible for the delivery of projects and assigning work tasks, working closely with the engineering task management team. As Project Manager you will be responsible forleading the end-to-end delivery of railway projects, from initial concept through to successful client handover. Acting as the central liaison between cross-functional internal teams, external contractors, and supply chain partners, you will ensure the coordination of all site deliveries. Ultimately, your role is to drive project success and commercial viability, mitigating operational risks, and managing strict budgets to guarantee all projects are consistently delivered on time, and to the highest quality specifications.

As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:

- 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 project within the predefined budget.

- Provide effective leadership and management controls, set project controls, design the project structure and organisation appropriate to stage.

- Identify and manage stakeholder relationships and need for senior level support. Manage 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 escalated 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. Lead by example and promote effective individual and team performance.

- Show commitment to personal development. Cascade vision and translate into delivery objectives for the team.

- Identify and set appropriate Project Controls. Manage performance and report progress to sponsors.

- 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 solvingprinciples to project challenges

About Unipart

We are a supply chain performance improvement partner. We Design, Make, Move, and Improve components in our customers’ supply chains, keeping their operations and assets moving and working better, for longer. Through our commitment to continuously driving operational efficiencies, we improve performance - saving time, cost, and carbon. Our ambition is to be the driving force behind efficient, resilient, and sustainable supply chains.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

We believe that a great workplace is one where you can bring your whole self to work. Our recruitment process is designed to be accessible, inclusive, and based entirely on merit. We define merit through a combination of technical skills and the core behaviours that help our people thrive at Unipart. We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of background or circumstances. We are committed to a policy of equal opportunity that exceeds our statutory obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and subsequent legislation. Whether it’s your age, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, family status, or any other characteristic that makes you ‘you’ - it is your talent and potential that we value most. Adjustments for you: We want you to perform at your best. If you require any reasonable adjustments or have specific accessibility needs at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know. We are here to support you.