Senior Automation Project Manager – Controls & Systems

Samuel Frank

Warrington

On-site

GBP 60,000 - 68,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

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Excellent engineering team

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Job summary

Samuel Frank is recruiting an experienced Project Manager to join a Cheshire-based systems integrator delivering complex controls and automation projects across the process, utilities, manufacturing and nuclear sectors.

You will take commercial and technical responsibility for projects from initial scope and engineering through to installation, commissioning and final handover, working closely with customers and multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Qualifications

Proven experience delivering controls, automation or systems integration projects.
Technical understanding of industrial control systems incl. PLC and SCADA.
Experience managing projects through full lifecycle from scope to handover.
Strong customer and stakeholder management skills.
Experience budgeting and managing stage payments and contractual obligations.
APM/PRINCE2 qualification advantageous.
Full UK driving licence; able to work in the UK without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

Commercial and technical responsibility for delivery of automation and control system projects.
Manage customer requirements, scope, engineering deliverables, budgets and timescales.
Coordinate controls, software and wider engineering resources.
Monitor project costs, stage payments and commercial performance.
Identify project risks and resolve issues.
Support FAT, installation, commissioning and final handover.
Deliver projects across varied blue-chip customers in process, utilities, manufacturing, nuclear.