Technical Delivery Manager

Spirax Sarco; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

27 days holiday + bank holidays

Private healthcare

Enhanced pension plan

Life assurance

Share Ownership Plan

Onsite parking

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Spirax Sarco, a leading engineering group, seeks a Technical Delivery Manager in Cheltenham to coordinate and deliver strategic digital and services projects across multinational deployments. You will lead cross-functional teams, maintain governance, and drive on-time, in-scope delivery while enabling experts to focus on their domains.

You'll shape scalable delivery practices regionally and contribute to Spirax Group's growth ambitions by delivering innovative customer solutions in the steam and

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing complex technical projects or programmes from initiation through to implementation and handover.
• Strong project management expertise including planning, governance and reporting.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams across boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of strategic technical projects, customer deployments and implementation programmes.
• Develop and maintain project plans, milestones and governance frameworks.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams including Offer Management, Solution Architecture, Engineering, GSAM and regional OpCos.
• Drive accountability for project activities, managing dependencies, risks and delivery challenges.
• Facilitate project reviews, stakeholder meetings and decision-making forums.
• Manage RAID logs, change control processes and delivery reporting.
• Ensure readiness ahead of implementation and deployment.
• Coordinate testing, training, documentation, support and service transition activities.
• Provide concise progress updates to senior stakeholders and sponsors.
• Support scalable delivery practices across regions and programmes.

Skills

Project management

Governance

RAID management

Cross-functional coordination

Stakeholder reporting

Communication

Problem-solving

Delivery leadership

Job description

Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (Hybrid)

The role

Are you an experienced technical project leader who thrives on bringing people, plans and technology together to deliver successful outcomes?

Spirax Group's Steam Thermal Solutions business is looking for a Technical Delivery Manager to lead the coordination and delivery of strategic digital and services projects. Working across multidisciplinary teams, you'll ensure complex technical programmes are delivered on time, within scope and with clear governance, while enabling subject matter experts to focus on their areas of expertise.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in delivering innovative customer solutions, supporting multinational deployments and helping drive the continued growth of our digital services capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of strategic technical projects, customer deployments and implementation programmes.
• Develop and maintain project plans, milestones, critical paths and governance frameworks.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams including Offer Management, Solution Architecture, Engineering, GSAM and regional operating companies.
• Drive accountability for project activities, managing dependencies, risks and delivery challenges.
• Facilitate project reviews, stakeholder meetings and decision-making forums.
• Manage project RAID logs, change control processes and delivery reporting.
• Ensure technical, operational and customer readiness ahead of implementation and deployment.
• Coordinate testing, training, documentation, support and service transition activities.
• Provide clear, concise progress updates and recommendations to senior stakeholders and project sponsors.
• Support the development of scalable delivery practices across regions, business units and multinational programmes.

Essential

Your skills/experience

• Proven experience managing complex technical projects or programmes from initiation through to implementation and handover.
• Strong project management expertise, including planning, governance, RAID management, change control and stakeholder reporting.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary technical teams across organisational and geographical boundaries.
• Ability to understand technical concepts, dependencies and risks, enabling effective coordination of specialist teams.
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and drive accountability without direct authority.
• Excellent communication, organisational and problem-solving skills.

Desirable

• Experience delivering Industrial IoT, connected product, software, SaaS, cloud or data platform solutions.
• Experience within industrial, manufacturing, engineering, energy or process industries.
• Experience supporting multinational customer deployments or cross-divisional programmes.
• Project management qualifications such as PRINCE2, PMP, APM or MSP.
• Knowledge of Agile delivery methodologies.

Join us and help deliver innovative digital and service solutions that create value for customers across the globe while supporting Spirax Group's strategic growth ambitions.

The Steam Thermal Solutions business is one of three businesses within Spirax Group. Spirax Sarco and Gestra, are our two brands that form Steam Thermal Solutions and are global leaders in the supply of engineered solutions for the design, provision and maintenance of efficient industrial and commercial steam systems. Steam Thermal Solutions has global coverage across 67 operating units (called OpCos), organised into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, Gestra.

Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.

Benefits

You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days' paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts' portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below.

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at https://www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments .

We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.