UK Trainee Project Manager - Halifax Fan

Halifax Fan Ltd; Brighouse; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Trainee Project Manager to support project managers in delivering large and complex projects on time and within budget. This role involves creating and maintaining project plans and budgets, conducting project reviews, and ensuring clear communication with stakeholders. The ideal candidate will possess strong cross-functional working skills and an engineering or technical degree. This is an excellent opportunity to develop a project management culture within a dynamic environment, where your contributions can significantly impact project success.

Benefits

Signing on bonus (£2,000)

Immediate £500 bonus

Further bonuses after 3 and 6 months

Qualifications

• Support Project Managers in delivering projects on time and within budget.
• Create and maintain project plans, schedules, and budgets.

Responsibilities

• Identify and drive plans for customer deliverables and project success.
• Monitor project budgets and ensure compliance with safety policies.

Skills

Cross Functional Working Skills

Effective Communication Skills

Organisational Skills

Education

Engineering/Technical Degree

Tools

Project Management Tools

Job description

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Signing on bonus (£2,000): A new employee (from 5 May 2023) will be immediately paid a £500 bonus. After 3 months continuous service with Halifax Fan, with no unauthorized absences, a further bonus of £500 will be paid. After a further 3 months service, again with no unauthorized absences (6 months in total) they will receive a further £1,000 bonus.

Location: Brighouse UK

Reporting to: Functional and Hierarchical Manager, Head of Projects

Purpose of role: To support the Project managers to ensure delivery of projects on time and within budget through the effective use of PM tools and understanding of the agreement between Halifax-Fan and its customer, always managing the interests of the company. The Trainee Project Manager (TPM) must act, along with the Project manager, as the Customer representative on site, and is responsible for ensuring Barriers (risks) to project success are identified and addressed timely. This is a cross functional role.

Quality, Cost, Delivery & Safety (QCDS) responsibilities

1. Quality: Identify Customer deliverables, and drive a plan that ensures they are met.
2. Cost: Monitor Project Budgets, agreed with Functional Heads. Drive conclusion to meet or exceed the budget.
3. Delivery: Drive delivery of commitments by the project team and escalate as required to ensure risks are understood and addressed.
4. Safety: Maintain and Ensure compliance for the Group HSE Policy.

Key Requirements and Responsibilities:

• Support Project managers in delivering large and/or complex projects on time and within budget.
• Create and maintain comprehensive cross functional project plans and schedules.
• Create and maintain functional budgets for the completion of projects.
• Conduct planned and intervention project reviews during execution of projects to establish mitigating and corrective actions as required.
• Liaise with Customers during the execution of a project to facilitate completion of all deliverables, including approvals and contract closure.
• Ensure contractual clarity within the business and seek contract (e.g. specification) changes as required.
• Keep all stakeholders (especially the Customer) appraised of progress as required.
• Maintain and develop a project management culture within the company.
• This role requires Cross Functional working skills.

Knowledge, Skill or Ability required:

• Engineering/Technical degree - Preferred.
• Ability to work across disciplines with effective communication skills.
• Organised approach to work.