Project Manager
Full job description
Mobile Technical Staff - Technical & Engineering
Salary: £45,600 per year
POSITION: Project Manager
REPORTING TO: Senior Project Manager
BASIC RESPONSIBILITIES
* Responsible for managing the completion of project deliverables and ensuring the overall success of a new major contract for the rail business
Specific Responsibilities
* Deliver the project to the agreed success criteria
* Be the main point of contact for the customer and control the communications
* Take responsibility for improvements in efficiency, product quality and costs, striving continuously to achieve excellence in all areas
* Ensure that client’s operations image is a positive one from both within the business and outside in areas such as customer service, housekeeping and the continuous drive to delight the customer
* Ensure that activities conform to regulatory procedures, codes of conduct and approvals
* Ensure that all decision making is in line with the company’s policies and strategies and protects the company’s and customer’s interests at all times
* Adopt and encourage a leadership style that promotes openness, problem ownership, devolved decision making and team working
* Motivate and drive project coherence within the project team
Skills
* Good engineering based degree preferably with a production engineering bias or equivalent substantial experience
* Experience in managing high volume projects
* Repair and overhaul experience would be advantageous
* Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
* Well developed presentation and communication skills
* Strong customer focus and understanding of commercial realities and implications
* Assertive leader, able to raise personal game under pressure.
* Well-developed negotiating skills based upon good technical and commercial understanding and pragmatism where necessary
* Visible and approachable. Builds trust and operates with integrity and openness
* Intellectually strong in terms of understanding concepts, producing persuasive arguments and defending strategic and tactical decision making
Term
* The role is contract specific and is a fixed term position
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