Project Manager

Location: Harrogate

Hours: Full time, 40 hours per week

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 for leading 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 projects within the predefined budget
• Provide effective leadership and management controls, set project controls, design the project structure and organisation appropriate to stage
• Set appropriate delivery methodologies and manage effective transition between project phases
• Identify and manage stakeholder relationships and need for senior level support, managing 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 escalate 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, leading by example and promoting effective individual and team performance
• Show commitment to personal development, cascading vision and translating it into delivery objectives for the team
• Identify and set appropriate Project Controls, managing performance and reporting progress to sponsors

About You

We'd love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you'd be able to perform well in this role!

• 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 solving principles 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.

You may have experience in the following: Project Manager, Rail Project Manager, Engineering Project Manager, Project Delivery Manager, Programme Manager, Project Lead, Network Rail, Tier 1 rail delivery, Railway engineering, APM PMQ, PRINCE2 Practitioner, Stakeholder management, Change management, Risk management, Budget management, Project governance