Project Manager
26 days ago
North Shields
Baltic Recruitment are delighted to be continuing our partnership with OsecoElfab, a global manufacturer specialising in engineered rupture discs and explosion venting solutions for high-hazard industrial environments to assist with their search for a Project Manager. \n \n Key Duties: \n Major Customer / EPC Project Delivery: \n\n • Lead customer-facing major project execution from order acceptance through to delivery, documentation completion, shipment, and project close-out.\n, • Act as the primary project interface between OsecoElfab and the customer's project team, including EPC contractors, end-user representatives, inspectors, and appointed third-party stakeholders.\n, • Translate customer project requirements into clear internal actions, deliverables, schedules, responsibilities, and communication plans.\n, • Develop and maintain project plans, milestone schedules, action trackers, risk registers, communication records, and project status reports.\n, • Coordinate internal project activities across Commercial, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Planning, Logistics, and Finance.\n, • Ensure technical, quality, documentation, inspection, certification, testing, packaging, shipping, and commercial requirements are understood and delivered.\n, • Monitor project progress against customer milestones, contractual commitments, internal delivery dates, and agreed project deliverables.\n, • Identify project risks, constraints, and bottlenecks early, ensuring mitigation actions are agreed, owned, tracked, and escalated where required.\n, • Manage customer-facing project changes, including scope clarification, schedule impacts, documentation changes, inspection changes, and commercial variation requests.\n, • Support structured project reviews, customer progress meetings, internal project meetings, and formal project close-out reviews.\n\n Internal Cross-Functional Coordination: \n\n • Drive alignment between internal functions to ensure customer project requirements are delivered in a coordinated and controlled manner.\n, • Work closely with Commercial and Sales teams to ensure customer commitments, contractual requirements, and project expectations are clearly understood.\n, • Coordinate Engineering deliverables, technical clarification responses, drawing approvals, design reviews, and customer documentation submissions.\n, • Work with Quality to ensure inspection and test plans, certification, compliance requirements, customer hold points, and final documentation packs are delivered on time.\n, • Partner with Supply Chain to monitor supplier deliverables, special material requirements, outsourced processes, and vendor documentation.\n, • Coordinate with Manufacturing and Planning to ensure production schedules, capacity constraints, testing requirements, and shipment dates are visible and managed.\n, • Ensure project actions are clearly assigned, followed up, and closed in line with agreed project timing.\n\n Customer Communication & Stakeholder Management: \n\n • Provide clear, timely, and professional communication to customer project teams on project status, risks, actions, and required decisions.\n, • Prepare and issue customer-facing project reports, meeting agendas, minutes, action logs, and progress updates.\n, • Manage customer expectations around schedule, documentation, technical clarifications, inspection points, and delivery commitments.\n, • Act as the escalation point for project coordination issues, ensuring concerns are resolved quickly and constructively.\n, • Represent OsecoElfab in customer project meetings, internal leadership reviews, and cross-functional project forums.\n\n General Project Management: \n\n • Support the delivery of capital machinery projects, internal operational improvement projects, and new product development projects as required.\n, • Apply consistent project management principles including scope definition, planning, governance, risk management, resource coordination, and performance tracking.\n, • Support the development and use of project management tools, dashboards, templates, stage-gate processes, and standard work.\n, • Contribute to continuous improvement of project delivery processes, project visibility, cross-functional accountability, and lessons learned.\n\n Project Governance, Reporting & Continuous Improvement: \n\n • Maintain accurate project records, including project plans, schedules, risk registers, meeting minutes, action trackers, change logs, and customer communication records.\n, • Develop and maintain project KPIs relating to on-time delivery, milestone adherence, documentation performance, customer satisfaction, and issue resolution.\n, • Support project prioritisation, capacity visibility, and management reporting across the active project portfolio.\n, • Ensure lessons learned are captured and used to improve future project execution.\n, • Promote a culture of ownership, transparency, accountability, and disciplined project execution.\n\n The Package: \n\n • Competitive salary on offer, depending on level of experience.\n, • 37.5 hours per week, Monday-Friday.\n, • Company pension scheme.\n, • Private health care.\n, • Life assurance.\n, • Quarterly bonus scheme potential.\n, • Additional benefits.\n