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