Project Manager (Chemical Industry)

My client is a chemical manufacturing business. For over 30 years, they have supported and supplied government, petroleum, lubricant and specialty chemical industries.

They are a specialty chemicals company with an appetite for growth and change.  They require a high-calibre project manager to ensure the timely and effective delivery of business-critical projects.  This will involve seeing individual projects and programs through their lifecycle from proposal to project closure.

• Be an ambassador for change encouraging our colleagues to embrace and enjoy changes to our business.
• Overall responsibility to manage projects (typically <£1m) as a Professional Project Manager with responsibility for full lifecycle, planning, delivery, and budgeting within a specified timeframe.
• Responsible for Risk Management, mitigating and minimize project risks.
• Responsible for project Change Management.
• Organising the project structure to ensure the project success. Providing strong direction for a small project team and embedding a strong culture of ownership. 
• Overall responsibility for the financial performance and benefits realisation of projects.
• Planning and maintaining project schedule by monitoring project progress including key milestones and tasks, person-hour estimates and material cost goals. 
• Responsible for reporting of the development in the project to multiple stakeholders – steering board, customers and suppliers.
• Ensuring that tasks are coordinated and carried out in line with the operational, health and safety standard practices and procedures, while meeting user/customer expectations.
• Capture and evaluate Project Lessons Learned.

• Prince 2 qualifications or equivalent
• Minimum 3 years Project manager experience from any highly regulated business, ie chemicals/food/pharma/MOD
• Proactive management of live projects and external resources to steer & influence the successful outcome on-time and to budget.
• Capable of delivering complex projects balancing the sometimes conflicting priorities of quality, time, cost and scope.
• Accomplished at delivering projects that require coordination across an SME business.
• Direct people management through influential leadership capabilities. 
• Demonstrates commercial awareness exploring risks and opportunities of the business.
• Good interpersonal skills 
• Ability to handle teams with diverse skills, as well as building positivity within the team.

• Hybrid working, 3 days office and work from home 2 days a week.
• Salary up to £50,000 per annum,
• Excellent benefits package.