Project Manager
Ford & Stanley Talentwise
Job Description
Project Manager – Rolling Stock Overhaul
Location: Treforest, South Wales
Salary: £45,000 to £55,000 DOE
Hours: 37.5 per week
Working Pattern:
- Monday to Thursday: 08:30 to 17:00
- Friday: 08:30 to 14:30
- Flexible working options available
Benefits:
- 34 days annual leave
- Free travel across the rail network
- Healthcare Cash Plan
- Flexible working arrangements
- Early finish every Friday
- Career progression within a growing rail engineering business
The Opportunity
Ford & Stanley are partnered with a leading rolling stock engineering organisation following continued growth and new contract awards.
As Project Manager, you'll lead rolling stock overhaul and heavy maintenance projects from planning through to completion, ensuring safe, on time and profitable delivery. Working closely with customers and operational teams, you'll play a key role in supporting fleet reliability across the UK rail network.
What You'll Be Doing
- Managing rolling stock overhaul and heavy maintenance projects from inception through to completion
- Developing and maintaining project plans, schedules, budgets and resource forecasts
- Translating customer requirements and contractual commitments into achievable delivery programmes
- Leading project governance activities, progress reviews and stakeholder meetings
- Managing project performance against programme, cost, quality and safety objectives
- Coordinating multidisciplinary teams across engineering, operations, procurement and commercial functions
- Acting as the primary customer contact throughout the project lifecycle
- Identifying and mitigating project risks while managing issues, change requests and contract variations
- Monitoring project KPIs and preparing regular reports for customers and senior management
- Ensuring compliance with all health, safety, quality and regulatory requirements
- Supporting tender and business development activities where required
- Driving continuous improvement and capturing lessons learned to improve future project delivery
What We're Looking For
Essential
- Degree qualified in Engineering or hold a recognised Project Management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2)
- Proven experience delivering projects within engineering, manufacturing, rail or rolling stock environments
- Strong understanding of project governance, planning, budgeting and full project lifecycle delivery
- Strong commercial awareness with experience managing project costs, risks and performance
- Excellent stakeholder management, customer relationship and communication skills
- Highly organised with strong planning, problem solving and decision making abilities
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project
Desirable
- Experience managing overhaul, refurbishment or heavy maintenance programmes
- IOSH or equivalent Health & Safety qualification
- Leadership or management qualification (e.g. ILM)
Why Apply?
This is an opportunity to join a respected and growing rail engineering organisation at a time of significant investment and expansion.
You'll be trusted to lead meaningful projects, work with major industry customers and play a key role in the continued success of the business. In return, you'll receive a competitive salary, excellent benefits package and genuine opportunities for professional development and career progression.
If you're an experienced Project Manager looking to make an impact within the rolling stock sector, we'd love to hear from you.
About ford & Stanley group
Ford & Stanley Talent Services Group are in the business of people and performance. Our mission is to create one million better workdays through facilitating great recruitment, leadership and occupational mental fitness. We support our clients in their most challenging business areas - recruiting, developing and retaining the best talent from shop floor to boardroom.
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Ford & Stanley Talent Services Group Ltd is a Disability Confident employer that is committed to a policy of equal opportunities for all opportunity seekers. We shall adhere to such a policy at all times and will review on an on-going basis all aspects of recruitment to avoid unlawful or undesirable discrimination. We will treat everyone equally irrespective sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, age, disability, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief or political beliefs and we place an obligation upon all staff to respect and act in accordance with the policy.
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