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Senior Project Manager - Engineering

Job Introduction

Are you a Senior Project Manager or Project Manager looking for your next permanent role?  Then we may have just the role for you.

At Tarmac, ‘who you are’ matters.  We want to get to know you.  If you share our values and are proud of a job well done, collaborative in working well with others and ambitious to make things better, then have a read of what we have on offer. 

We are recruiting for a Senior Project Manager to join our fantastic team based at our Tunstead Quarry site, close to Buxton in Derbyshire. The role is easily commutable from Buxton, Macclesfield, Stockport, Dronfield, Manchester, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Leek, Stoke-on-Trent, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derby, Congleton and the surrounding areas.

Here at Tarmac, we are working hard to create a dynamic and inclusive environment and it’s important that our people come from a variety of different backgrounds.

Role Responsibility

Reporting to the Projects Manager you as the Senior Project Manager will lead and motivate on new and developing projects and our site at Tunstead. You will be responsible for the entire lifecycle of both new and developing projects, from conception & scoping, through tendering, selection, execution, handover to the business and will ensure that they are delivered safely, efficiently, on budget, to the highest standards; and that the specified performance is achieved to ensure that the business achieves maximum value from our extensive reserves, in the short and long term.  Projects you will be engaged in will be multi million pound expenditure, so experience of this is paramount in this role.

As the successful candidate for the role of Senior Project Manager; you will be able to demonstrate previous experience in a Project Management role (not exhaustive).

  • Manage the investment budget on your projects
  • Responsible for the safety of site staff and contractors delivering your projects under the 2015 CDM Regulations
  • Responsible for financial control of the investments, for your Projects from conception through to handover
  • Ensuring the projects deliver all the objectives as set out in the initial justification of the investment
  • Managing the project team ensuring resource and competencies are sufficient to achieve the expected outcome over a varied program of projects
  • You will provide engineering advice and support to the site for problem solving, process design, operational improvements and statutory inspections
  • Responsible for all the projects in your package of works to ensure the projects are managed with zero harm and to achieve financial budget, program and business objectives in a safe and professional manner
  • Manage your projects to achieve the lowest cost of ownership possible
  • Apply Project Management and Engineering skills to identify opportunities for cost saving in your projects and develop innovative solutions
  • Lead, develop and inspire colleagues on your projects to cultivate high performing, competent teams
  • Ability to deliver excellent performance and influence internal and external stakeholders to deliver positive results will be fully utilised in this role

Key Stakeholders you will liaise within the responsibilities of this role:

Regional Directors – Regional Managers – Maintenance Managers - Health & Safety team - Procurement and support teams - Area Operations teams - Area Commercial teams - Area HR Manager - Industry Bodies - Customers

The Ideal Candidate

As the Senior Project Manager, you will possess excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office.

  • Hold a relevant role related degree or be QBE
  • IOSH or NEBOSH
  • CAD experience would prove highly beneficial but not essential
  • Linking new designs with Business As Usual(BAU)
    • Ensuring design are practical and useable
    • Safety and Environmental concerns are eliminated through good application of design
  • Designs and the application of, meet permits and planning conditions
  • Excellent drawing and document management focus
  • Sharing and explaining drawings to key stake holders
  • Ensure clean and timely transition from Project to BAU
  • Cement production or other heavy pyro / mineral processing experience will be an advantage - although not essential

You must have a FULL UK manual car driving license with no more than 6 points

Why Us

In addition to the role of Senior Project Manager we offer an extensive range of career development opportunities and industry-leading rewards, incentives, and benefits:

  • Bonus scheme 
  • Enhanced holiday entitlement 
  • Contributory pension scheme 
  • Access to the Tarmac Reward website with discounts on retailers, holidays, etc. 
  • Access to our Employee Assistance helpline for free and confidential advice 
  • Access to join our Employee Communities (employee networks) we currently have nine communities inc. (REACH) Religious, Ethnic, Cultural Heritage, LGBTQ+, Parents & Carers, Ability, Wellbeing, Female Voice, and Menopause
  • Training and development opportunities 

Interested? Why not click here to find out more?  Go on… are you ready to build your future?

Tarmac is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive work environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please click on the apply button to complete your application. Occasionally we receive a large volume of applications for our roles and when this happens we sometimes bring the published closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

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