Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe.

We are seeking a highly organised and motivated Project Manager to join our proactive and innovative team aligned to the Transport and Manufacturing industries.

The Project Manager will be expected to lead cross functional teams to deliver maximum value to the business and our customers.

The focus of the role will be on the effective coordination of activities leading to the successful delivery of projects on time and to budget.

The Project Manager will liaise closely with other key roles in the organisation (e.g. Sales, Programme Delivery Lead, Capability Leads and Engineers) to ensure the project meets the needs of the business.

This role offers the opportunity to work with multiple industry-leading companies in the fields of Rail (both signalling and rolling stock), Advanced Manufacturing and other technical manufacturing organisations.

The role is hybrid and therefore will need travel to client sites across UK, work with the Expleo Transport & Manufacturing team, attend Expleo locations for F2F meetings - as well as offering work-from-home options.

The Project Manager will have full responsibility for project results in the context of delivery to cost, quality, schedule and stakeholder satisfaction.

• Is able to maintain excellent working relationships with our customers and colleagues
• Can problem-solve to ensure contractual issues are faced head-on and taken to resolution
• Team-oriented, will roll their sleeves up and take a leadership position on their projects.
• Creates project schedules and drives projects in cooperation with stakeholders.
• Executes project within the defined requirements (e.g. regarding targets for project cost, time, quality, functionality and customer satisfaction).
• Ensures business success and satisfaction of the customer by professional stakeholder management.
• Ensures timely decisions about open issues, escalating if necessary.
• Manages and ensures compliance to standards, working laws, rules and regulations, intellectual property rights.
• Performs risk and opportunity management.
• Performs budget and resource planning as well as generation of project agreement for project.
• Aligns project targets with customer strategy (e.g. product portfolio, technology roadmap).
• Drives a continuous improvement culture including e.g. reuse, cooperation, knowledge management, lessons learned.
• Ensures appropriate Project documentation.
• Incorporates customer feedback during project execution

• Professional accreditation with recognised body such as APM, PMI (Chartered, Member)
• APM PMQ/PPQ, Prince2 or equivalent
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, or a related field.