We're truly excited to be recruiting, exclusively, for this interesting business who would like to recruit a Project lead within the Rail/Electrical sector.

Please find all the details below:

Job Title: Project Lead

Salary: £70,000 - £75,000 + 10% performance bonus

Location: Folkestone, Kent with travel required to the London office and occasional travel to France

Hybrid: Yes, 3 days in the office, 2 days working from home

Hours: Monday - Friday, 37.5 hours a week. Your new Manager is really flexible when you work your hours, start and finish times.

Your next company can offer you the following brilliant benefits:

* 25 days annual leave
* 10% performance bonus paid March
* A salary review each year based on inflation
* Health insurance
* Medical screening
* Life insurance

Job Overview:

As the Project Lead, you will assist the Performance Manager to lead the development and implementation of the long-term maintenance strategy and successful management of major projects through to completion.

This role focuses on major change projects and asset management strategies. This includes ensuring that any capability required to respond to urgent issues is procured, maintained and immediately available. The role will also support the Performance Manager in meeting wider business goals, change management and ensuring ongoing regulatory compliance.

As the Project lead your key responsibilities will be:

* Assist the Performance Manager in the delivery of major projects including:

* Assist in the scoping and initiation of major projects as required by the business including working with the wider team and stakeholders to agree deliverables
* Assist in the management of any associated contracts with third party service providers, to ensure that projects are delivered on time and on budget
* Identify project team requirements to ensure they are completed to time and agreed budgets
* Assist in ensuring that all project risks are properly identified, understood, catalogued and mitigated
* Monitor the contractor's performance against agreed project milestones and provide verification to the Performance Manager that work claimed on invoices has been undertaken and is in line with the contract
* Assist in the management of any contractual disputes, should they arise.
* Report on major projects to the Commercial and Regulation Leadership team
* Assist with the closure of major projects ensuring they are acceptable to the business requirements
* Assist in the review the of the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) maintenance strategy, particularly in respect of long-term cable containment, and formulate a strategy to replace components which may degrade over time
* Work with the wider Operations and Maintenance team to input into the process of preparing "Plan on a Shelf" documents for various cable and converter fault scenarios
* Based on contract experience, be a contributor to the preparation of Monitoring, Maintenance and Repair contract documents for the cable installation which needs to be in place before the end of the cable warranty period

Experience required:

* Experience in managing projects within an operational business, preferably in an electrical or railway related industry.
* Experience in a similar role at an windfarm, transmission system operator or power generator
* Basic knowledge of operational and maintenance requirements
* Good understanding of the importance of HVDC
* Experience of preparing contract documents and monitoring contractors
* Educated to degree level (or equivalent) in Mechanical or Electrical engineering or other relevant qualification and/or work experience
* Project Management qualification such as PRINCE2 and/or significant experience of working on similar projects.
* Knowledge of French would be advantageous, but not essential:

Next steps:

If you have the above skills and experience then please apply today - this is such an incredible opportunity where you can really grow your career at this company.

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Please note if your skills match the requirements for the job then you will receive an e-mail from us (remember to check your junk mail). If you do please call us on 01233 611780 ASAP or within 24 hours to discuss the position in further detail with Bonnie (Candidate Manager) or Nicola (Permanent Consultant).

We look forward to your application.

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