Project Manager

Project Manager Milton Keynes Up to £65,000 Permanent

The Opportunity:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an adaptable and innovative Project Manager to coordinate complex, fast-moving projects and drive momentum within a dynamic, high-demand environment. With a full order book for the next few years and approximately 80 rolling stock vehicles on-site at a time, you ll oversee projects through their entire lifecycle, ensuring exceptional delivery standards under ever-changing scenarios.

This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives in uncertainty, can manage demanding clients, and relishes the opportunity to influence outcomes. You ll bring fresh ideas to a traditional industry, foster strong relationships with your team, and make a visible impact on nationally significant rail projects. The role offers variety, challenge, and the satisfaction of shaping processes, driving efficiency, and delivering results in a booming sector.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the full lifecycle of projects, ensuring safety, quality, cost, and delivery standards.
• Build strong relationships with clients, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.
• Oversee project scope, risk management, financial oversight, and variation control.
• Monitor key milestones, optimise resources, and lead your team to success.
• Develop processes that drive continual improvement and efficiency.
• Coordinate with clients and teams in a fast-moving, complex environment to ensure seamless project delivery.

The Candidate: You will have:

• Experience in manufacturing or heavy technical engineering industries.
• Traditional Project Management qualifications, such as APM.
• Proven expertise in managing complex projects through their entire lifecycle.
• Proficiency in software including Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, and SAP.
• Strong interpersonal skills to build relationships with demanding clients and cross-functional teams.
• An innovative mindset with the confidence to deal with uncertainty and make things happen.

Location: Milton Keynes - On-site a minimum of three days per week, two days remote, to meet business needs.

Salary: Up to £65,000 plus annual car allowance.

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.