The Project Manager will manage strategic projects across the business, ensuring goals and objectives have been clearly defined and me. Taking accountability that each project has a clear plan for delivery and see it right through to completion all within a timely fashion. Identifying of key milestones, timeframes, dependencies, critical paths and assumptions, ensuring planning standards are followed.
Although the role is predominantly business change, there is a link to IT and there are a number of projects will be around transformation, systems and software upgrades, data migrations and implementations. You will have adept experience of project planning, logging risks and issues and be comfortable presenting information to Stakeholders and Senior members of staff.
Working to methodologies and having a flexible and adaptable approach to work and changing projects. The ideal candidate will have experience of running at least two to three medium sized projects from start to finish. You will now be looking for your next challenge in an expanding business where you can certainly grow your Project Management career further.
The role is hybrid, of two days minimum in the office each week and the rest working from home. There is plenty of local parking and the office is a short walk from a train station.
Skills/experience and attributes required:
- Degree educated
- Minimum of 2-3 years’ experience as a Project Manager
- Strong business change experience
- Exposure to IT projects is desirable
- Prince 2 qualified
- Experience of processes and governance
- Experience of a variety of methodologies is useful
- Strong stakeholder management
- Outstanding communication skills, face to face, verbally and written
- Confident working with Word, Outlook, Teams and Excel
- Strong presentation skills using PowerPoint
- Confident nature, not afraid to make mistakes and problem solve to find the right solution
- Remains calm under pressure
- Flexible, adaptable and open to new ideas and change
- Great listening skills and loves to learn new skills
- Proactive, driven and has a high sense of achievement
My client is looking to recruit an experienced Technical Solutions Manager for their office located in Kent. Working within the principal design and engineering authority and responsible for the full technical lifecycle of solutions delivered by the businesses Project Services business.
The role is a People Manager to lead a technical solutions tower of specialists spanning across design engineering, product support and technical coordination within the energy business. To include high and niche solar power, re-chargeable batteries and nuclear power.
You will be setting the engineering standard for everything within the design, build and maintenance of the assets.
This is an enjoyable and rewardable role as you can see the end product make a real difference to the customer. The organisation is rapidly growing; some elements of the role may change in the future. It’s important you are adaptable and happy working within a changeable environment.
There is hybrid working on offer, two days in the office and three days working from home every week.
Once established in the role, this can become more flexible. Competitive salary, excellent company benefits and on-site parking provided. Exciting opportunity to be part of a successful and growing organisation.
Duties:
- Act as principal design authority for all solutions provided by Project Services (metering, systems, settlement and operational solutions)
- Develop, implement and continuously improve engineering and design guidelines alongside the specialist technicians
- Own and maintain the standard design library
- Act as the final technical authority on design decisions, exception handling and customer specific engineering challenges
- Work closely with the Project Delivery Manager to ensure design outputs are buildable and achievable, to factor in time and cost, Own the technical roadmap
- Oversee evaluation of potential new products or technologies relevant to the market
- Lead or support customer conversations where relevant and to continuously support the sales team
- Lead, develop and manager the technical solutions tower by setting clear objectives, conducting regular one-to-ones and manage performance.
- Supporting the Head of Project Services in the delivery of business plans, contribute technical insight
Experience:
- Degree educated is essential – preferably in Electrical Engineering
- A minimum of 4-5 years People and Team Management and leadership experience
- Experience working with energy metering/power systems or electrical substations and high voltage products
- Strong background in electronics, electrical engineering or similar. Ideally in a product development or systems engineering environment
- Good understanding of the electricity supply industry and grid infrastructure
- Solid understanding of high accuracy metering solutions
- Solid understanding of product safety standards including UKCA compliance
- Working knowledge of Cybersecurity/products and solutions security
- Awareness of IEC 62443 Cyber Security standard is highly desirable
- Previous experience in earlier career of being a technical designer or engineer
- Previous experience of AutoCAD designs
- Experience and knowledge of Waterfall and product management
- Aware of product investment cycles and the value of assets
Leadership and personal qualities:
- Active listens to other viewpoints and involve others in decision making
- Encourage team members to take responsibility
- Motivational and regularly praise achievement, celebrate team success
- Comfortable and confident making decisions and solving problems under pressure
- Understands the relationship between design decisions, build cost and margins
- Proactively shares knowledge across the team
- Confident with own abilities, friendly and approachable people manager
- Adaptable and flexible attitude
A brand-new permanent opportunity for an experienced Product and Supplier Lead to join a rapidly growing Energy organisation. The role is fully remote, and you can be based anywhere within the UK but will be required to meet at one of the office locations once a month for a team meeting.
Based within a wider technical sales team, you will be a strong support to the Business Development Managers, sharing your product knowledge of Solar panels and solar battery storage. Discovering and introducing new Solar providers to the business, confidently presenting to board level and negotiating pricing, whilst starting and then maintaining client relationships. The supplier meetings can be face to face or over Teams.
You will be commercially, technically and analytically minded and be the bridge between technical design and commercial.
This is a hands-on role in shaping the supply-chain and defining the product offerings to enable the business to be a ‘one stop shop’.
Competitive salary, great OTE and excellent company benefits on offer. Due to the company size, there is plenty of opportunity to grow your career further.
Skills/experience/attributes:
- Minimum of three-year experience of solar power/supplier management.
- Strong industry knowledge is essential. Ideally in technical, ex-sales, engineering or pre-construction commercial Solar and or BESS sectors.
- Degree educated
- Confident presenting to board level
- Strong customer focused approach
- Strive to get things right first time
- Excellent problem solver
- Commercial acumen with a solid grasp of project economics
- Proficient in industry standard design and yield modelling software (e.g, AutoCAD, PVSyst or similar)
- Understanding of asset value
- Strong pricing negotiation skills
- A good understanding of equipment warranties
