Your new company

A west Yorkshire-based utilities business working though a multi-million pound transformation project. Enormous growth and development opportunities.

Your new role

Regional travel will be required and so a valid UK driving licence is essential as is you living in commutable distance of West Yorkshire to be considered.

You will take a lead role in owning and driving efficiency and continuous improvement across capital programmes. You will be responsible for leading change activity, working with the business to support innovation and new ways of working. Key activities are identifying improvement opportunities, developing business cases, planning, project managing, communicating, and embedding change, and reporting on continuous improvement activity.

What you'll need to be to succeed

An excellent communicator, both written and verbally, you will be able to present and communicate complex information to a wide range of audiences. You will have proven ability in building up effective relationships with stakeholders and be able to engage with customers internally and externally. Developing and maintaining strong positive business relationships, to understand their needs and recognise opportunities.

You will be able to work within a partnering environment and be able to facilitate, mediate and resolve project issues. You will have experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams through the project life cycle, and experience of managing large workloads of multiple projects concurrently.

You will have a proven track record of project management and planning and financial / budget management. You will have a strong commercial understanding with programme monitoring and expenditure forecasting skills to ensure robust financial and commercial management. You will have business process mapping skills, with the ability to create process flows that drive out waste and are lean and efficient. You will also understand contract management.

You will provide long-term sustainability to the capital programme by integrating project output into the overall Asset Management strategy. This includes meeting our performance commitments, regulatory outputs and ensuring asset care plans are established. It would be advantageous, if you have experience of working with others to drive innovation to deliver project efficiencies and cost savings for the business and will also have experience of establishing supplier frameworks and establishing and setting Key Performance Indicators.

Ideally, you will have experience in some of the following areas:

• Project Management qualification
• Broader utilities, process, or manufacturing industry sectors
• Change Management

What you'll get in return

A permanent hybrid role with a salary of £37 - £46500 per year + performance bonus + excellent pension

What you need to do now
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