Project Manager

Overview

In this Project Manager role, you will lead complex service and overhaul projects from start to finish within Sulzer’s Leeds Service Centre, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery with a focus on safety and customer satisfaction. You will coordinate cross-functional teams and manage risks, schedules, and commercial opportunities to optimize asset performance for clients in energy and industrial sectors. You will build lasting partnerships by delivering reliable, high-quality service and responding to critical site outages. This position offers hands-on project leadership in a global engineering environment with a strong emphasis on safety and performance.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salary
• annual bonus
• private medical insurance
• Health Cash Plan
• 33 days’ holiday
• Defined pension contribution

Responsibilities

• Lead project delivery from initiation to close-out
• Serve as main client contact for key accounts
• Coordinate engineering, operations, procurement and field service teams
• Monitor schedules, budgets, risks and resources
• Ensure safe, profitable delivery aligned with customer expectations
• Provide regular progress updates to customers and internal stakeholders
• Identify commercial opportunities and project variations
• Support outage planning and execution at customer sites
• Build relationships to secure repeat business and long-term partnerships

Key requirements

• Proven project management experience in engineering, manufacturing, maintenance or industrial services
• Experience managing customer-facing projects with commercial accountability
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Excellent planning and organisational abilities
• Proactive problem solving and risk management
• Knowledge of rotating equipment, pumps, motors or related industrial systems (advantageous)
• Project Management qualification (APM, PRINCE2 or equivalent) desirable

• Stakeholder management
• Communication
• Proactive problem solving
• Project management methods (APM/PRINCE2 or equivalent)
• Understanding of rotating equipment (pumps, motors)
• Risk management

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