Project Manager – Cammell Laird, Birkenhead

This role depends on robust Project Management, Leadership, Strategic Insight, and a Continuous Improvement Mindset, someone to lead and deliver complex, high-value Manufacturing and Modular Build projects in a facility with customer on site presence.

You'll come with a Ship Building / Senior Vessel Engineering / Heavy Fabrication / Heavy Modular Construction background to play a critical part where you'll both roll up your sleeves and operate as part of the Senior Leadership Team.

Who are we?

Part of APCL Group, Cammell Laird is known across the globe. Our strategically located facility on the River Mersey operates across 5 core markets: defence refit and repair, commercial refit and repair, defence newbuild projects, commercial newbuild projects and energy.

Across 90 acres we operate four dry docks, a large modular construction hall and extensive covered workshops. We've played a strategic role in UK shipbuilding for the past 200 years.

So, what will you do?

• You'll be the senior accountable owner for the relationship of your project with your customer, a MoD prime contractor leading and managing a complex project with full accountability for budget, timeline, risk, and stakeholder management
• Interpreting complex technical, commercial, and legal documentation you'll ensure design engineering and stringent quality gates to anticipate risk and provide actionable recommendations
• As the senior customer contact, you'll maintain transparency on critical path and supply chain risk as well as scope creep
• You will apply advanced problem-solving methodologies to identify root causes and collaborate with stakeholders to implement effective solutions
• Promoting behaviours and decision-making aligned with the company's vision and values you'll also champion a culture of learning and continuous professional development
• You'll provide clear leadership, communication, and direction to multidisciplinary teams internally and externally driving business transformation, managing change, and supporting business continuity and resilience planning

What are we looking for?

• Experience managing high-value (£10m+) projects in Ship Building / Senior Vessel Engineering / Heavy Fabrication / Heavy Modular Construction from inception to completion where variable critical path intensities occur, creating intermittent spikes of intense, time sensitive activity
• Strong commercial, operational, and financial awareness with the ability to see the wider picture
  Understanding of the impact of decisions including use of Earned Value Management / Budgeted cost of work performed to manage early warning signs, forecasting, decision making
  Experience of MoD single sourcing contracting and requirements
• An understating of the complexities of operating within a supply chain to meet MoD standards eg DEF STANs & security clearance
• Qualification in Project Management, APM, PRINCE2 or equivalent with Cost Management Accounting and Estimating capability
• The ability to lead, influence and inspire cross-functional teams with conflicting priorities understanding risk management and business continuity
• An exceptional communicator with fine-tuned interpersonal skills, with a proven track record of tackling performance and operational challenges effectively
• High personal integrity, tenacity, resilience, and a proactive, solutions-driven mindset
• Commitment to driving transformation, quality, and excellence across all areas

Why join us?

Opportunity to work on high-profile, impactful projects as part of a national multi facility business

Exposure to high-value, complex marine projects

Supportive and dynamic work environment at the centre of a marine technology hub on Merseyside, a world class maritime cluster

Due to the nature of what we do for some of the customers that we work with, some roles working for Cammell Laird are subject to security control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform with us.

You must also undergo a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check before your employment starts, which will include a basic DBS check.