Project Delivery Manager
Join Swegon as a Project Delivery Manager responsible for managing projects from initiation through to completion and see how your contribution makes a difference.
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Swegon are looking for a Project Delivery Manager to be responsible for the successful delivery of projects that support the organisation's business objectives. The role manages projects from initiation through to completion, ensuring they are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
This role will be hybrid based and will involve working from home, as well as working from one of our sites in Ashby or Kent. This will also include travel to various customer sites, as required by the business.
The Project Delivery Manager works closely with customers, stakeholders, suppliers, and internal teams and oversees project planning, delivery, and coordination across multiple workstreams. The role supports programme-level oversight by monitoring progress across a portfolio of projects, identifying risks and dependencies, and ensuring resources are aligned to meet business and customer requirements.
The Project Delivery Manager provides leadership and direction to project teams, ensuring effective communication, collaboration, and accountability throughout the project lifecycle. The role also has line management responsibility for Project Managers, providing coaching, performance management, development support, and resource planning to help build a capable and engaged project delivery team.
The position plays a key role in maintaining consistent project management standards, promoting best practice, and supporting continuous improvement within the project delivery function.
Main duties and responsibilities: (This is not an exhaustive list and is subject to change depending on the business needs)
Manage the delivery of projects from initiation through to completion.
Ensure projects are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and to agreed quality standards.
Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, budgets, and progress reporting.
Coordinate multiple projects and workstreams to support wider programme objectives.
Monitor programme and project milestones, dependencies, risks, and resource requirements.
Work with internal teams, suppliers, subcontractors, and customers to ensure successful project delivery.
Manage project risks, issues, and change requests, implementing mitigation actions where required.
Provide regular project and programme updates to management and key stakeholders.
Manage project budgets, forecasts, and commercial performance.
Provide line management, coaching, mentoring, and development support to project delivery personnel.
Support resource planning and workload balancing across projects.
Ensure compliance with company procedures, health and safety requirements, and project governance processes.
Build and maintain strong relationships with customers and stakeholders.
Regularly conduct meetings with sales teams to review sales to projects handover, project delivery ensuring process improvements are implemented based on feedback.
Identify opportunities to improve project delivery processes and drive continuous improvement.
Ensure all projects are delivered in accordance with health, safety, quality, and regulatory requirements
Essential Qualifications:
Qualification in Project Management, Engineering or a related discipline
Good level of computer literacy and proficient with Microsoft Office and Project Management Software/Systems
Full and valid UK driving licence
Essential Experience:
Proven experience in project management
Experience managing multiple concurrent projects within a project portfolio
Use of Project Management & Planning tools
Experience of coordinating contractors/ subcontractors
Desirable Experience:
Experience of successfully managing a team
Experience managing remote teams
Experience managing project budgets, risks and resources
Experience in continuous improvement and implementing project management best practices.
Understanding of developing project management methodologies, standards, and processes
Equal Opportunities Statement
We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation, in line with the Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates and are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is fair, transparent, and accessible to all. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate your needs.
We offer
At Swegon, we work to create the world's best indoor climate that makes people thrive and feel good inside. We have ambitious goals in our sustainability efforts, in offering the most energy-efficient products, promoting gender equality, and becoming carbon neutral, and we have clear transparency in our work. We offer exciting challenges in a global environment with competent colleagues and a culture characterized by our values; "Customer Empathy, Trust, and Commitment," which permeate everything we do and are the basis for the decisions we make and how we interact with each other. At Swegon, we have an open and flexible organizational culture with short decision-making processes, plenty of development opportunities, and we care about you being able to balance your work with your personal life. We place great emphasis on personal qualities, welcome applicants with different backgrounds, and strive for diversity and gender equality.
(Please note that we are not looking to use any agencies to fill this vacancy)
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- Department
- Service
- Locations
- London, Ashby, Leicestershire, UK
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Remote Status
- Hybrid
About Swegon UK & I
Swegon Group AB, owned by Investment AB Latour, listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, is a market leading supplier in the field of indoor environment, offering solutions for ventilation, heating, cooling and climate optimisation, as well as connected services and expert technical support. Swegon has subsidiaries in and distributors all over the world and 21 production plants in Europe, North America and India. The company employs more than 3 300 people and in 2023 had a turnover of 8.8 billion SEK.