Project Manager - US

We're looking for a proactive and hands-on professional to oversee large-scale projects, ensuring alignment with the CDE Project Management framework and best practices, while maintaining exceptional communication with our customers.

The role involves serving as the primary customer contact for assigned regional projects, ensuring contractual compliance, and managing project budgets, costs, and variations. Effective communication with internal and external stakeholders is vital, along with reporting project-related issues and contingencies to the Head of Operations regularly.

This is an opportunity for individuals with a passion for project management to excel, contribute to excellence, safety, and customer satisfaction.

If you're ready to elevate your project management career and be part of an exceptional team, apply now. Join us in delivering outstanding results and making a meaningful impact!

About The Role

Project Management

• Always ensure full compliance to CDE’s and our customers’ health & safety requirements within the region ensuring you and those you work alongside get ‘Home Safe Every Day’.
• Ensure compliance with CDE continuous improvement culture 'Do It Right'.
• To operate in line with the CDE Project Management framework ensuring that allocated projects are delivered within the agreed scope, plan, budget, and time milestones.
• To maintain current working knowledge of project management best practice.
• To expedite project tasks against planned timescales within each function ensuring adequate resource is assigned to meet target delivery milestones.
• Close out final project ‘snags’ or outstanding works in a prompt and efficient manner.
• Look to continually improve process and product quality to better meet and set customer and market expectations.

Customer Relations

• To assume single and trusted point of Customer contact for all assigned regional projects.
• To ensure awareness and compliance with all contractual arrangements for each assigned project, meeting with the Business Development Manager and Customer as required to clarify any points.

Timeline & Budget Management

• Ensure all target project deliverables are communicated and reinforced to all relevant business functions.
• Ensure extensions of time are submitted where required and feasible.
• Manage project costs against planned budgetary milestones taking corrective action when necessary and ensuring the finance team are aware of any changes in forecast margins.
• Upsell and manage variation opportunities and ensure all non-planned costs are covered by a variation order where possible.
• Take full ownership of managing staged payment release within each project.

Communications & Reporting

• Communicate consistently to ensure both internal and external stakeholders are informed of project progress and issues and ensure all parties are aware of their requirements.
• To identify, track, monitor and communicate project-related issues, scope changes, variances and contingencies that may arise during the implementation of a project and report this regularly to the Head of Operations.

Required Criteria

• A degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 3 – 5 years’ experience in a project management role
• Experience of managing project costs against planned budgetary milestones
• Proficient in overseeing projects according to established timelines and consistently achieving deadlines.
• Experience in a similar industry

Desired Criteria

• Professional qualification in project management such as PMP or Prince2
• Proven experience in driving large, complex engineering or industry-relevant projects
• Experience of managing projects in accordance with MSHA law.

Skills Needed

Customer Relationship Management, Managing Quality

About The Company

WE ARE CDE. ENGINEERED FOR YOU

We empower our customers to transform waste into valuable resources through innovative co-creation, laying the foundations for the circular economy.

We help our customers maximise their natural resources in the most sustainable way possible – with greater efficiency and less waste than ever before. Our unparalleled speed and scale are down to our proximity to our customers and our deep understanding of their challenges. Our track record of proven solutions consistently meets our customers’ needs precisely, operating in challenging environments from the Arctic to the Equator.

Wet processing is our sole focus –our experience and expertise is unmatched in this field.

Every day, in everything we do, we strive to do it right. We want to be the best at what we do and deliver the maximum benefit for our customers. We pull together, as a team, in pursuit of this common cause. Our “Customer for Life” mentality fortifies each of our projects, with CDE engineers delivering continuous, limitless support.

Company Culture

We recognise that it is our people that have established CDE as market leader in developing solutions for the wet processing industry both within natural materials processing and waste recycling sectors.

OUR PURPOSE IS TO CREATE OUR BEST WORLD, A TON AT A TIME.

To do that, we must continue to build our global team by adding the most ambitious, driven and talented people. We will challenge you, elevate you and broaden your horizons. We will help you to be the best you can be both personally and professionally.

We are renowned for our energy and can do attitude…. and at times seemingly delivering the impossible. We also know that all the will in the world won’t take us anywhere unless we work together. And we like to have fun together - life’s too short and we spend most of it at work. If we lose the power to laugh, we lose the power to think.

We will continue to add the most dynamic, ambitious and talented individuals to the CDE team.

Company Benefits

Health insurance, Vacation, Paid time off, Retirement plan and/or pension, Employee development programs, A diversity program, Opportunity to travel, Free parking, Cycle to work, Competitive salary, Long service recognition, Free parking or Discounted parking , Work With Charities, Social Opportunities, Employee Recognition Scheme

Salary

Not disclosed