Lead Project Manager - Rotating Machinery + CABS Projects
Role Overview
Lead Project Manager role delivering Rotating Machinery and CABS projects from early definition and FEED through design, delivery, commissioning, handover, and close-out.
The portfolio includes Siemens, GE, and Solar rotating machinery, Siemens electric VSD, and Everllence units.
Current and emerging work includes a new MOPICO unit, gas generator and power turbine overhauls, CABS projects, and major machinery upgrades.
Salary stated as £65,000 to £81,000 with up to 15% bonus.
Location is described as hybrid near Warrington, Bristol, or Warwick.
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Role overview
Lead Project Manager role delivering Rotating Machinery and CABS projects from early definition and FEED through design, delivery, commissioning, handover, and close-out.
The portfolio includes Siemens, GE, and Solar rotating machinery, Siemens electric VSD, and Everllence units.
Current and emerging work includes a new MOPICO unit, gas generator and power turbine overhauls, CABS projects, and major machinery upgrades.
Salary stated as £65,000 to £81,000 with up to 15% bonus.
Location is described as hybrid near Warrington, Bristol, or Warwick.
What you will do
- Lead projects through optioneering, FEED, construction, commissioning, handover, and closure.
- Deliver against scope, programme, cost, quality, safety, environmental, functional, and regulatory requirements.
- Develop strategies for compressor, turbine, electric-drive, and CABS investments.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and interfaces across engineering, operations, asset management, construction, procurement, commercial, and suppliers.
- Manage governance, risks, assumptions, dependencies, decisions, and changes.
- Manage design partners, OEMs, contractors, and specialist suppliers.
- Lead project cost controls, forecasts, schedules, reporting, and change control.
- Reduce construction and commissioning risks and ensure readiness and handover.
- Provide reporting and forecasts to senior stakeholders and represent the Senior Rotating Machinery Manager when required.
- Contribute to improvement, innovation, and standardization across the project portfolio.
What you will bring
- Significant complex capital-project leadership experience in rotating machinery, mechanical engineering, compressor systems, gas turbines, power generation, electric-drive machinery, fire and gas systems, CABS ventilation, or comparable high-hazard infrastructure.
- Record of taking projects from early development and FEED through design, delivery, commissioning, and handover.
- Experience leading direct and matrix teams, OEMs, principal contractors, designers, and specialist suppliers.
- Project management capability across scope, programme, cost, risk, quality, change, contracts, and stakeholders.
- Experience managing high-value costs, forecasts, and reporting.
- Understanding of construction safety, environmental obligations, design management, and assurance in regulated or safety-critical settings.
- Commercial awareness and experience with fixed-price, target-cost, or other major project contracts.
- Proactive and collaborative approach, with problem-solving and motivational skills.
Work arrangement
- Hybrid role near Warrington, Bristol, or Warwick.
Compensation
- Salary stated as £65,000 to £81,000, with up to 15% bonus.
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National Gas operates Britain's gas transmission network and supports energy security while helping transform the network for a clean energy future.
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