468 Project Management jobs in Greater Manchester

Job Title: Finance Manager – Projects

Location: Preston, Lancashire. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £55,000

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the delivery of finance support across a portfolio of Enterprise IT (EIT) projects in line with the Integrated Business Plan (IBP)

• Prepare and review project business cases to support financial planning and approval processes

• Manage finance reporting cycles, including CSR (Contract Status Reports), SSR (Summary Status Reports), MMR (Monthly Management Reporting), and QBR (Quarterly Business Review)

• Provide financial input to project managers and portfolio leads to support decision-making

• Oversee internal recharging processes, ensuring agreements, invoicing, and cash collection are completed

• Maintain financial control and ensure compliance with finance policies and the Financial Controls Framework

• Identify and implement process improvements in reporting, systems, and financial operations

• Line manage a Project Accountant, ensuring delivery of required outputs and supporting development

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA)

• Advanced Excel skills for financial analysis and reporting

• Experience providing finance support for projects or portfolios

Desirable:

• Familiarity with SAP S/4HANA and Coupa

• Previous experience leading or managing a team

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The FP&A Team:

You will be part of the Shared Services FP&A team within Project Finance Capability, supporting a portfolio of enterprise IT projects that are pivotal to the organisation’s transformation. This role offers a varied and dynamic workload, involving financial planning, reporting, business case analysis, and stakeholder engagement across multiple projects. You will collaborate closely with project managers, portfolio leads, and wider finance teams, gaining broad exposure across the organisation. There is a clear focus on continuous improvement, enabling you to influence processes and contribute to modernising financial operations. With responsibility for leading a direct report and involvement in senior reporting cycles, this position provides valuable opportunities for professional growth and development within a collaborative and supportive team environment.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 31st July 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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Job Title: Finance Manager – Projects

Location: Preston, Lancashire. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £55,000

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the delivery of finance support across a portfolio of Enterprise IT (EIT) projects in line with the Integrated Business Plan (IBP)

• Prepare and review project business cases to support financial planning and approval processes

• Manage finance reporting cycles, including CSR (Contract Status Reports), SSR (Summary Status Reports), MMR (Monthly Management Reporting), and QBR (Quarterly Business Review)

• Provide financial input to project managers and portfolio leads to support decision-making

• Oversee internal recharging processes, ensuring agreements, invoicing, and cash collection are completed

• Maintain financial control and ensure compliance with finance policies and the Financial Controls Framework

• Identify and implement process improvements in reporting, systems, and financial operations

• Line manage a Project Accountant, ensuring delivery of required outputs and supporting development

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA)

• Advanced Excel skills for financial analysis and reporting

• Experience providing finance support for projects or portfolios

Desirable:

• Familiarity with SAP S/4HANA and Coupa

• Previous experience leading or managing a team

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The FP&A Team:

You will be part of the Shared Services FP&A team within Project Finance Capability, supporting a portfolio of enterprise IT projects that are pivotal to the organisation’s transformation. This role offers a varied and dynamic workload, involving financial planning, reporting, business case analysis, and stakeholder engagement across multiple projects. You will collaborate closely with project managers, portfolio leads, and wider finance teams, gaining broad exposure across the organisation. There is a clear focus on continuous improvement, enabling you to influence processes and contribute to modernising financial operations. With responsibility for leading a direct report and involvement in senior reporting cycles, this position provides valuable opportunities for professional growth and development within a collaborative and supportive team environment.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 31st July 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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#LI-Hybrid

• Ensuring that Engineering resource requirements are identified and effectively utilised to allow execution of projects in accordance with the project requirements and targeting for maximum productivity and efficiency.
• Ensuring all Engineers fully understand the detailed scope, basis of design, budget and programme requirements of the project.
• Co-ordination of Engineering and Design interfaces between Costain and other project partners / supply chain partners.
• Management of contractual communications, supporting progress meetings, risk reduction meetings, cost reports, coordinating multi-disciplinary design teams and running / closing out contract actions
• Regularly reporting to senior operational management on the performance of the engineering delivery for the project
• Providing a commercial focus with a high level of challenge on project scope and protecting against uncontrolled scope creep
• Ensuring effective deployment and use of company engineering delivery processes on projects including engineering design strategy; master deliverable register, project schedule, work/cost breakdown structure; process safety management and engineering governance process.
• Ensuring that key project and programme risks are identified early, and mitigated where possible, with issues and blockers escalated immediately
• Ensuring all services comply fully with Client & Costain governance processes, standards and obtaining necessary approvals
• Developing projective relationships by communicating with colleagues and subordinates, developing trust and support and building teams.
• Lead by example, displaying the Company's values and behaviours, and commitment to the highest standards of safe and ethical behaviour, to ensure safe and reliable operations and client satisfaction.
• Ensure that personal and corporate compliance with Health and Safety policy including company policy, relevant legislation, company and client's requirements for Health, Safety and Environmental matters and to work in such a manner not to cause personal harm or injury to fellow workers, client and sub-contractors employees or the environment.
• Work collaboratively with business development, work winning and marketing functions to develop and tender new opportunities. Developing and reviewing the engineering strategy; basis of estimate; engineering manhour estimate; schedule; risk register; engineering gates and technical proposal.
• Support the Discipline Manager in developing and mentoring other members of the project engineering department.
• Support the Discipline Manager in maintaining/improving project engineering corporate processes, including workflows, methods, competency, software systems and technical standards and ensuring project lessons learnt are effectively captured and embedded.

• Honours Degree or equivalent qualification in an engineering related subject.
• Significant experience in coordinating multi-discipline teams the various stages of the project life cycle on major contracts in the Energy
• Thorough knowledge of the major project delivery process from work winning to project handover.
• Knowledge and understanding of UK technical and regulatory standards and global best practice.
• Strong process safety, quality and environmental leadership focus.
• Significant knowledge and understanding of Project Controls, including Schedule, Cost, Risk and Change Management.
• Collaborative, innovative and agile.
• Experienced customer facing capability with an ability to develop and influence relationships
• Strong interpersonal skills and an effective communicator (written & verbal)
• Able to work regularly from the Costain Manchester office
• Mobility to travel to costain/client offices, project sites and suppliers.

• Manage MEICA procurement, installation and commissioning activities of a portfolio of water and/or wastewater projects
• Ensure that the highest standards of safety and environmental protection are consistently maintained
• Ensure projects are delivered to the applicable UU MEICA engineering standards and specifications
• Ensure that the MEICA scoping, design and delivery is supported from feasibility to project completion and coordinated with the wider project deliverables
• Ensure the final product is in accordance with project requirements, right first time
• Co-ordination of activities and teams as part of the wider project delivery; contributing to delivery strategy planning, programme development and ongoing collaborative works planning and management to assure safe and effective delivery
• Reporting of cost and programme for MEICA packages of works
• Liaison with the design team to ensure all MEICA interfaces are covered on the projects
• Management of MEICA design and subcontract partner contracts
• Establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with the Client's site based operational teams, project teams and wider internal stakeholders (e.g. Asset Creation and Service Delivery teams)
• Contribute to Enterprise and Client reporting and briefings in respect of MEICA works
• Ensure quality records and final documentation are completed in line with Client requirements and issued on time
• Review supply chain performance against Costain KPIs
• Implement and refresh initiatives to improve behaviours relating to SHEQ
• Ensure equipment is installed by suppliers, right first time through use of inspection request process

• Previous experience of managing multidisciplinary MEICA projects
• Experienced in working with existing water and wastewater treatment works and processes on mechanical and electrical plant and equipment, HV and LV electrical switchgear and control instrumentation and systems
• HNC/HND or degree in a relevant engineering discipline
• Chartered Engineer or working towards achieving chartered status with the appropriate engineering institution
• Proven competence in the management of MEICA procurement, installation and commissioning either by academic or apprenticeship routes
• SMSTS
• CSCS

• Select, lead, direct, and develop a high-performing team of project managers & project/area delivery team(s) within your portfolio of projects
• Supporting the development of pre-construction planning for new scope of works
• Establish excellent relationships with Costain and Client teams
• As an operational leader, promote a culture of efficiency and continuous improvement, both within your team and across the framework service
• Provide whole life oversight and accountability for the successful delivery of projects and services, through design, procurement, assembly, commissioning, and handover as required
• Actively champion wellbeing, safety and environment performance, compliance, and continuous improvement across the project portfolio and throughout your team
• Provide leadership to create a safety culture to ensure Zero LTI and RIDDOR Incidents
• Work closely with the commercial & supply chain team, ensuring engagement from tender through to delivery to achieve commercial performance requirements
• Champion the use of our performance and operational data and digital tools available to drive operational decisions and performance

• Experienced operational, delivery focused leader
• Significant amount of practical experience where you have successfully managed and delivered a framework of multiple projects of a complex or critical nature, on major UK infrastructure schemes (preferably in the water sector)
• Strong track record of delivery of project programmes
• Knowledge and understanding of construction contract law and forms of contract through experience and formal training
• Ability to build trusted relationships with key client stakeholders, within your team and across the Framework & Costain group
• Computer competence (MS Word, Excel, Document control system, Primavera software)
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• HNC/HND or degree in a relevant engineering discipline
• SMSTS qualification
• NEC PM accreditation (preferred)
• Association of Project Management APMP (preferred)

• Ensuring that Engineering resource requirements are identified and effectively utilised to allow execution of projects in accordance with the project requirements and targeting for maximum productivity and efficiency.
• Ensuring all Engineers fully understand the detailed scope, basis of design, budget and programme requirements of the project.
• Co-ordination of Engineering and Design interfaces between Costain and other project partners / supply chain partners.
• Management of contractual communications, supporting progress meetings, risk reduction meetings, cost reports, coordinating multi-disciplinary design teams and running / closing out contract actions
• Regularly reporting to senior operational management on the performance of the engineering delivery for the project
• Providing a commercial focus with a high level of challenge on project scope and protecting against uncontrolled scope creep
• Ensuring effective deployment and use of company engineering delivery processes on projects including engineering design strategy; master deliverable register, project schedule, work/cost breakdown structure; process safety management and engineering governance process.
• Ensuring that key project and programme risks are identified early, and mitigated where possible, with issues and blockers escalated immediately
• Ensuring all services comply fully with Client & Costain governance processes, standards and obtaining necessary approvals

• Honours Degree or equivalent qualification in an engineering related subject.
• Significant experience in coordinating multi-discipline teams the various stages of the project life cycle on major contracts in the Energy or similar process industry sectors.
• Thorough knowledge of the major project delivery process from work winning to project handover.
• Knowledge and understanding of UK technical and regulatory standards and global best practice.
• Strong process safety, quality and environmental leadership focus.
• Significant knowledge and understanding of Project Controls, including Schedule, Cost, Risk and Change Management.
• Collaborative, innovative and agile.
• Experienced customer facing capability with an ability to develop and influence relationships
• Strong interpersonal skills and an effective communicator (written & verbal)
• Able to work regularly from the Costain Manchester office
• Mobility to travel to costain/client offices, project sites and suppliers.

• Leadership, line management and development of site teams
• Provide whole life oversight and accountability for the successful completion of projects and services, through design, procurement, assembly, commissioning, and handover aligned to the Framework strategy and targets
• Effective collaborative behaviours to ensure alignment of all delivery partners (designers, supply chain) and stakeholders (UU site operations teams, Enterprise leadership team) and successful delivery
• Create a positive and proactive culture to strive toward zero LTI and RIDDOR incidents
• Oversight of delivery strategy development ensuring a robust commercial focus and efficient delivery
• Consistent and reliable reporting of project performance to achieve Enterprise, Framework and Company targets
• Present project performance effectively to Framework and Enterprise leadership teams and stakeholders
• Ensure key project and programme risks are identified early, and mitigated where possible
• Effective engagement with the wider Enterprise and Framework team to support project delivery

• Previous experience of managing multidisciplinary projects including civils and or MEICA delivery (in the water sector would be beneficial, but it is not essential)
• Strong track record of delivery of project programmes
• Experience of the practical management of projects delivered using NEC forms of contract
• Ability to build trusted relationships with key client stakeholders, within your team and across the Enterprise, Framework & Costain group
• Effective collaborative behaviours, a good communicator with strong interpersonal skills
• Relevant CSCS card
• HNC/HND or degree in a relevant engineering discipline
• SMSTS qualification

• Ensuring that Engineering resource requirements are identified and effectively utilised to allow execution of projects in accordance with the project requirements and targeting for maximum productivity and efficiency.
• Ensuring all Engineers fully understand the detailed scope, basis of design, budget and programme requirements of the project.
• Co-ordination of Engineering and Design interfaces between Costain and other project partners / supply chain partners.
• Management of contractual communications, supporting progress meetings, risk reduction meetings, cost reports, coordinating multi-disciplinary design teams and running / closing out contract actions
• Regularly reporting to senior operational management on the performance of the engineering delivery for the project
• Providing a commercial focus with a high level of challenge on project scope and protecting against uncontrolled scope creep
• Ensuring effective deployment and use of company engineering delivery processes on projects including engineering design strategy; master deliverable register, project schedule, work/cost breakdown structure; process safety management and engineering governance process.
• Ensuring that key project and programme risks are identified early, and mitigated where possible, with issues and blockers escalated immediately
• Ensuring all services comply fully with Client & Costain governance processes, standards and obtaining necessary approvals
• Developing projective relationships by communicating with colleagues and subordinates, developing trust and support and building teams.
• Lead by example, displaying the Company's values and behaviours, and commitment to the highest standards of safe and ethical behaviour, to ensure safe and reliable operations and client satisfaction.
• Ensure that personal and corporate compliance with Health and Safety policy including company policy, relevant legislation, company and client's requirements for Health, Safety and Environmental matters and to work in such a manner not to cause personal harm or injury to fellow workers, client and sub-contractors employees or the environment.
• Work collaboratively with business development, work winning and marketing functions to develop and tender new opportunities. Developing and reviewing the engineering strategy; basis of estimate; engineering manhour estimate; schedule; risk register; engineering gates and technical proposal.
• Support the Discipline Manager in developing and mentoring other members of the project engineering department.
• Support the Discipline Manager in maintaining/improving project engineering corporate processes, including workflows, methods, competency, software systems and technical standards and ensuring project lessons learnt are effectively captured and embedded.

• Significant experience in coordinating multi-discipline teams through the various stages of the project life cycle on major contracts
• Civils, Structures and Infrastructure knowledge - Nuclear, Chemical or similar process industry sectors advantageous
• Thorough knowledge of the major project delivery process from work winning to project handover.
• Knowledge and understanding of UK technical and regulatory standards and global best practice.
• Strong process safety, quality and environmental leadership focus.
• Significant knowledge and understanding of Project Controls, including Schedule, Cost, Risk and Change Management.
• Collaborative, innovative and agile.
• Experienced customer facing capability with an ability to develop and influence relationships
• Strong interpersonal skills and an effective communicator (written & verbal)
• Must be able to work from the Costain Manchester Office a minimum 3 days a week and potentially 5 days depending on project security aspects
• Mobility to travel to Costain/client offices, project sites and suppliers.
• Honours Degree or equivalent qualification in an engineering related subject.
• Able to achieve SC clearance

• Experience in the requirements for CE marking of plant and equipment
• Knowledge and experience in the Energy Transition field e.g. Green/Blue Hydrogen, CCUS and emissions reduction.
• Strong engineering and business system/software skills
• Chartered Engineer and Membership of a professional engineering institution
• Association for Project Management qualification/accreditation

PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR

£30,000 - £5,000

Architectural / Bespoke Manufacturing Industry

Description

This exciting Project Co-Ordinator role in Altrincham offers the chance to play a crucial part in delivering high-quality lighting and architectural projects from start to finish. The successful candidate will ensure smooth collaboration across all stakeholders and handle all aspects of project coordination with precision and care. This position suits someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys contributing to the success of creative projects.

Responsibilities

• Be at the heart of project delivery, ensuring full completion with seamless coordination

• Collaborate with internal teams to keep projects on track and within scope.
• Liaise confidently with external stakeholders to manage expectations and progress.
• Monitor project milestones and timelines to ensure deadlines are met.
• Prepare and maintain project documentation and reports for all stakeholders.
• Support problem-solving initiatives to overcome project challenges effectively.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in project coordination or a related field
• Excellent communication and organisational skills to manage multiple priorities efficiently.
• Ability to work collaboratively across diverse teams and external partners.
• Strong attention to detail and proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Familiarity with project management tools and software is an advantage.

If you are interested in this position please click 'apply'.

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