IT Project Manager – BEV Project

Salary: £44,000 – 49,000 per year

Requirements

• Proven experience as an IT Project Manager or in a prominent project management role within a complex, multi-workstream programme.
• Extensive experience delivering complex IT infrastructure, networking and communications projects within industrial, manufacturing or factory systems environments.
• Strong project management capability, including the creation and management of large-scale project plans.
• Strong leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and coordinate teams in a matrix environment.
• Experience managing risks, issues, dependencies, actions and mitigation strategies across complex delivery programmes.
• Deep knowledge of project methodologies, ideally Waterfall.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and quality assurance best practices.
• Experience managing diverse teams and third-party suppliers in high-pressure environments.
• Prince2 certification or equivalent preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed project and epic plans, managing the critical path and ensuring key deliverables are documented, prioritised and understood.
• Coordinate workstream activity across stakeholders, internal teams, third-party suppliers and dependent milestones to support delivery to cost, time and quality.
• Manage project risks, issues, dependencies and actions, ensuring updates are maintained weekly and escalations are made where required.
• Support governance forums by ensuring inputs, outputs, pre‑reads, minutes and highlight reports are completed in line with programme standards.
• Implement programme change control processes across the workstream, including impact assessments, change requests, planning and delivery.
• Communicate project progress through regular updates and reports, ensuring stakeholder expectations remain aligned with project goals.
• Facilitate lessons learned activity and support continuous improvement across delivery, quality and reporting standards.

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We are supporting a high‑profile, fast‑paced BEV programme focused on delivering key IT workstream activity across infrastructure, networking, communications and factory systems environments. This contract role is based in Crewe with two days per week on site and is outside IR35 until 18th December 2026. We offer the opportunity to work in a complex, high‑pressure programme environment with significant stakeholder interaction and delivery ownership.

last updated 26 week of 2026

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