Project Manager in Wakefield - Elevation Recruitment Group

Elevations Design & Projects team are seeking a talented Project Manager to join a Yorkshire based, rapidly scaling engineering and manufacturing organisation. This role is responsible for establishing project governance, driving operational alignment across all departments, and ensuring successful delivery of complex technical, engineering, quality, and customer programmes.

You will oversee project planning, resource coordination, timelines, stakeholder engagement, and interdepartmental communications, owning cross-business flow, structured delivery, and strong customer liaison. This is a diverse, strategic, and hands-on role suited to a leader capable of developing a PMO from early stage to high performance within a dynamic, growing SME.

• Develop, implement, and maintain project management frameworks, governance standards, and best practices across engineering and manufacturing.

• Build structured processes around Gantt charts, flow lines, milestone tracking, and interdepartmental workflow.

• Own project intake, prioritisation, gating structure, documentation, and quality compliance.

• Establish reporting rhythms, project review cycles, and executive dashboards.

• Drive alignment between Production Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, ME, Production Support, Sales/Commercial, Supply Chain, and Shopfloor.

• Ensure all departments are connected with clear dependencies, responsibilities, and timeline visibility.

• Lead collaborative planning to ensure project readiness, manufacturability (DFM), and seamless handover to production.

• Manage the end-to-end project portfolio including engineering changes, NPIs, customer-driven projects, and continuous improvement programmes.

• Oversee delivery of key programmes for major customers, including DFM, technical reviews, and customer approval cycles.

• Ensure projects remain on time, on budget and aligned with business strategic priorities.

• Act as a key liaison with customers, attending meetings, presenting progress reports, and managing expectations.

• Support projects where manufacturing activity is performed on behalf of major customers 

• Provide professional representation in customer audits, reviews, and programme updates.

• Show potential to develop into a role providing leadership, coaching, and structured development for project coordinators, engineers, or future PMO hires as the PMO grows.

• Promote a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and high performance across a growing team

• Identify inefficiencies in engineering, NPI or manufacturing workflows and drive systemic improvements.

• Introduce or optimise tools such as MS Project, Smartsheet, Jira, MRP/ERP project modules.

• Execute lessons-learned frameworks and embed improvements into SOPs and project governance.

• Degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations Management or related technical discipline.

• 7+ years project/programme management experience with 3+ years in a PMO or leadership capacity (preferred)

• Proven success man