Project Manager (Rail)

Location: Comms Design Ltd, Harrogate, United Kingdom

Salary: To be discussed; 33 days holiday including bank holidays, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits including a cycle to work scheme.

Company

Unipart is a supply chain performance improvement partner that designs, makes, moves, and improves components for customer supply chains, with a focus on operational efficiency, resilience, and sustainability.

What you will do

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of railway projects from concept through successful client handover.
• Manage project delivery against agreed time, cost, quality, and budget constraints.
• Coordinate internal teams, external contractors, supply chain partners, and site deliveries.
• Define project structures, controls, delivery methodologies, governance, reporting, and phase transitions.
• Manage stakeholders, risks, issues, interdependencies, change control, assurance reviews, and gateway reviews.
• Provide guidance and coaching to project teams, support decision-making, and report progress to sponsors.

Requirements

• Formal project management qualification, ideally APM PMQ or PRINCE2 Practitioner.
• Experience managing complex engineering projects across the full project lifecycle, ideally in the rail industry.
• Proven results-driven and accountable approach to business needs, with technical curiosity and commercial awareness.
• Excellent customer and communication skills with good commercial understanding.
• Strong planning, prioritisation, problem-solving, and delivery skills.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders collaboratively and handle multiple projects and priorities autonomously.
• Quality- and customer-focused, confident, self-motivated, adaptable, and committed to personal development.

Nice to have

• Engineering background, particularly in the rail industry.
• Knowledge and experience working with Network Rail and Tier 1 delivery teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position with 40 hours per week.
• 33 days of holiday including bank holidays.
• Pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits including a cycle to work scheme.
• Inclusive recruitment based on merit, with reasonable adjustments and accessibility support available throughout the application and interview process.