Project Manager required for Start Up Manufacturing Facility in the North West.

A European aggregate recycling company require a Project Manager to join their team and lead their successful start up in the North West. As the Project Manager you will be required to research the market with the aim to start recycling activities towards the end of the year (soil and debris cleaning). You will need to liaise with local authorities with regards to planning permission/grants etc, recruit contractors, source suppliers and customers, utilise your knowledge of licensing procedures and implications involved in a new start up facility in the UK. The role will also required you to source, purchase, install and commission all the capital plant required for the manufacturing process along side the project team that you will recruit. This exciting role for a proven project manager will initially be for a six month period with the opportunity to develop the role into that of an Operational Manager.

The successful applicant will have extensive experience in -

• Sourcing a Brownfield site, identifying contractors and sourcing equipment, particularly within the recycling industry, ideally minerals or the stone, tarmac, concrete or granulates.
• You will possess significant project management experience with UK start up businesses and have prior knowledge of licensing procedures, working with planning, authorities and/or local council.
• The Project Manager will have to have the ability to work in a high pressured, fast paced environment and be used to working to tight deadlines; as well as proven experience in the strategic planning and risk management associated with such a project.
• This role will require you to be customer facing particularly in the outset of the project to establish UK clients.

My client is a successful European company who process mineral waste (sand, gravel, glass) and convert into secondary concrete aggregates. This successful business, with an innovative and growing product range is offering the opportunity for a driven project manager to join their team. Due to their significant growth they are now expanding to the UK and plan to set up a manufacturing facility in the North West of England with the right Project Manager at the helm.