IS Project Manager (12 month FTC) at Spirax Group · Cheltenham

IS Project Manager (12 month FTC)

Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (hybrid working)

The role:

We are seeking an experienced and driven Project Manager to join our team in Cheltenham. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the delivery of complex projects within a dynamic and fast-paced environment. You will be responsible for planning, executing and closing projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope and budget, while maintaining high-quality standards.

Working collaboratively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, you will play a key role in driving business outcomes, managing risks and ensuring continuous improvement across project delivery.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end project delivery, from initiation through to completion
• Develop and manage project plans, timelines, budgets and resources
• Engage with key stakeholders to define requirements and ensure alignment
• Identify, assess and mitigate project risks and issues
• Track project performance and provide regular status updates to senior stakeholders
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery
• Ensure governance, compliance and documentation standards are met
• Drive continuous improvement in project management processes and practices

Your experience:

• Proven experience as a Project Manager delivering complex projects
• Experience working in a structured project environment (e.g. Agile, PRINCE2, or similar)
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience working with diverse stakeholder groups, including senior leadership
• Strong understanding of project lifecycle, governance and reporting
• Experience within a technical, transformation or change environment is advantageous

Your skills:

• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities
• Problem-solving mindset with attention to detail
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
• Proactive, adaptable and results-driven approach
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills
• Proficiency in project management tools (e.g. MS Project, Jira, or similar)

The Steam Thermal Solutions business is one of three businesses within Spirax Group. Spirax Sarco and Gestra, are our two brands that form Steam Thermal Solutions and are global leaders in the supply of engineered solutions for the design, provision and maintenance of efficient industrial and commercial steam systems. Steam Thermal Solutions has global coverage across 67 operating units (called OpCos), organised into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, Gestra.

Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.

Benefits

You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts’ portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below.

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at https://www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments.

We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.