Job Title: Engineering Project Manager
Department: Tata Colors
Location: Shotton (CH5, about 5 miles from Chester city centre)
Salary: £55,000 - £60,000 + Benefits
We believe that our strength is not just in our steel but the diversity of our workforce. Our people make the difference.
Are you someone who enjoys leading major engineering projects, bringing people together, and seeing ideas turn into fully delivered, working solutions?
If you’re motivated by improving processes, delivering impactful site developments, and guiding talented engineers, this could be the ideal next step in your career.
We’re looking for an Engineering Project Manager to support the Colors Shotton business by leading key development projects from concept through to commissioning and handover. You’ll also guide a small team of Project Engineers and work closely with stakeholders across the site.
What you will do
You’ll play a key role in shaping the future of our site by managing projects that enhance equipment, improve manufacturing performance, and bring new capabilities to life. From the very start of each project, you’ll build and manage stakeholder groups, define the project charter and follow a structured stage‑gate process to keep everything aligned.
Your work will involve developing detailed project plans, engineering specifications and governance structures, as well as overseeing design, procurement, installation and commissioning activities. You’ll be responsible for ensuring all project work meets relevant engineering standards, safety requirements and regulatory expectations, and you’ll coordinate risk assessments, Management of Change documentation, CDM considerations and HAZOP studies.
Alongside this, you’ll lead and support a team that includes Project Engineers, Design Engineers and contractors, ensuring safe and effective delivery. You’ll work closely with Manufacturing Teams and plant engineers to provide technical guidance, keep up to date with new engineering technologies, manage project costs and budgets, and liaise with suppliers, procurement, finance, safety teams and wider Tata engineering functions.
What you will need
You’ll bring a strong grounding in engineering, from either a Mechanical or Electrical background, combined with experience leading engineering projects and an Engineering degree. You should be comfortable managing all stages of a project lifecycle, working with multidisciplinary teams, and keeping multiple moving parts aligned and on track.
To succeed, you’ll need confident communication and stakeholder‑management skills, along with a good understanding of safety legislation, risk assessment techniques, and the principles behind safe project delivery. Experience with budgeting and cost control is important, as is the ability to problem‑solve, analyse information and make well‑reasoned decisions.
Professional registration such as Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status is beneficial, and project management qualifications like PRINCE2 are useful but not essential. What matters most is your ability to lead, influence, collaborate and guide projects to a successful outcome.
If you’re excited by the idea of delivering major engineering projects, developing others and shaping future site improvements, we’d love to hear from you.
For a full job description or if you’d like an informal discussion, please contact: [email protected]
What we can offer you
Tata Steel UK offers their employees significant benefits packages. For this role, you will benefit from:
- A market competitive salary
- 35 days holidays per annum
- Annual Pay Review
- Bonus Scheme – subject to business performance
- Ongoing Tata Steel training, which has built a reputation as one of the best within the industry
- Private Healthcare Scheme (Individual cover)
- One of the UK’s leading defined contribution pension schemes (10% employer contribution / 6% employee contribution)
We also have an extensive list of lifestyle benefits including free onsite parking at all of our sites, an employee assistance programme as well as Employee discount scheme for companies including Vodafone, Jaguar Land Rover and also various local services.
Why us?
Tata Steel is one of the world’s top 10 steel producers. The combined group has an annual aggregate crude steel capacity of more than 33 million tonnes with approximately 80,000 employees across four continents. We’re part of the Tata Group, one of the largest, most diverse conglomerates in the world with businesses in the UK including Tata Steel, Jaguar Land Rover and Tetley Tea.
Sustainability is at the very heart of what we do and we are dedicated to managing our operations responsibly and to continuously improving our performance. Innovating for tomorrow, making a positive impact today.
Tata Steel in the UK is committed to our ambition of reducing energy consumption and to becoming a carbon neutral steelmaker by 2045, to find out more about our journey click here Shotton steelworks’ commitment to sustainability - YouTube
