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You will provide clear financial and performance reporting, proactively manage risk and change, and ensure strong governance across the project portfolio.\nWorking closely with teams in Ireland and the United States, you will support consistent project delivery across the organisation, strengthen customer relationships, and develop the capability and performance of the Project Management team.\nRequirements\nKey Responsibilities\nLead the end-to-end delivery of complex, high-value customer projects, ensuring commitments are achieved across scope, schedule, cost, quality, safety, and customer expectations.\nProvide oversight across multiple concurrent projects, monitoring dependencies, priorities, risks, resources, and overall delivery performance.\nManage, coach, and develop a team of Project Managers, setting clear expectations and supporting consistent, high-quality project execution.\nAct as a senior point of contact for customers, building trusted relationships and leading project 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capacity, commercial requirements, and delivery plans.\nEnsure project risks, issues, actions, and decisions are actively managed, with robust contingency planning and timely escalation where required.\nOversee subcontractor, supplier, and external delivery performance where relevant, ensuring quality, cost, schedule, and compliance requirements are met.\nLead executive and customer project performance reviews, providing accurate reporting, clear insights, and practical recommendations.\nDrive consistent project management standards, reporting discipline, lessons learned, and continuous improvement across the team.\nEnsure projects comply with applicable technical, quality, safety, regulatory, contractual, and customer requirements.\nSkills, Experience & Qualifications\n10+ years of experience in project management within industrial, engineering, manufacturing, construction, infrastructure, or engineered product environments.\nProven experience leading complex, high-value customer 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