Project Delivery Director

px Group

Project Delivery Director leading engineering project delivery at px Engineering. Responsible for ensuring effective execution of projects and management of engineering teams in a hybrid work environment.

Posted 6/17/2026full-timeStockton on Tees • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

- Responsibility of engineering “project” delivery relating to all awarded work, ensuring day to day business as usual delivery activities are managed, controlled and delivered to plan
- Provide Line Management to: Projects/ engineering delivery teams across pxE
- Accountable for reporting weekly / monthly project updates and monthly performance to the pxE Managing Director & Leadership Team (LT), as well as monthly performance metrics for projects including Safety, Cost, Progress, Scope, Quality, Opportunity, and Risk
- Accountable for the management, governance, and reporting of monthly deliverable performance, agreed metrics, OTD, resource recoveries, load forecasting, quality, adherence to schedule and cost.
- Identify & support with potential issues, provide analysis, and solutions during LT review & meetings
- Ensures compliance and governance with business policy and procedures
- Responsible for monitoring/ control of planned budgets and working with the Financial
- Controller to manage risk as well as providing guidance to the delivery teams and outputs to the other members of the leadership team.
- Responsible for projects execution - handover through to signoff & completion (cost, schedule, scope, quality, team) with lessons learned KPI’s and metrics reported (PvA)
- Drive continuous improvement strategies by proactively develop pxE project delivery process to continually improve and enhance team outputs
- More details can be found in the role profile

Requirements

What you’ll need

- Degree qualified or equivalent in an engineering or business discipline
- Significant experience in a Leadership role and managing teams
- Strong experience in an Engineering / Projects biased senior leadership position
- Strong experience of P&L management and managing budgets (cost centres)
- Able to mentor/lead management teams effectively
- Demonstrable knowledge of the AACE International Estimate Classification System, based on design maturity, estimating methods, & accuracy to guide budget /funding (Class 5 to 1 frameworks)
- Experience and understanding of heavy engineering processes relating to studies, feeds and general engineering consulting

Benefits

Comp & perks

25 days holiday plus bank holidays**Contribution towards eye test and glasses**Online company discount benefits site including cinema tickets and gym membership discount**Long Service Awards**Employee recognition scheme – ELITE Awards**Employee Assistance Programme**Flexible Benefits Package**Onsite parking ******We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.*******Please note this role may close early or be extended depending on the volume of applications.*****

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Hard Skills & Tools

project deliverybudget managementP&L managementperformance metricsrisk managementcontinuous improvementengineering processesAACE International Estimate Classification Systemcost estimationresource forecasting

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationproblem-solvingteam managementanalytical skillsstrategic thinkinggovernancecollaborationdecision-making