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Projects Lead – Team Leadership Role
At Celeros Flow Technology
About Celeros Flow Technology
For over 140 years, our products have ensured safe, reliable operations across key industries. Driven by a passion for precision and partnership, Celeros Flow Technology continues its legacy of high performance and dependability. We provide mission-critical, sustainable flow control solutions globally.
We seek bold and visionary individuals who thrive in a collaborative, multicultural environment. Embracing diversity, innovation, and change, we nurture talent to push boundaries and deliver exceptional results—with you at the heart.
About the Role
Primary responsibilities include:
- Acting as first-line management for the Projects team, ensuring safe and efficient operations.
- Allocating daily tasks, managing performance, development, and workflow.
- Maintaining standards and KPIs while supporting—and driving—the team towards exceeding margin and delivery goals.
- Serving as the primary customer point of contact (duration unknown).
- Proactively communicating latest delivery forecasts.
Key Responsibilities (Essential Functions)
As Projects Lead, you will be accountable for:
Core Project Leadership
- Maintain a positive and safe working environment.
- Drive KPI results alignment with company values and principles—always doing the right thing.
- Be a key leadership team member at Hillington.
- Proactively coach, develop, and manage team performance.
- Act as the primary focal point for contracts under your team’s control.
- Implement continuous improvements across the function.
- Ensure safe, incident-free delivery of all projects under your management.
- Oversee complete project lifecycle—from contract award to delivery.
- Drive team collaboration with key functions:
- Commercial (financial strategy),
- Engineering,
- Quality,
- Procurement,
- Manufacturing,
- Shipping—to meet delivery milestones.
- Serve as trade compliance leader for Hillington’s projects.
- Arrange key customer visits and witness activities.
- Develop and maintain high-level contract plans.
- Work with support teams to resolve delivery-plan adherence issues (escalate where applicable).
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Resources and Operations
- Manage project change through variation orders, capturing deviations and recovering costs.
- Effectively delegate tasks and optimise resource use.
- Identify and address bottlenecks along the value stream.
- Produce internal and external project status reports.
People Manager Responsibilities
- Lead the team with enablement and engagement, fostering collaboration.
- Help your team understand their personal interests and how to balance work and responsibilities.
- Maintain related relationships through open and honest coaching, using feedback to identify strengths and areas for growth.
- Align personal aspirations with team performance goals.
- Enable opportunities for career progression/stretch roles within the team.
- Work with HR to create and maintain a competency matrix and training plans.
- Ensure training/development plans are actioned effectively.
- Promote health and wellbeing, monitoring absence and driving inclusivity.
- Drive performance measurement, development planning and annual review processes.
Requirements
Essential Requirements
- Proven track record in building and leading effective teams, ensuring team members succeed in meeting stretch targets.
- Expertise in customer-focused delivery planning.
- Strong interpersonal skills—effective communication with conflict resolution, assertive team leadership.
- Advanced written and oral communication skills (internal to external).
- Proficiency in SAP and Excel (used daily).
- Keen numeracy and attention to detail.
- High-level understanding of scheduling, project management, and planning frameworks.
- Prior people management experience preferred.
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Legal Trust Requirements
- Legal entitlement to work in the UK. Celeros Flow Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Physical Demands
-No manual labour involved, but reasonable adequacy expected across typical office work tasks, including:
- Standing, sitting, and light-to-moderate lifting.
- Frequent use of speech, hearing, and hands/fingers (e.g., computer tasks).
- Periodic travel (by air or road).
Working Conditions
- Office location will be in a shared or individual desk environment.
- Extended computer use and/or lengthy travel periods (car/plane).
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Performance-related bonus
- Flexible and enjoyable 33 days holiday per year (including bank holidays)
- Holiday buy/sell scheme
- Pension plan
- Employee life insurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Comprehensive digital benefits package covering financial health/lifestyle/wealth support
Celeros Flow Technology Values
Every employee shoulders responsibility for these philosophical anchors:
- Integrity – Safety, respect, and leading by commitment.
- Speed – Energy-driven urgency to deliver mission-critical flow solutions.
- Accountability – Reliability, value integrity, fair dealing.
- Partnership – Collaboration for common success.
- Excellence – Unrelenting drive for engineering, manufacturing, customer satisfaction.
Quality Standards
All employees must uphold a standard of excellence company-wide—no exceptions. Any nonconformity in products, processes, or systems must be reported and resolved via specified channels.
Celeros Flow Technology is an equal opportunity employer. Accommodations for disabilities will be accommodated where possible.
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