Project Manager - Industrial Digitalisation

Role: Industrial Digitalisation Project Manager

Location: Leatherhead (Surrey, UK) 

Job Type: Full time, 24 months Fixed term. 

Work Model: Hybrid (4 days in the Leatherhead office, 1 day remote) 

Required: 4+ years in project management, fluency in French and English. 

Travel: Regular short business trips to France, approximately once a month, for a few days at a time. 

Salary: £65,000 – £75,000 per annum (depending on experience)

Eigen is a leading provider of digital solutions for the energy sector, specialising in advanced data platforms, control system integration, industrial automation, and digital transformation initiatives. We help major operators enhance operational performance, increase safety, and accelerate their journey toward fully data-driven operations. 

As we expand our portfolio of digitalisation projects, we are seeking a skilled and motivated Project Manager to join our team in Leatherhead. 

Project Leadership & Delivery 

• Lead full lifecycle delivery of digital and IT projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical requirements. 
• Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams across engineering, IT, OT, and cybersecurity, ensuring clarity of roles, responsibilities, and deliverables. 
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, and execution strategies using Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid methodologies as appropriate. 

Technical Integration & Systems Thinking 

• Oversee integration of digital platforms with existing OT/IT systems, including SCADA, historians, DCS, cloud platforms, APIs, and data pipelines. 
• Work closely with architects and SMEs to ensure solutions are technically feasible, secure, and aligned with enterprise architecture. 

Stakeholder & Vendor Management 

• Build strong relationships with client stakeholders at all levels, from technical specialists to operational leaders. 
• Manage communication, expectations, risks, and dependencies across global and cross-disciplinary teams. 
• Lead vendor and integrator coordination, ensuring contractual and technical obligations are met. 

Scope, Budget & Quality Control 

• Establish clear project scope and maintain change control discipline throughout delivery. 
• Manage project budgets, financial forecasts, cloud licensing models, and cost reporting. 
• Define and run quality assurance processes, including system testing, cybersecurity validation, and documentation compliance.  

Risk, Compliance & Decision-Making 

• Identify and mitigate technical, operational, cybersecurity, and delivery risks. 
• Ensure digital solutions adhere to relevant industry standards and data governance requirements. 
• Make sound decisions in environments with technical uncertainty, variable data quality, and evolving requirements. 

Deployment, Change Management & Adoption 

• Plan and coordinate deployment into operational environments, ensuring minimal disruption and strong end-user acceptance. 
• Drive training, communication, support processes, and operational handover. 
• Ensure digital tools deliver measurable value and are adopted effectively by engineering and operations teams. 

Essential Qualifications 

• 4+ years’ project management experience, ideally in IT, digitalisation or industrial technology 

Key Competencies 

• Technical integration & systems thinking across OT/IT environments. 
• Strong stakeholder management across global, multi-functional teams. 
• Robust scope and change control discipline.
• Budgeting, license management, and cost forecasting. 
• Agile/Waterfall/hybrid scheduling and delivery orchestration. 
• Vendor and systems integrator management. 
• High proficiency with digital tools, dashboards, and project controls. 
• Risk-based decision-making under uncertainty. 
• Quality assurance, technical validation, and cybersecurity awareness. 
• Strong leadership, communication, and conflict-resolution abilities. 
• Experience delivering change management and driving operational adoption. 

Preferred Experience 

• Experience with managing projects using Jira. 
• Experience in Oil & Gas, energy, heavy industry, or other high-reliability sectors. 

• Competitive salary package with performance incentives. 
• Hybrid working model with flexibility. 
• Opportunity to work on high-impact digitalisation projects for major energy operators. 
• A collaborative team culture with supportive leadership and strong engineering expertise. 
• Professional development opportunities, including exposure to cutting-edge digital technologies and industry best practices. 
• A role that directly contributes to the digital future of industrial operations.