Total 7 Business Management / Project / Planning job vacancies in Yeovil, Somerset, BA20 2YD

Your new company
As an accomplished and professional project manager, you will have an opportunity to join a highly ranked and award-winning provider of higher education based in North East Somerset, ranked in the top 10 in the UK by The Guardian's 2024 university guide. Your new employer is ambitious, they have a defined strategy in place to drive excellence across both areas of education and high impact research.

Your new role
You will lead on the management of projects up to £1m in value relating to building alterations and refurbishments across a diverse and specialist estate. You will lead on the implementation and planning of projects, defining project scopes and goals, ensuring that they are agreed by all stakeholders. As a Project Manager, you will coordinate a range of both internal and external stakeholders, including consultants, contractors, subcontractors, and other specialist teams within the university.

What you'll need to succeed
In order to succeed in this position, you will need to have extensive experience in the management of delivery of a wide range of construction projects. You will need to understand the legal aspects of NEC and JCT contracts, and be able to demonstrate excellent stakeholder management skills.

What you'll get in return
In return, you will receive a starting salary of up to £44,200 per year - in addition, you will be able to take advantage of a wide range of industry-leading employment benefits, to include up to 30 days of annual leave per year (38 days off each year), access to a leading pension scheme, a 35-hour working week, the opportunity to work up to two days from home, and a flexi-hours scheme allowing you to manage your own diary and calendar to work with your personal life outside of employment.

What you need to do now
Our client has opted to shortlist for this position immediately, therefore please apply ASAP if you would be interested in exploring this role in further detail.

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Do you have an eye for spotting risks and horizon scanning? Can you use your conservation background to act as an ambassador and align key activity to programme objectives?

About the role
As Conservation Project Manager you will bring together project management skills, specialist conservation and collections care expertise, problem solving, and team leadership skills to deliver collections projects at NCC. More information about NCC can be found below.

Reporting to the Group Conservation Manager, you will work collaboratively and proactively with other Project Managers and departments to enable the Conservation team to deliver Masterplan and Collections Services projects. This includes ensuring that conservation and collection care elements are correctly scoped and resourced and that conservation budgets are managed accordingly.

You will manage and matrix manage conservators across several projects. Using your conservation specialist knowledge of materials and practices, you will help your team plan works and review processes to ensure they are fit for purpose, making decisions to improve efficiencies and ways of working.

Full time (35 hours), Fixed term contract until Dec 2025 - Hybrid working from Wroughton Office.
Offering £40,133 per annum

There may be the possibility of the extension for this role depending on the Science Museum Group work programme.

About you
You will have solid experience of conservation project management with the ability to analyse, forward plan, coordinate and manage people. From this, you have the ability to find innovative conservation solutions to complex problems, and to define and report on key performance indicators, key dependencies and milestones and risk.

With great people and negotiation skills, you can maintain a strong reputation for delivery whist effectively engaging with senior stakeholders, and acting as a successful, and trusted ambassador for your team.

About the National Collections Centre
This position is based at the National Collections Centre, at the Science and Innovation Park in Wroughton within the Collection Services Department.

The 545-acre Science and Innovation Park is the home of the Science Museum Group's National Collections Centre (NCC), our hub for collections management and access. The National Collections Centre is transforming how we care, manage, and make accessible over 400,000 objects and 1.5M items in our Library and Archive. A new collections management facility houses a vast range of objects in the collection from microscope slides to railway carriages, other objects are stored in repurposed aircraft hangars, sustainable hempcrete constructed buildings and other facilities dispersed across the park.

There's something really special about working at the Science and Innovation Park. You are surrounded by the stunning Wiltshire countryside, with ever-changing weather, spectacular sunsets and lots of wildlife to spot as you move around the site. But the best part of the NCC is the people, you'll be joining a wonderful and passionate community of individuals.

Applying
View the Vacancy Information Pack listed under 'Attachments' on the vacancy listing on our website for more details about the role and the application process or click 'Apply Online' to submit an application.

What we offer
Working with a world-leading museum group that offers access to truly unique environments and collections, you'll benefit from the perks listed below, as well as full support for life events such as parental and adoption leave, sickness, and career breaks.

• Meaningful work. We're a mission-led organisation where the work you do supports us in Inspiring Futures.
• Career growth. We offer enhanced support with personal and professional development.
• Work/life balance. We offer 27 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, along with flexible policies which support you and your home life.
• Health & Dental Insurance. Extra peace of mind, from day one.
• All our colleagues can access an employee assistance programme, access to the Unmind app, and other wellbeing support.
• Enhanced contributory pension. To support you in saving for the future.
• Interest-free loans. When you need a little extra cash for life events or home improvements.
• Great discounts. Free entry to exhibitions, discounts in our shops, cafes, and access to other museums in the NMDC network.

Open for All is one of the Science Museum Group's five core values and sets out our important aspiration to be a place for everyone. We are working hard to understand our organisation better and to develop a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, experience, knowledge, and expertise. By having greater diversity, we believe that we will be a stronger and better organisation, capable to continue to Inspire Futures.

EDF Energy is a core part of the EDF Group, one of the largest energy companies in Europe with key business operations in the UK, France, Italy and Belgium. We're the UK’s largest producer of low-carbon electricity, the biggest supplier of electricity by volume in Great Britain, the largest supplier to British businesses and we employ more than 13,000 people. We operate nuclear, coal and gas power stations, wind farms, and combined heat & power plants. We have a focus on safe, dependable energy generation and an ethos of service excellence. We are playing a leading role in new nuclear build in the UK to secure a bright future for the combined business and its employees.
Senior Logistics Planning Manager

Are you experienced in leading logistics planning teams through complex, large-scale projects and ensuring alignment with strategic goals? Are you skilled at identifying and mitigating capacity constraints while optimising logistics processes for long-term success? Are you confident in using data analytics to drive logistics strategy and inform decision-making across cross-functional teams?
If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as our next Senior Logistics Planning Manager here at Hinkley Point C!

The Opportunity

As a key leader, the Senior Logistics Planning Manager will oversee and drive logistics planning across the entire logistics organisation. This role is pivotal in coordinating the demand for logistics services in alignment with the 120-month project plan, working closely with Logistics Operations and Construction teams to address and mitigate constraints and risks. You will lead and manage the Logistics Planning Team, including the Capacity Management Leads and Logistics Analysts.

Supporting the Head of Logistics, you’ll play a central role in shaping the project’s logistics strategy, policies, and standards. By proactively aligning logistics demand—such as inbound materials from suppliers and outbound deliveries to site—with available capacity, you will identify and resolve capacity constraints, ensuring the right materials are available at the right time and place. Your leadership will be key in optimising logistics capacity utilisation to keep the project on track.

Pay, benefits and culture

Alongside a salary range of £70,000
- £80,000 and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal.
We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.

Here, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.

We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.

What you will be doing

You'll collaborate with the Senior Construction Logistics Manager and Senior Logistics Operations Manager to develop a feasible logistics plan that addresses capacity constraints. Working with the Head of Logistics, you'll recommend a long-term logistics baseline and manage the Logistics Capacity leads to ensure accurate data inputs into the plan. You'll also partner with functional data owners to maintain data accuracy and build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and third-party logistics partners. By fostering communication within the team, you'll optimise planning activities and support KPI reporting on logistics planning capability. Additional responsibilities include:


- Define the Logistics capacity baseline plan for delivering services in alignment with the Project plan.
- Identify and highlight key risks and issues that may impact the long-term logistics planning horizon (Product Lifecycle Management).
- Responsible for updating the logistics capacity plan, consolidating inputs from various sources.
- Lead the identification, communication, and management of risks, gaps, and changes to the plan, coordinating actions and escalations for identified constraints.
- Ensure integration of logistics into the Integrated Planning process and governance.
- Manage logistics capacity and constraints across long, mid, and short-term planning horizons.
- Chair the Logistics Capacity Planning meeting, reviewing 4
- and 16-week logistics plans and addressing constraints.
- Monitor and support the mitigation action plan to ensure resolution of identified risks or constraints.


Who you are

With a strong delivery focus, you excel at influencing stakeholders and driving results through data analysis and logistics planning. You have in-depth knowledge of logistics and planning methodologies, along with a solid understanding of engineering, procurement, and construction methods in the UK. Experienced in NEC and FIDIC contracts, you also possess strong skills in logistics risk analysis and decision-making. Your exceptional communication, leadership, and problem-solving abilities, paired with attention to detail, enable you to manage complex projects. You build strong relationships, applying expertise in scheduling, change management, and risk management to ensure successful project delivery. Additional requirements for this role include:


- Extensive experience in warehouse and logistics operations, offering valuable insights into operational requirements
- Highly skilled in logistics planning and operations, particularly for major capital projects in construction or related industries
- Strong technical data management expertise
- Proficient in data analytics, with a keen ability to identify patterns and constraints
- Deep understanding of the integrated planning process
- Clear and effective communicator, adept at escalating and gathering feedback on logistics capacity and constraints from internal and external teams
- Familiar with using Supplier Portal for data extraction
- Skilled at simplifying complex issues for both technical and non-technical senior audiences


We’re looking for you to utilise your experience with a degree in a relevant field or background in logistics and supply chain planning, especially in highly regulated sectors like nuclear, aerospace, or energy, you have led teams in complex projects, influencing multiple stakeholders. Your experience with logistics and planning frameworks has enabled you to apply these methodologies effectively in major infrastructure projects. You're also an expert in planning technology solutions, successfully managing their implementation and delivery. Your leadership has been crucial in driving team performance and fostering collaboration across integrated project teams.

Applications for this role close: Sunday 8th December

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A patient focused group of independent Opticians are looking for a full or part time Optometrist for their well-established Burnham-on-Sea practice.

You will be able to provide patents with a personalised experience, utilising some of the most advanced equipment available.

Optometrist - Role

• Modern independent
• Single testing room
• Small, close knit team
• Loyal patient base
• Focus on patient care
• Providing thorough sight tests to patients - 30 mins
• Advanced equipment - Optomap, OCT, Tonometer, digital slitlamp
• Optix computer system
• Working alongside an experienced Dispensing Optician
• High level of clinical freedom - You decide how to manage the patient, and what lens/contact lenses you want to dispense
• Working 3, 4 or 5 days a week including Saturdays
• Opening hours from 9am to 5.30pm (5pm on a Sat)
• Salary between £50,000 to £65,000 DOE, plus bonus
• Staff discount
• Private medical insurance
• Private indemnity insurance
• Life cover
• Relocation package available
• Continuous training and development
• Encouraged to pick up additional accreditations and specialisms - areas like dry eye, macular degeneration, glaucoma, specialist contact lenses, myopia control and orthokeratology.
• Support from other Optoms, Trainers and Professional services teams

Optometrist - Requirements

• Fully qualified Optometrist registered with the GOC
• Happy to work as the sole Optom
• Willing to learn and develop
• Wants be able to provide the very best eye test possible
• Wants to provide higher levels of communication and patient engagement
• Focus on clinical excellence

To apply for this role please send a copy of your CV to Rebecca Wood using the apply now link.

Role: Project Engineer
Position: Contract
Location: Hinkley Point C Somerset

Duration: CED 31/12/2025 Rolling 12 months thereafter

Day Rate: Dependent on experience

Role Overview

We are looking for a project engineer within the commissioning business unit the successful candidate will have experience of managing a scope of work from pre operations from concept to completion, with a construction background, and a good understanding of procurement activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Project Manager with day-to-day activities required to deliver work in line with the project plan including safety, quality, schedule, and cost objectives. Working with and supporting a multi-disciplinary team to deliver a common objective.
• Working with the Project Manager to define the work scope to be delivered within the contract or package of work and the interfaces to the other elements of the programme.
• Delivery of assigned small projects, jobs and tasks ensuring that the work is conducted in a safe, timely and effective manner in line with the relevant procedures.
• Prepare and maintain project documentation including Project Definition Document, Project Brief, Quality Plans, and other documents as required.
• Developing and executing effective execution strategies and plans in line with the overall programme execution plan (PEP), setting out how the programme of work will be manages, organised and executed. The PEP sets out the 'why', 'what', 'how', 'when' and 'who' for the delivery of the programme.
• Maintaining effective communications with all stakeholders and executing the project or PEP strategies within their contract or package of work
• Under the guidance and direction of the Project Manager drive the delivery of the contract or package activities to ensure they are delivered safely on time, to budget, meeting business & technical requirements. Monitor and manage the progress of the programme - track progress against milestones, deadlines, budget and provide key stakeholders with reports on these matters.
• Anticipate, manage and resolve issues within the contract or package. Identify risks and facilitate the resolution of all issues raised, develop and update the programme budget, and escalate any issues to the Project Manager
• Facilitate and chair project meetings and regular progress meetings as required by the Project Manager
• Ensure that contract or package contractual requirements are fulfilled.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with all project team members
• Identifying, implementing and complying with applicable safety, environmental and quality standards, company procedures and policies and other relevant legislative and regulatory requirements
• Review documentation including contractors documents and drawings.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• Large scale construction experience
• H&S Knowledge
• Degree in engineering or equivalent

Desirable

• Nuclear new Build experience would be an advantage but not essential

At Hinkley Point C, you will shape the future of nuclear energy and contribute to a cleaner, sustainable tomorrow. This role offers the chance to collaborate on an ambitious project with a positive impact on the environment and society.

If this sounds of interest, please APPLY NOW with your CV and a cover letter highlighting your suitability for this exciting role.

Good Luck!

This vacancy is being advertised by Rullion Ltd acting as an employment business.

Since 1978, Rullion has been securing exceptional candidates for a range of clients; from large well-known brands to SMEs and start-ups. As a family-owned business, Rullion's approach is credible and honest, focused on building long-lasting relationships with both clients and candidates.

Rullion is a forward-thinking recruitment company that specialises in providing a wide range of talent consultancy services to a diverse client base, from small start-ups to large household names.

We celebrate and support diversity and are committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants.

Thanks

Rullion

Rullion celebrates and supports diversity and is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants.

Project Engineer

£35 - £45 per hour

40 Hours Per week, 8 hour shifts each day

Manpower has an exciting opportunity to join our client on their Yeovil site as a Project Engineer. This role will be focusing on technical publications for Yeovil and working with suppliers and will involve liaising with the engineering teams on site.

In return we will be able to offer a hybrid working model of 3 days in office, 2 days working from home (after an initial 6-8-week period of full office hours)

This role is a 6-month contract with the possibility of extension.

Key responsibilities of the role:

• Creating & raising POs with the supplier for some of the work, lead time and costs from the supplier.
• A lot of interaction with the suppliers will be over the phone and email but hoping to get the suppliers to come on site.
• Requirement collation and proposal template preparation.
• Estimations in AET (Estimation Tool)
• Review and approval documents (only applicable docs)
• Submission to OEM
• Liaising with engineering in Yeovil on the finer detail of the hardware.

Requirements:

• Full BPSS* Screening (*Baseline Personnel Security Standard), including proof of Legal Right to Work, Criminal Records Check, i.e. UK DBS and Drugs Screening.
• 2-3 years of experience in this field would be ideal.
• Experience working as a project engineer.
• Ability to communicate clearly & concisely on complex technical matters to various levels in the organisation.
• Ability to multi-task and re-prioritize tasks quickly in a dynamically changing environment.

What we offer:

As a valued employee of the Manpower, you'll have access to a range of amazing benefits;

• We offer a pre-12-week arrangement of 25 days annual leave per annum, which will increase to 33 days post 12-week arrangement.
• Staff discounts (range of lifestyle goods and services)
• Pension contribution
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Eye care vouchers
• Referral Schemes
• MyPath Development programme (our Global Programme through dedicated Talent coaches that have been accredited to guide employees through a portal of specifically identified online courses through PowerYou training portal)

To hear more about this exciting opportunity, get in touch today!

Senior Transport Planner

Brigdwater

At Gregory Distribution, we are currently seeking an experienced Senior Transport Planner in our busy Bridgwater Depot. This position involves complete planning and scheduling for the Bridgwater operation and ensuring that the customer's requirements are met.

The position of Senior Transport Planner involves:

• Oversee the Management of planning, organising and supervising the activities and resources of the business.
• Planning and organising the activities of the Transport Operation, including the transition between the customers' peak and off-peak activity periods.
• Planning loads (inbound and outbound) delivery for the operation whilst monitoring KPI for delivery on time, shift revenue and vehicle utilisation.
• Managing and de-briefing drivers.
• Ensuring that vehicle activity is planned in the most efficient manner.
• Meeting daily revenue targets per shift per vehicle.
• Meeting on a regular basis with Line Managers to ensure that we are operating efficiently.
• Identifying and developing additional areas where we can add value to existing contracts.
• Ensuring that all contracted work is covered in line with customer expectations.
• Communicating collection times and delivery bookings with customers.
• Adherence to policies and procedures within the Business Area.
• The boundaries prescribed by HACCP must be observed, where relevant, at all times.
• Company Safe Systems of Work must be observed and followed at all times. This includes maintaining standards of personal hygiene, as detailed in SSOW and Company Rules Book, especially wearing of uniform and PPE at all times.

Essential Skills required for Senior Transport Planner:

• Previous experience of working within the logistics industry.
• Previous planning experience.
• Have a good understanding of legal compliance, driver's hours and WTD's.
• Leadership Skills.
• Track record of leading successful change.
• Proven experience in customer relationship management.
• Have excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• IT literate including MS Office. Strong analytic ability in review data and reports.

Why Gregory Distribution?

• Salary for Senior Transport Planner is between £35,000pa - £40,000pa, Depending on Experience.
• Hours of work: 0#8:00pm to 17:00am. Monday to Friday.
• Additional holiday purchasing scheme*
• Retail discounts with Hapi*
• Retail Trust Wellbeing Support*
• Opportunity to develop your career within an expanding business.
• Excellent holiday allowance and company benefits.
• Life assurance, pension and sickness scheme*
• Christmas Savings Club*
• Black Circle Tyre discount*
• Leading industry qualifications*
• This vacancy is not entitled to the employee referral scheme.

• Free Uniform.
• Strong culture of teamwork.

So if you have the drive to be the best and want to be a part of a flourishing and ambitious company, apply now for this vacancy.

Please submit your application as soon as possible; due to the high volumes of applications we receive, and we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.

The Gregory Group require all applicants to be eligible to work in the UK with no restrictions, as we are unable to offer sponsorship/work visas. You will be required to provide proof of Right to Work at interview stage.

Interested applicants for the Senior Transport Planner position should click the apply button below. For any queries in relation to the vacancy please contact our Recruitment Team on . Please take into account that our Recruitment Team work Monday to Friday 08:30hrs - 17:00hrs, so we will get back to you as soon as we can.

External Website Applications: You will be redirected to the Gregory distribution Website where you can apply for this vacancy. You will be asked to complete a short application form and will receive email confirmation when it has been submitted.

Note to recruitment agencies: We prefer to recruit direct, but we do have a Preferred Supplier List for when we need a helping hand. We'll be in touch if we need you.

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