7 transportation jobs found in Stockport

Senior Highway Engineer Location: Crewe, Cheshire Rate: £45 - £50 p/hour Contract: Initial 6 Months Working Pattern: Hybrid Hours: 40 Per Week IR35 Status: Inside IR35 An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior Highway Engineer to join a well-established highways team delivering a range of highway improvement and active travel schemes across Cheshire East. This role would suit a technically strong highways professional with significant experience in highway design and the ability to provide expert interpretation of design standards, whilst supporting the successful delivery of projects from conception through to completion. The Role As a Senior Highway Engineer, you will play a key role in managing the technical delivery of projects, providing guidance to engineers and technicians, and acting as a senior point of contact for clients and stakeholders. You will be responsible for reviewing designs, advising on technical matters, allocating work across the...

Transformation Project Manager 6 Months Leeds/Bradford - 1-2 days per week £500 per day (Inside IR35) ***The selected candidate MUST HAVE strong digital transformation experience*** This role requires a technically minded project leader who can manage complex technology initiatives, coordinate cross-functional teams, and ensure successful delivery in a fast-paced Agile environment. Key Responsibilities Lead end-to-end delivery of complex digital engineering and technology transformation projects. Manage multiple concurrent workstreams, ensuring delivery against agreed scope, budget, quality and timelines. Work closely with Solution Architects, Technical Leads, Software Engineers and Operations teams throughout the project lifecycle. Coordinate technical dependencies across engineering, infrastructure and business teams. Drive project governance, RAID management, reporting and executive stakeholder communications. Facilitate planning sessions, sprint reviews and programme...

Senior Procurement Manager £(Apply online only) per day | Inside IR35 | Interim (August-October) 📍 Warrington (1-2 days per week) | Hybrid Working We're delighted to be recruiting on behalf of our client for an experienced Senior Procurement Manager to join them on a high-impact interim assignment. This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially driven procurement professional to play a key role in delivering strategic sourcing programmes, driving procurement savings and efficiencies, and supporting a significant procurement transformation programme, including ERP integration activities. Working closely with the Head of Procurement and senior stakeholders across the business, you will lead complex sourcing initiatives, optimise supplier performance, and help embed best-practice procurement processes across the division. Key Responsibilities Deliver sourcing projects and category strategies that generate measurable savings and efficiencies. Lead complex negotiations and...

SC Cleared User Researcher Location: Predominantly Remote (occasional travel required for user research activities) Rate: £492 per day (Umbrella) IR35 Status: Inside IR35 Security Clearance: Active SC Clearance and BPSS required Your New Role We are currently recruiting for an experienced User Researcher to join a major public sector transformation programme. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping digital services that are accessible, inclusive, and truly centred around user needs. Working within a multidisciplinary agile environment, you will lead and deliver user research across different stages of the service lifecycle, helping teams make evidence-based decisions that improve user outcomes and support wider organisational transformation. The successful candidate will have extensive experience working within the Public Sector and a strong understanding of Government Digital Service (GDS) standards and ways of working. What You'll Be Doing...

Non-Functional Test Lead £700/day Inside IR35 | Until March 2027 | Leeds (3 days per week) | ASAP Start The Role We're looking for an experienced Non-Functional Test Lead to join a large-scale enterprise transformation programme, taking ownership of the non-functional testing strategy across multiple workstreams. You'll lead the Performance Testing and Operations Acceptance Testing (OAT) teams, ensuring the platform is resilient, scalable and ready for production. This is a key leadership role, working closely with engineering, architecture and delivery teams to drive performance, operational readiness and continuous improvement throughout the programme lifecycle. Key Responsibilities Define and own the end-to-end non-functional testing strategy across the programme. Lead the Volume & Performance Testing and Operations Acceptance Testing (OAT) teams. Establish performance test plans, scenarios and success criteria aligned to business and technical requirements. Monitor,...

Test Manager £600-£650/day | Inside IR35 | Until March 2027 | 3 Days/Week On-site in Leeds | Immediate Start We're looking for an experienced Test Manager to lead quality assurance across a large-scale digital transformation programme. You'll be responsible for defining the overall testing strategy, leading a team of Quality Engineers, and ensuring quality is embedded throughout the software delivery lifecycle. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a strong background in test management, automation and stakeholder engagement who enjoys leading teams in a fast-paced Agile environment. Key Responsibilities Define and deliver the overall test strategy across multiple workstreams. Lead, mentor and develop a team of Quality Engineers. Drive the adoption of test automation, with a strong focus on Playwright. Establish testing standards, processes, KPIs and quality metrics. Oversee test planning, execution, defect management and reporting. Work closely with engineering,...

Programme Benefits Manager £550/day | Inside IR35 | Until December | Remote with 1-2 Days/Month in Leeds We're recruiting for an experienced Programme Benefits Manager to support a major NHS digital transformation programme. This is a senior, hands-on role where you'll be responsible for ensuring programme benefits are identified, measured, tracked and realised, helping to demonstrate value and inform key investment decisions. Previous NHS experience is essential. Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain the programme's benefits management strategy, framework and realisation plans. Define benefits, KPIs and success measures, ensuring they align with programme objectives and business cases. Track, measure and report on benefits delivery, producing clear reporting and dashboards for senior stakeholders. Identify risks, dependencies and issues that could impact benefit realisation. Work closely with programme teams, operational stakeholders and suppliers to validate benefits and...