We are a leading provider of bakery, catering & powered access equipment, supplying businesses across the UK with high-quality solutions. Our team is passionate about delivering exceptional customer service and ensuring our clients get the most from their equipment.

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Industrial Project Manager with proven experience in the maintenance and installation of a full range of industrial & commercial doors, gates, barriers and loading bay equipment. This role includes regular UK travel, overnight stays, and occasional out-of-hours work.

This role also requires strong technical, leadership, and communication skills to effectively lead multi-disciplinary teams and drive successful outcomes within the Installations department.

The role will support the H&S function of the department, along with inter-department relationships and resource management.

Key Responsibilities:

• In-depth understanding of project delivery processes, from work winning and bid development through to project closeout.
• Strong working knowledge of UK technical and regulatory frameworks, as well as awareness of global best practices.
• A clear focus on process safety, quality assurance, and environmental compliance.
• Significant expertise in project controls – including scheduling, cost control, risk management, and change management.
• Agile, innovative, and highly collaborative approach to problem-solving and team leadership.
• Confident in client-facing environments, with a strong ability to develop, influence, and maintain effective stakeholder relationships.
• Complete pre-installation surveys to identify any potential issues, M&E upgrades, access/egress problems etc.
• Complete post-installation surveys and handovers, ensuring all installations are carried out to a high standard
• Produce detailed engineering reports
• Lead and drive the Innovation process, procedures and compliance for all projects
• Undertake additional tasks relevant to the position as needed.

What We’re Looking For:

• A full UK driving licence.
• Experienced Industrial door engineer with knowledge/certification of EN 16005, EN 13241, EN 12453, EN 12604, EN 12424, EN 16034, EN 12445, and UKCA
• Knowledge of working at height, manual handling, RAMs and H&S.
• Hands-on experience with Powered access equipment.
• Experience with safe electrical works.
• Relevant engineering experience.

Company Information

Who are we?
Miller’s Vanguard are proud to have been supporting all the UK’s Supermarket chains for over 40 years, in brief, we are the people in the background ensuring that supermarkets keep the Nation fed! Maintaining a wide and varied range of assets from food production equipment through to loading bay lifts.

Our service are as follows: 

• Nationwide reactive maintenance
• Hygienic Deep cleaning & Planned maintenance services
• Refurbishment, logistics and installation of equipment

We do all of this with the firm foundations of being owned by the global Ali Group, whose turnover is in excess of £4 billion p.a.

Our people
Despite being a large operation here at Miller’s Vanguard we still firmly believe in running the business like we have done for the last 40 years, by valuing our biggest asset we have YOU…the employee.

Our team of over 500 employees have the advantage of working in state-of-the-art working environments:

• New Technical response centre
• Award Winning research, Innovation, and recycling facility
• Industry leading Mercedes Benz fleet

We believe in providing you with the very best environment and tools to do the job.

Career Development
Training is also a huge part of our culture here at Miller’s Vanguard and our City and Guilds accredited training centre is where we coach and develop our employees regardless of your position or your length of service, we want to make sure that our staff can progress and keep pace with ever changing equipment technologies.

Why Join Us

• Training in our City & Guilds accredited academy
• Job Specific Uniform & tooling for all roles
• Company wide fun days and charity events
• Company Pension
• 24 Days holiday allowance + bank holidays
• Regular staff ‘treats’ for employees and their families