Project Manager

Our engineering clients based in Fareham have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join their growing team.

They are seeking an experienced Project Manager who has worked within manufacturing and who have experience running multiple projects.

Duties & Responsibilities

Preparation of project plans with associated budget, resource requirements and schedule as required.
Working closely with cross-functional business teams to ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget and to cost constraints
Management of a mix of multi-project portfolio ranging from short duration express projects and more complex longer duration engineering projects
Management of projects through their lifespan in line with best practice project management processes
Regular reporting of project status and progress updates to all relevant stakeholders.
Maintaining and developing customer relationships with regular project updates to keep customers informed on all aspects of project status
Maintaining, tracking and reporting of project related KPIs with traffic light escalation as appropriate
Analysis of projects with lessons learnt and improvement actions, engagement with quality team
Risk management identifying, sizing, reporting, monitoring, and mitigating as appropriate
Management of projects actions, issues, and risk register.
Contribution with technical and engineering resource requirements for business planning and budgeting.
Preparation and presentation of project status data to enable allocation and prioritisation of resources in conjunction with business stakeholders
Liaison and negotiation with business stakeholders for the allocation of budget approved resources to projects.
Maintain a common understanding across all cross -functional stakeholders of deliverable expectations from allocated tasks and delivery dates.
Maintain process and practice consistency with appropriate review and refresh of BMS processes, work instructions, templates and tools
Participation in the review, creation and improvement of best practice project management processes and associated procedures and toolsets.

Ideal skills & experience:

Experience working with electromechanical manufactured products, or within the defence industry would be an advantage
Experience running multiple projects
Experienced Project Manager with exposure to working within the manufacturing industry

Working hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Informal hybrid working arrangements in place

Benefits:

25 days holiday + BH

Pension

Sick pay

Life assurance, after probation period

plus, other benefits