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