Project Manager - Research & Development
£45,000 - £60,000 + excellent bens.
Chelmsford, Essex (4 days p/w onsite)
We are a global leader in specialised components and subsystems for innovative solutions in medical, science, aerospace, defence and industrial applications.
Our products do many things including saving people's lives by finding and treating cancer, helping map our planet and the universe and freezing the atom down to 0° Kelvin.
Working with us will enable you to develop and gain experience in the ideas that are behind some of the most advanced technologies in the world.
Role responsibilities: Project Manager - Research & Development
You will be managing one of the Power Project streams, ensuring that these complex engineering projects are delivered on time, on cost, and to quality expectations. These project streams include Multi-projects and encompass both customer facing projects and internal R&D projects.
What will you be doing: Project Manager - Research & Development
Coordinating your engineering team, other departments and third parties / suppliers, for the successful execution of projects.
Ensuring that roles and tasks are clearly defined, understood and delivered.
Ensure that the Project activities are appropriately planned, costed and adequately resourced to achieve the programme in the most cost-effective manner.
Carry out regular and thorough reviews of the progress and delivery of the Projects assessing all aspects of the project, including time, cost, quality, and risks.
Managing changes, in project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders, ensuring feasibility, and undertaking impact assessment, communicating, and seeking approval of changes.
Keeps project stakeholders informed of project progress, performance and manpower utilization with attention to achievements, progress, risk management and forecast.
Managing relationships with customers and other stakeholders, as required.
Ensuring projects are delivered in adherence with internal project management processes and procedures.
Ensure the Project team follows an effectively tailored Life Cycle Management Process,
Establish new or improve existing delivery methodology to deliver the programme goals. Embracing new concepts in programme and product delivery, driving the implementation of best practice and new techniques with the wider programme delivery organisation
Line management of multi-disciplined Engineering teams
Your skills and experience: Project Manager - Research & Development
Extensive experience of managing engineering projects through all or part of the lifecycle from bid to production.
Demonstrable experience of energising teams to meet critical timescales and deliver projects.
Persuasive and clear communication skills across all levels of the business.
Strong problem solving capabilities.
Strong commercial awareness
Sound judgement - understanding when to own and brief and when to escalate.
Proficiency in the use and understanding of Project Management / resource tools such as MS Project and MS Project Server or other enterprise project management tool
