Our client is a leader in Fuel Cell innovation and technology, and is now working with global OEMs to commercialise its fuel cell products.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join their world-class technology team responsible for delivering projects ranging from complex advanced engineering projects through to larger cradle-to-grave projects resulting in a fully validated and certified product in line with customer and legislative requirements. This position will provide the right candidate with an opportunity to be involved in a fast-paced, expanding organisation where personal achievements are recognised and rewarded through personal development and professional growth.
The Project Manager will deliver projects to time, cost and quality by defining detailed project plans, liaising with internal resources to ensure milestones are met, acting as a prime point of contact with the key customers and suppliers, and addressing all necessary factors to ensure project success. The ideal candidate for this role will be a confident, enthusiastic, versatile, determined and organised individual who is keen to develop their career in a dynamic environment; he/she is likely to have previous project management experience in a technical organisation.

Key Accountabilities:
* Proactively promote the company values, principles and policies, ensuring that ethical, legal and corporate requirements are applied in all internal and external dealings
* Identify and manage internal and external stakeholders, maintaining a good understanding of their influence and interests; ensuring that confidentiality requirements are maintained at all times
* Prepare, issue and obtain approval of the Project Charter in accordance with the company Project Delivery Process; ensure that the Charter is maintained throughout the project life-cycle including the effects of changes in scope, timing and cost
* Ensure project objectives are clear and unambiguous, and that success is defined and achievable
* Deliver projects in accordance with the company Project Delivery Process and in compliance with the company Quality Procedures
* Prepare and maintain the project plan, including key milestones and deliverables, ensuring that dependencies and resourcing needs are accurately defined to inform capacity planning activities
* In close cooperation with functional leaders, identify and secure the resources required to deliver the project successfully within the constraints of budget, time and capacity
* Manage internal and external costs through consistent planning and tracking; maintaining accurate variance to plan, forecast and cost to complete information
* Define, develop and manage the delivery team to achieve all project objectives
* Proactively manage the project risks, recording their identification, quantification and mitigation in the risk register and monitoring them accordingly; know when to escalate risks to senior management
* Prepare and maintain project management reports in accordance with the company reporting framework through regular and structured project reviews
* Identify and manage changes in project scope, timing and cost through the company Change Control Notification process; ensuring that controlled documents (e.g. Project Charter) are updated and approved as required by the process
* Be proactive in resolving conflict to meet the project and corporate objectives; knowing when to escalate issues
* Identify and declare opportunities to share project knowledge and outcomes to benefit the business on-going operations; ensure that lessons learnt throughout the project are documented and shared
* Identify opportunities for continuous improvement to achieve productivity and / or efficiency objectives

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required:
* Degree qualified in a relevant engineering discipline
* Direct project management experience or other role with transferrable skills gained in a technical organisation
* Excellent communication skills
* Good understanding of project management techniques underpinned by technical background
* Experience of project managing or working within technically complex engineering projects from R&D through to start of production/product launch
* Good experience of customer and supplier relationship management
* Ability to adapt rapidly to changing priorities and situations, working in a fast-paced environment
* Experience in the following would also be advantageous:
o MS Project Server
o APM and / or PRINCE2
o Agile project management techniques (i.e. Sprint/Scrum)
o Process development and continuous improvement

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