Connecting Talent to opportunity

Connecting Talent to opportunity

Project Manager

Expired

Job Description:

The ideal candidate will not be afraid to engage with their team and be good at planning and coordinating their work and the work of others.

Experienced in using MSP

Working with Asian customers would be useful but not essential

Experience of working on Grant funded projects, also useful but not essential

OVERVIEW

Role:

Managing full life cycle projects including the design, development, manufacture and assembly of 'niche volume' transmissions or similarly complex components within the clients Performance Products division.

The Project Manager is the key customer contact and has full responsibility for delivering the operational, technical and commercial outcomes for both client and the Customer, through effective management of all the business resources within client and suppliers.

Key Skills

  • Managing resources outside direct supervisory control to achieve objectives
  • Working as part of a team to achieve team objectives
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present to and manage customers
  • Understanding of and sensitivity to commercial factors
  • Clear, logical thinker with the ability to understand and solve problems
  • Work with the Sales team to achieve further sales with existing customers
  • Managing technically complex projects
  • Self-supporting to interrogate business systems and generate required documentation and reports to demonstrate project status
  • Ability to manage changing requirements both within the client and the customer

Must have

  • Ability to achieve project goals through the leadership of a multi-functional team
  • Good working knowledge of project management processes and principles
  • Good mechanical engineering knowledge
  • Working knowledge and experience of formal Quality frameworks
  • Ability to manage the relationship with a customer who is technically/commercially competent, confident and demanding
  • Working knowledge of New Product Introduction processes in the automotive, aerospace or similar industries
  • Demonstrable record in delivering projects on time and to budget


Desirable Experience

  • Management of projects through development phase into production
  • Working with complex mechanical systems, preferably automotive transmissions
  • Management of assembly operations
  • Working with and managing Bills of Materials
  • Management of suppliers of component parts
  • Quality control in New Product Introduction (APQP)
  • Design for Manufacture
  • Component and system functionality testing.

IT skills

  • Good level of PC and general computer skills, particularly with Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint.

Education

  • Educated to degree standard in a relevant engineering discipline or able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge through experience.
  • Further Project Management (e.g. APMP or Prince2) would be advantageous
  • Job Type

    Permanent, Full Time

  • Work Authorisation

    No

  • Industry Sector Other