Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Work closely and communicate effectively with the customer and cross-functional teams to plan and define scope, deliverables, required resources, work plan, budget, and schedule for contracts.
• Drive cross functional collaboration between teams to ensure the delivery of customer orders on-time in-full, meeting all defined customer requirements, meeting the schedule and commercial performance targets. 
• Understand and manage budget for projects and be accountable for delivering against established business goals/objectives.
• Monitor cost and spend against product and project costs to quickly identify variance from profitability targets and report cost to complete metrics.
• Identify project risks and opportunities across the contract lifecycle, ensuring implementation of mitigations in a timely manner to minimise project impact.  Maintain contract risk registers, issue logs and action plans for reporting internally and to the customer.

• Produce and communicate contract status reports for the customer, and internal stakeholders.
• Develop and report process performance measures.
• Ensure the project status and its performance is visible throughout the business to allow issues and risks to be understood, resolution identified, and action plans implemented.
• Support forecasting and financial planning, escalating issues for senior management attention and resolution.

Experience

• Degree or equivalent in a Technical or Commercial discipline.
• Accredited and recognised Project Management qualification or will have an equivalent level of experience in commercially focused project management roles.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Project Manager on specialised manufacturing projects – referably in a global defence/aerospace/energy business.
• Strong leadership skills and able to demonstrate evidence of influencing and team working capabilities.