About the job

Description

Role: Project Manager

Type: Permanent, Full-Time

Salary: 55K (DOE)

Location: Bolton

I’m currently recruiting for a Word-Leading team in their industry, looking for a new team member as a Project Manager. This company provide unique solutions to a range of clients in marketing and advertisement, involving the full lifecycle from manufacturing to supporting remote device management.

This role will lie withing the New Product Introduction team, supporting cross-functional leadership across engineering management.

This role is a great opportunity to advance your career with a company that prides itself on growth and tenure.

Core responsibilities:

Manage the full project life cycle for product development, including project recovery, New Product Introduction (NPI), New Product Development (NPD), and Engineering Change Requests (ECR).

Interpret and communicate key deliverables to the project team, ensuring alignment with project goals and objectives.

Work within the company’s Project Framework to guide and manage product development processes.

Ensure adherence to project processes, ensuring the correct authorization is applied at each stage of the project.

Act as the project authority, taking charge of driving the project’s delivery, resolving issues, and ensuring progress is on track.

Ensure project outcomes meet relevant KPIs or other specified requirements, such as cost, time, and quality.

Coordinate with stakeholders, ensuring their needs and expectations are incorporated into the project planning and execution.

Identify and mitigate risks, escalating issues to senior management when necessary to maintain project continuity.

Support the continuous improvement of company Project Management Framework, contributing to ongoing process development and optimization.

You will have:

• +5 years full time Project Management experience.
• +10 working within Engineering and Manufacturing environment.
• Experience with waterfall AND agile project management methodologies.
• Inhouse development, engineering and manufacturing of product that include Mechanical, Electrical and Software parts.
• Responsibility for full project lifecycle from concept to market delivery and support.
• Professional project management qualifications: e.g. Prince2 practitioner, APM PMQ, PMP, etc..
• Equivalent of ILM Level 3.
• Budget definition and control.
• Leader of cross functional core teams.
• Engineering (HW, SW, Electrical Mechanical, Production, Procurement, MRP Coordinator, Project Engineer, Quality).
• MS Project, Office 365, SharePoint, Visio, Jira, Azure DevOps.

To apply for this role, you must be currently living in the Manchester area, or be within commutable distance from Bolton. You must have relevant experience in engineering, either professionally or in an educational setting.

This is a great opportunity to join a strong, skilled and capable team, with an organisation that fosters your skills with active responsibilities and a fast-moving environment.

Apply now if this fits your skillset!