Project Manager - Defence

Project Manager  - Defence

A Project Manager is needed for an established privately owned UK supplier of engineering solutions for the defence sector. They specialise in the design, manufacture and support of control systems and power systems for defence platforms within the safety critical and harsh environment domain - particularly around marine applications.

The Project Manager will lead a portfolio of complex engineering projects ranging from low value projects lasting a few weeks, to multimillion pound lasting several years. The Project Manager will be professionally qualified through experience, ideally from an engineering background and where possible hold a degree in an engineering discipline.

The Project Manager will play a crucial role in supporting accurate project delivery and will be the driving force behind each project, providing direction and clarity of purpose to the project team, managing tasks and milestone delivery, and driving progress and the project pace.

Key Duties

Owning the delivery of a portfolio of projects through full life cycle by applying proactive project management.
Planning, agreeing, and implementing a project delivery strategy, creating detailed plans to manage resources and tasks.
Ensure outcomes are compliant, delivered on schedule, on budget and to the required quality standards.
Being the primary point of contact for all stakeholders, internal and external.
Ensuring all team members are motivated, and project momentum is maintained.
Managing projects in line with policies, codes of practice and standards to ensure customer requirements are fully met.
Ensure that key functions are in place including scopes of work, processes, delivery, reporting, and reviews.
Create and maintain project management documentation including project plans, and Gantt charts, etc.
Maintain the project scope, identifying changes to requirements & reporting to commercial team as appropriate.
Monitoring project progress, audit activity and regularly update project management software.
Provide all stakeholders with regular updates on progress, risks, budgets, and decisions.
Produce weekly and monthly management reports as required.
Provide the board of directors with accurate monthly project update reports for your portfolio.
Design/manage work packages to ensure project deliverables are submitted to schedule & required standards.
Key Skills/Experience Required

Experience in a similar project management role, delivering complex, multi-stakeholder projects in engineering.
Familiarity with proven project methodologies but also able to be flexible and to use common sense.
Significant practical experience and preferably experience of working in the defence sector.
Ideally experience of managing defence sector customer projects with understanding of business systems.
Honours degree or HNC/HND/Project Management qualification in engineering & experience as project manager.
Must have good understanding of engineering principles, engineering practices, and related issues.
Able to prioritise tasks, identified required actions and make decisions that balance commercial priorities, technical constraints, and customer needs.
Ability to think laterally, solve problems, develop creative solutions, and identify root causes to blockers.
Able to promote collaboration – work closely with technical, operational, and commercial teams.
Able to remain focused and effective under pressure, to multi-task and deliver work accurately and to schedule.
Able to build lasting relationships and negotiate best outcomes with stakeholders at every level.
Excellent stakeholder manager, able to communicate and influence up to Director level.
Continuously improve to refine how to work, share best practice, and raise the bar for project excellence.
Expert user of Microsoft Office Suite.
Experienced using Teamwork Project Management would be a bonus.
**Candidates must be British Nationals as full UK Security Clearance (SC) may be required, and this is due to the nature of the Defence products involved**

Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Recruitment are those of an Employment Agency.

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