Project Manager

Project Manager role based in Deeside. Working for a growing aerospace industrial services provider

Client Details

Our client iis a growing aerospace engineering and manufacturing services provider. They have teams of designers, experts, work package leaders & project managers who provide turnkey manufacturing, assembly and maintenance solutions to the industry. They help customers find optimized solutions to their industrial needs, minimize their capex and recurring costs while ensuring technical feasibility and performances. They enable their customers to use their production or maintenance tools with the highest level of safety, quality, and availability by supplying fast and tailored solutions.

Description

Profitably manage assembly line and tooling projects through the on-site engineering teams and the support staff:

• Take the full leadership of the project definition: Structure and manage the PBS, WBS and industrial plan of the project in line with a clarified scope of work; Organize the deliverables of the project and secure the expected performances by making anticipated verification and validation plan
  
  
• Be responsible of the schedule by managing it with the teams and by organizing the project milestones
  
  
• Full project profitability responsibility: Make and update budgets to secure and grow the margin; Follow customer invoices and supplier spending
  
  
• Define, motivate and manage project teams consisting of work package leader, technical leader, designer, PMO, site coordinator
  
  
• Be the customer focal point to manage the customer satisfaction, the interfaces, the communications and the contractual deliverables. Follow them with the company metrics.
  
  
• Be the contract manager of the project by checking delivery scope, schedules, quality deliverables versus the contract and the specifications. Ensure full capture of up-scopes by effectively documenting and negotiating with customer
  
  
• Organize project management activities with the team: risk analysis, input data list, deliverable list, quality documentations, site work organizations
  
  
• Check team competencies versus project needs and propose trainings and team improvements
  
  
• Listen to new local business opportunities
  
  
• Contribute develop local supply chain (supplier assessments, responsibility/ interface to suppliers…)
  
  Profile
  
  
• Proven track record and experience, with broad background in areas of project management, engineering / tooling, preferably aeronautical assembly lines or equivalent such as automotive, rail, defence, equipment assembly or vehicle build - all backgrounds of equal interest
  
  
• Proven experience managing projects / programs in a high change design & build environment with significant scope of growth. Experience managing projects with poor scope definition and bringing to satisfactory conclusion is a plus.
  
  
• Demonstrated experience in improving Project Management processes, and in developing supporting business processes where they were absent.
  
  
• Strong technical understanding of aerospace product development and production requirements definition, or other sectors as highlighted above
  
  
• Master's Degree in either Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering or Business Management, or equivalent
  
  
• Project Management Certification or equivalent
  
  Job Offer
  
  £70,000 to £90,000 plus package