Project Manager Job in Wolverhampton, Midlands UK
Project Manager
Wolverhampton
***£25 - £35 per hour***
***Start ASAP***
Questions to be answered within the candidate profile:
1. What Project Management Experience do you have
2. Do you have experience within Engineering?
3. What Aerospace or relevent Industry experience do you have?
Role summary:
An exciting opportunity for a Project Manager has arisen within the High Lift Value Stream in Actuation Systems. The role requires experienced, high achieving individuals reporting to the High Lift Programme Manager to take responsibility for leading a team of people to achieve business and customer deliverables associated with the System Development, Qualification, Demonstration and Initial Production phases of the project.
Principal Accountabilities:
The job holder will support the Programme Management team to achieve the business and customer deliverables associated with the project and be accountable for;
• Leading a multi-disciplined group of people to achieve contracted and targeted project objectives On Time and In Full (OTIF)
• Creating, maintaining and effectively communicating project plans and resource profiles
• Creating and managing project cash flows, budgets, forecasts and earned value analyses
• Identifying and implementing cost reduction and other financial enhancement initiatives
• Change management coordination tracking to enable cost recovery from customer
• Supporting approval for, proposing and negotiating contract change amendments
• Supporting customer satisfaction surveys against agreed and structured success criteria
• Supporting Project Status Reviews to Customer and Senior Management
• Negotiating and acquiring the necessary resources to achieve project deliverables
• Ensuring compliance to the New Product Introduction (NPI) process and Customer Contract/Statement of work
• Ensure Key Project Indicators are tracked, maintained and reported on a regular basis
• Identifying and implementing continuous improvement ideas and methodology
Basic Qualifications:
The successful candidate will have a comprehensive range of skills or potential including:
- Good organisational and analytical ability including competence with general IT tools (ie MS Office)
- Knowledge of project management IT tools (MS Project) and earned value techniques would be an advantage
- Demonstrable track record of high performance standards used to deliver committed objectives
- Abundant leadership and communication skills
- Strong financial awareness
- Passionate desire to excel against demanding customer expectations
- Ability to think creatively and wisely apply your influential personality
- A passion to take ownership and deliver as both leader and member in a winning and supportive team environment
- Educated to graduate level
- Experience or enjoyment of working within a complex business situation.
- Willing to travel and to work flexible hours to support communication across different time zones
- An engineering background preferably with experience in development of aircraft actuation systems.