Details:
- Salary: £30 - 35 - Hour
- Location: Nottingham Nottinghamshire
- Date: 4 weeks ago
Description:
Project Manager
£30-£35 per hour (Inside IR35)
3 month contract with view to move permanent
Nottingham
Working as part of the contract engineering team on both technical and commercial aspects of projects on a wide range of products and systems. From receipt of order, the Project Manager becomes the point of contact for the customer, reviewing the job specification, designing the required solution, overseeing the project's build and test and liaising with the customer throughout.
Team structure & culture
Reporting to Contract Manager the team includes Project & Test Engineers, Documentation Control, Project Coordinators, CAD Team and administration support.
KEY RESULT AREAS:
Following a standard process, as defined by a professional project management organisation
Initiating the project, checking feasibility and work out budgets, teams, and resources
Providing cost-effective solutions to clients
Maintaining margin on projects
Meeting project deadlines
Liaising with Development department to meet any job-specific design requirements
Liaising with Production department regarding system build
Liaising with Site Services to brief commissioning engineers
Working on a number of projects at any given time, requiring good organisational and communication skills
Managing the project, which includes coordinating the project team to keep them on track and keeping the project on budget
Carrying out monitoring and control activities to track the progress of the project
Identifying and managing risks to ensure delivery is on time
Implementing necessary changes throughout the process
Reporting regularly to management and the client
Closing the project - this includes evaluating successes and challenges to enhance learning for your next project.
Planning and overseeing the execution of work
ESSENTIAL:
Proven experience in managing commercial projects in engineering environment
Commercial knowledge to review contract terms
Ability to liaise with clients, both in the UK and overseas
Ability to plan in accordance with the needs of your client, including setting goals and objectives, defining roles and producing schedules and timelines for tasks.
Ability to use Microsoft Project for project planning
Ability to work to cost limitations to ensure
Excellent organisation skills, to plan the use of people and resources to meet deadlines
Strong interpersonal skills, to motivate and lead your project team
Good communication and negotiation skills, to manage expectations
The ability to use your initiative and make decisions under pressure
Competent written communications to produce manuals, test schedules, quality procedures, etc.
Ability to leading and motivating project team from both internal and external stakeholder organisationsDESIRABLE:
Hands-on experience of electronics design & test
Experience of audio electronics equipment
Electronics engineering (minimum HNC level)