Project Manager

Role overview

Workplace and schedule

• The role is based in Cambridge and offers hybrid working.
• The advertised working week is 37.5 hours.

Key responsibilities

• Manage engineering projects through the full product lifecycle, including KO, PDR, CDR, MRR, and TRR stages.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, and milestones.
• Deliver projects to agreed scope, budget, quality standards, and timescales.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams across engineering, manufacturing, procurement, and quality.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate project risks and issues.
• Produce regular project reports, dashboards, and performance metrics.
• Support customer meetings, programme reviews, and technical discussions.
• Assist with project budgeting, forecasting, and financial tracking.
• Build relationships with customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.
• Ensure effective communication across project teams.

Candidate profile

• Practical experience delivering complex engineering or manufacturing projects involving physical hardware.
• Experience delivering hardware products into regulated industries such as aerospace, defence, automotive, or space.
• Strong customer-facing experience, including leading meetings, reviews, and project reporting.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional engineering, operations, manufacturing, quality, procurement, and supply chain teams.
• Excellent planning, organization, and communication skills.
• Knowledge of recognized project management methodologies.
• Experience using project management software such as Microsoft Project, Jira, or similar.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities.

Desirable qualifications

• Degree in Engineering, Science, or a related discipline.
• Background in manufacturing engineering or close work with NPI or production teams.
• APMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project management qualification.
• Experience in space, defence, satellite communications, or electronics sectors.
• Appreciation of RF, microwave, or electronic technologies.

Benefits

• 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays, with the option to buy up to five additional days.
• Contributory pension scheme with up to 8% company contribution.
• Life assurance, income protection insurance, SAYE share scheme, electric vehicle scheme, and Cycle to Work scheme.
• Volunteering day and learning and development opportunities.
• Some benefits become available after successful completion of the probationary period.

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