Growing Aerospace Company Senior Project Management Role About Our Client Our client is a growing aerospace engineering and manufacturing services provider. They have teams of designers, experts, work package leaders, and 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 performance. 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.
Job Description Profitably manage assembly line and tooling projects through the on-site engineering teams and the support staff:
* Take 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 plans.
* Be responsible for the schedule by managing it with the teams and 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 leaders, technical leaders, designers, PMO, and site coordinators.
* Be the customer focal point to manage customer satisfaction, interfaces, communications, and contractual deliverables. Follow them with the company metrics.
* Be the contract manager of the project by checking delivery scope, schedules, and quality deliverables versus the contract and specifications. Ensure full capture of up-scopes by effectively documenting and negotiating with the customer.
* Organize project management activities with the team: risk analysis, input data list, deliverable list, quality documentation, and site work organizations.
* Check team competencies versus project needs and propose training and team improvements.
* Listen to new local business opportunities.
* Contribute to developing the local supply chain (supplier assessments, responsibility/interface to suppliers…).
The Successful Applicant * Proven track record and experience, with a broad background in areas of project management, engineering/tooling, preferably aeronautical assembly lines or equivalent such as automotive, rail, defense, 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 them to a 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.
What's on Offer £70,000 to £90,000 plus package.
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