Project Manager

We are currently looking for a Project Manager to join our busy team in Bristol.

**Project Manager Duties**:

- Work within a business / programme environment, take full responsibility for **project (contract)**delivery and/or bid activity
- Managing customers and suppliers across multiple countries and time-zones
- Establish & maintain team organisation and communications plans
- Creation and maintenance of **project schedules** & expediting of tasks
- Use appropriate **planning techniques** to help identify project **resource requirements** and manage availability with functional managers
- Work with Supply Chain and Commercial teams to ensure contract **baselines**, plans and schedules are maintained in line with agreed **contract changes**:

- Develop & maintain monitoring & control of **project deliverables**:

- Efficiently deliver clearly focussed customer & company project financial and schedule **performance reporting**:

- Maintain project **risk & opportunity registers**(s), arranging regular reviews and communicating in monthly reporting cycle
- Support development of **project management capability** to support business & company growth (including managing own **personal development**)

**Project Manager Requirements**:

- Minimum of 3-5 years project management experience, responsible for contract values in excess of £3m, preferably within the defence sector.
- Planning contract delivery:

- Creating & maintaining resourced Project schedules (using Microsoft Project) and associated WBS/OBS/RAM
- Work package development & assignment
- Project management plans
- Resource plans
- Metric implementation
- Management of risks and opportunities, through generation, maintainenance and execution of risk and opportunity management plans
- Ensuring team members follow company and project plans and processes to achieve the required results
- Compliance with legal, company and project processes, including export-control regulations - ensuring all information and equipment complies with the required regulations and that the team follows mandated processes.
- Finance tracking, control & reporting:

- Accurate schedule and finance monitoring and reporting, including detailed financial spreadsheet reporting to reconcile planned with actual expenditure, monthly review of EAC, VAC, ETC, GM, labour and materials expenditure etc.
- Monitoring of sales and order targets
- Change control and Baseline management
- Identification and negotiation of contract variations and deviations
- Generation of estimates, cost models and proposals
- Price negotiation with suppliers and customers
- Embodiment of Change within Contract Baseline
- Subcontract management
- Working with supply chain to manage relationship & performance of suppliers and subcontractors
- Engineering knowledge and management
- Interfacing with engineering management and team
- Good understanding and awareness of the 'waterfall’ engineering lifecycle
- People Management
- Diplomatic management of customers and key suppliers at multiple levels - from engineering/commercial staff meetings to senior management reviews
- Experience working with international/cross-cultural teams is preferred
- Managing internal teams to ensure short-term and longer-term project/program targets are met
- Awareness of what motivates individuals
- Ability to ensure individuals deliver on their promises

**Project Manager Benefits**:

- Auto Enrolment Retirement Savings Plan (up to 7% employer contribution)
- Group Life Assurance, Private Medical Insurance and Income Protection
- Employee Assistance Programme
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and holiday buy/sell
- Discounts with travel, major retailers, family days out and much more
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Free mortgage advice
- Plus, a range of other flexible benefits