Technical Project Manager

The role

You will lead assigned engineering projects from internal handover and customer kick-off through design manufacture integration acceptance commissioning and warranty closure. As the principal day-to-day customer interface you will coordinate multidisciplinary teams and manage technical commercial and delivery matters. This is a technically engaged project leadership role requiring you to assess solution maturity challenge plans and ensure appropriate lifecycle reviews. Regular work alongside delivery teams is required; occasional UK and international travel including overnight stays is expected.

Key responsibilities

Manage customer and stakeholder relationships project communications governance kick-off meetings progress reviews and design reviews. Record decisions and actions address difficult issues constructively and maintain customer confidence while protecting the companys contractual position.

Lead multidisciplinary teams across systems hardware software mechanical production procurement quality and support. Coordinate resources in a matrix organisation resolve competing priorities identify capacity gaps and manage suppliers or subcontractors where required.

Lead handover from Sales and the bid team agree scope deliverables responsibilities assumptions dependencies and acceptance criteria and maintain the project management plan work breakdown structure integrated schedule resource plan risk register reporting and quality/configuration arrangements.

Control delivery against the approved technical baseline schedule and budget. Maintain accurate forecasts for revenue expenditure gross margin cost to complete cash work in progress and resource demand. Coordinate purchasing and support contractual and invoicing milestones.

Manage technical lifecycle gates from requirements and concept reviews through preliminary and critical design manufacturing readiness integration and test readiness verification factory acceptance site acceptance commissioning warranty and closure. Work with the Technical Lead and Systems Engineer to control requirements interfaces changes and acceptance evidence.

Understand and manage contract scope exclusions deliverables milestones and acceptance provisions. Record changes assess cost and schedule implications prevent informal scope growth support variations and claims protect forecast margin and document customer-caused delays or unmet dependencies.

Identify risks and opportunities early implement recovery actions escalate issues appropriately and ensure technical decisions deviations concessions and design changes are recorded and approved.

Contribute to opportunity qualification Go/No-Go and bid reviews. Help develop executable proposals realistic schedules resource plans cost estimates payment profiles assumptions exclusions and contingency recommendations.

Coordinate intercompany and international delivery clarifying workshare interfaces responsibilities deliverables dependencies and consolidated progress cost revenue margin and risk.

Reporting

The role reports to the Regional Operations Manager and works closely with Engineering Sales Finance Procurement Quality and the wider project-management community.

Qualifications :

Essential skills and experience

Experience managing complex engineering technology or equipment-delivery projects and leading multidisciplinary teams in a matrix organisation.

Strong customer-facing people-leadership coordination and stakeholder-management skills including experience acting as the principal interface with demanding customers.

Sufficient technical understanding to work credibly with engineers on complex test control automation or equipment-development projects.

Understanding of the bespoke systems engineering lifecycle including requirements design reviews manufacture integration verification validation and acceptance.

Experience controlling scope schedule resources risk quality and cost; commercial awareness including forecasting cost-to-complete gross-margin protection and change control.

Confidence to challenge constructively make decisions and escalate issues. Clear written and verbal communication and the ability to present complex information to technical and non-technical audiences.

Strong organisation and attention to detail ability to build trust across teams and cultures and flexibility to work alongside engineering teams at required locations.

Willingness to travel in the UK and internationally; full UK-valid driving licence and ability to meet company vehicle-insurance requirements. Right to work in the UK.

Desirable experience

Aerospace defence space rail energy or another regulated sector; automated or special-to-type test equipment; electronic electrical software-controlled or electromechanical systems; low-volume high-complexity equipment.

Defence procurement or contracting requirements management systems engineering formal lifecycle reviews factory/site acceptance testing and customer commissioning.

International or multi-entity projects fixed-price delivery variations or claims management and recovery of delayed technically challenged or loss-making projects.

Recognised project-management qualification or equivalent structured training. Relevant Armed Forces experience in technical leadership engineering management logistics equipment support training procurement or operational delivery is welcomed.

Additional Information :

We offer:

• A collaborative and supportive team with true international reach
• An attractive salary package with benefits such as generous pension scheme (4% employee / 8% employer full family health care plan family health cash plan 27 days holiday bank holidays Life assurance & income protection insurance
• Opportunities for continuous learning and professional growth
• Be part of a company that puts ESG at the heart of its mission for people planet and performance.

Security requirements

Due to the nature of our aerospace and defence work applicants must be eligible to obtain and maintain the level of UK national security clearance required for the role.

Some projects may also be subject to additional nationality residency or export-control restrictions. Any such restrictions will be considered as part of the recruitment process and will depend upon the programmes to which the successful candidate is assigned.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time