Senior Project Manager
- Employer
- VPss
- Location
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Salary
- £65,000 - £75,000 per annum
- Closing date
- 5 Mar 2021
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- Sector
- Consultancy, Engineering, IT
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Job Function
- Project Manager, Senior Project Manager
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We have a new opportunity for aSenior Project Manager to join a global leading technology manufacturer. The Senior Project Manager will have come from a technical background with proven experience of delivering electronic products from conception to volume production whilst managing risks, budgets, personnel and objectives.
Key responsibilities include:
- Working in partnership with Senior Technical Leads and Product Managers to deliver industry leading Electronic products into volume production
- Manage regular project meetings, ensuring accountability of team members and individuals in the wider business
- Applies advanced project management tools and techniques to achieve project objectives, meet schedule deadlines and budget targets
- Ensure approaches/techniques are used for building high performing teams, maintaining good team morale and a high level of operating efficiency
- Captures and manages project risks with appropriate mitigation’s
- Manage project procurement, with mitigation planning for supply chain risks
- Communicates to stakeholders, ensuring an appropriate escalation of issues
- Negotiates availability of project resources with Resource Managers and other Project Managers, ensuring smoothed and optimised resource utilisation
- Demonstrates leadership by promoting trust, interaction and shared commitment within teams
- Incorporates quality into the project delivery
Skills, Knowledge and Experience required:
- Must have experience working within production environments where they are designing electronic devices for mass / high-volume production.
- Must have worked within a similar role project managing multi-disciplined hardware engineering teams (e.g. Embedded, mechanical, Electronics, PCB, Quality ETC)
- Must be very organised and diligent with the ability to control the room when holding meetings
- Calm and controlled when setting expectations for the team
Other Nice to have non-essential skills include
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in an Engineering discipline
- Training in project management to a project manager level, with accredited certification through IPMA, APM, Prince 2 or IPM or equivalent
- Experience with NPI/NPD of complex electronic projects, with outsourcing to Far East and / or European Contract Manufacturer’s with a good understanding of lead times for project planning.
- Experience of improving production policies to aid in reducing waste, cost and time while improving quality.
Interested applicants should contact Ian Baldry of Venables Parsons Search & Selection (VPss) via email or on the compnay number - otherwise please apply via this advert
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