Development Programme Manager Single Aisle

Morson Group; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 51,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

Morson Group is recruiting a Development Programme Manager in the UK to lead large modification programmes for existing aircraft products. The role requires strong stakeholder management, leadership, and governance experience in a highly regulated environment such as aerospace or automotive.

Hybrid onsite arrangement with substantial time spent on site at Filton. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering on time, within scope and budget, while ensuring quality and regulatory

Qualifications

• Requires degree level.
• Experience leading programs or projects in aerospace or similarly regulated environments.
• Ability to establish and sustain stakeholder networks across organisations.
• Strong leadership and communication skills to engage multifunctional teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage a large programme to deliver modifications to existing products.
• Work to time, scope, cost and quality objectives to ensure product excellence and customer satisfaction.
• Maintain compliance with internal governance and processes.
• Lead a project team through all lifecycle stages with KPI setup and corrective actions as needed.
• Perform active risk and opportunity management.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project governance

Risk management

Education

Degree level

Job description

Programme Manager

£37.38 - £50 per hour

Our client, one of the largest aerospace manufacturers in Europe, is recruiting for a Development Programme Manager to be accountable for the development and delivery of major modifications to existing aircraft. They are looking for experienced Project Manager that have led a project which has focused on the modification or development of a manufacturing engineering product. Stakeholder management will be key, as well as prior experience in similar highly regulated environment such as aerospace or automotive.

Based in Filton, this is a hybrid remote position that will require a minimum of 3 days per week onsite. It is a 12 month contract paying a rate of £37.38 per hour PAYE or £50 per hour Umbrella Inside IR35.

Responsibilities

• Manage a large Program to deliver modifications to existing products.
• Working to key project objectives (time, scope, cost, quality) to deliver product excellence and customer satisfaction.
• Maintain compliance with internal business governance and process.
• Drive a project team all along the project phases, including engagement with multifunctional teams (matrix organizations), KPI set up/monitoring and corrective actions as required.
• Active risk and opportunity management.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience of Program or Project leadership from previous roles, preferably in the aerospace industry.
• An ability to establish and sustain stakeholder networks including identification of relevant organisations and decision makers.
• Appropriately engage with stakeholders to secure support and provide topical updates during the project lifecycle.
• Excellent people skills, and demonstrate and project the leadership model in their engagement.
• Strong knowledge of tools and techniques to identify, manage the project through a full lifecycle, and deliver progress updates to key stakeholders.
• Educated to degree level.

Recognising the RESTRICTED nature of the work, suitable candidates will be BPSS cleared or eligible for this level of clearance before starting on site