Hybrid Project Manager – Engineering & Aerospace Delivery

April Quest; Bude; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Hybrid and flexible working

Company pension

Life assurance

Company sick pay

Employee Assistance Programme

Excellent training and development

Job summary

April Quest is seeking an experienced Project Manager to join its North Devon team. You will lead a portfolio of complex engineering and product-development projects within a regulated environment, coordinating multidisciplinary teams and ensuring delivery on time, budget and quality.

You will manage the full lifecycle from requirements capture to verification and delivery, maintain stakeholder communications, support bids, and drive continuous improvement across projects and processes.

Qualifications

• Three to five years’ experience as a Project Manager within aerospace, engineering or a technology-led environment.
• Experience delivering multiple complex projects within an engineering environment.
• Experience managing projects throughout the full lifecycle, from requirements capture and planning through to verification, qualification and delivery.
• Previous experience in a customer-facing role, including gathering requirements, providing progress updates and managing expectations.
• Experience managing project schedules, budgets, resources, risks and issues.
• Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary engineering and operational teams.
• Strong communication, organisation and stakeholder-management skills.
• Commercially aware, proactive and comfortable managing changing priorities.
• PRINCE2 or PMP qualification is preferred. Candidates without a formal qualification will be considered if they can demonstrate successful delivery of multiple complex engineering projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering and product-development projects from inception through to delivery.
• Manage project schedules, budgets, resources, risks and issues.
• Develop and maintain resource forecasts across multiple projects.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams covering hardware, software, mechanical engineering, manufacturing and quality.
• Support requirements capture, design, implementation, verification and qualification activities.
• Produce and maintain project and product-development documentation.
• Communicate effectively with internal teams, customers, suppliers and other external stakeholders.
• Ensure projects comply with New Product Introduction processes and applicable regulatory and quality standards.
• Identify and implement improvements to project and product-development processes.
• Contribute to bids, proposals and new-business opportunities.
• Work alongside the Engineering Management Team to support wider business objectives and continuous improvement.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Organisational skills

Budget management

Risk management

Education

PRINCE2 or PMP certification

Job description

April Quest is seeking an experienced Project Manager to join its North Devon team. You will lead a portfolio of complex engineering and product-development projects within a regulated environment, coordinating multidisciplinary teams and ensuring delivery on time, budget and quality.

You will manage the full lifecycle from requirements capture to verification and delivery, maintain stakeholder communications, support bids, and drive continuous improvement across projects and processes.