Project Manager

GBR Recruitment Limited; Grimsby; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Travel to client sites

Competitive salary

Job summary

GBR Recruitment Ltd is partnering with a Lincolnshire-based commercial defence business to appoint an experienced Project Manager. The role is hybrid: 3-4 days in the office, 1-2 days from home, with occasional office days to meet business needs and client-site travel for meetings.

You will deliver complex high software and hardware capital projects for external clients, coordinating multi-disciplinary teams and ensuring OTIF delivery within budget.

Qualifications

• End to end project management for high value (£Ms) programs.
• Experience in defence/government or software/hardware contracts.
• Hybrid role and travel to client sites as needed.

Responsibilities

• End to end project management, from initial planning through execution and finalisation.
• Deliver projects OTIF within deadlines and budget.
• Define project scope, goals and deliverables.
• Create and maintain project plans, schedules and resources.
• Coordinate with internal and external cross-functional teams.
• Identify, manage and remedy project risks and issues.
• Monitor progress and communicate updates to stakeholders.
• Chair meetings and track progress to resolve issues.
• Maintain engineering documentation and ensure compliance with standards.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder liaison

Risk management

AgilePM framework

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

GBR Recruitment Ltd are working exclusively with a highly successful Lincolnshire based commercial defence business, leading the hiring for an experienced Project Manager to deliver complex high software & hardware capital projects.

A hybrid role, working 3-4 days from the office & 1-2 days from home. Must be happy to work in the office 5 days when needed to meet business needs, must also be happy to travel to clients sites for meetings & presentations too.

As the PM, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the clients commercial defence technology projects are delivered both effectively & efficiently.

You will have significant high value project delivery experience (£M’s), ideally projects from within commercial defence contracts, government contracts or software / hardware commercial contracts within large scale corporate clients (national / global).

Responsibilities:

• End to end project management, from the initial project planning stages through to the execution / finalisation of them.
• Delivering projects OTIF meeting the set deadlines & within the set budget.
• Define project scope, set the project goals & the deliverables.
• Create, maintain & develop project plans inc. project schedules & resources.
• Coordinate with internal & external cross-functional teams
• Successfully identify, manage & remedy any project risks & project issues.
• Monitor project progress, communicating project updates to key stakeholders.
• Chair & take part in project meetings to track progress & resolve any issues.
• Responsible for maintaining engineering documentation drawings & technical records, ensuring that all engineering activities comply with required standards.

Attributes:

• Strong project management experience (for external clients), from within commercial defence contracts, government contracts or software / hardware commercial contracts within large scale corporate clients (multiple £M’s)
• Strong in project management methodologies & project delivery processes
• Strong in using project management software.
• Excellent professional communication skills & the ability to liaise with stakeholders at all levels (SMT up to board level executives).
• Ability to prioritise project tasks & successfully deliver projects OTIF.
• AgilePM project management framework certification desirable.
• APM PMQ qualification desired.

A great opportunity to work within an ultra modern company that is going from strength to strength & growing year on year

Interviews are to take place immediately, with the role starting in the first week of October (depending on the successful applicants notice period).