Project Manager

Holt Engineering; Hurn; On-site; GBP 57,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Pension 8%

Private healthcare

Health cash plan

27 days holiday

Cycle to Work Scheme

Professional development

Job summary

Holt Engineering in Christchurch, Dorset, is seeking a Technical Project Manager to lead complex engineering programmes from kick-off through design, build, integration and final closure. You’ll act as the main interface for customers, coordinating multidisciplinary teams across systems, hardware, software and production.

Role requires credibility with engineering teams, strong stakeholder management and the ability to drive projects through engineering lifecycle gates.

Qualifications

• Experience managing complex engineering, equipment or technology projects.
• Strong customer-facing experience as the main project interface.
• Able to lead multidisciplinary teams within a matrix organisation.
• Good technical understanding of complex electrical, electronic, software-controlled or electromechanical systems.
• Familiarity with engineering lifecycles including requirements, design reviews, manufacture, verification and acceptance.
• Experience managing scope, schedule, resources, quality, risk and cost.
• Commercial awareness including forecasting, cost-to-complete and margin protection.
• Confident handling change control, difficult conversations and project recovery activity.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Willingness to travel occasionally within the UK and internationally.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer and internal project kick-off meetings.
• Own project plans, schedules, milestones, resources and governance.
• Act as the principal interface with customers throughout delivery.
• Lead multidisciplinary engineering and operational project teams.
• Manage risks, opportunities, actions and recovery plans.
• Track revenue, expenditure, cost to complete, margin and resource demand.
• Control scope changes, variations and customer requests.
• Coordinate requirements, design reviews, manufacture, integration and acceptance activity.
• Challenge whether engineering solutions are mature enough to progress to the next stage.
• Support FAT, SAT, installation, commissioning and warranty activity.
• Work with Procurement and Engineering on external suppliers and subcontractors.
• Support bids and proposals with realistic schedules, risks, costs and delivery plans.
• Escalate technical, commercial or resource issues where required.
• Maintain accurate project information within ERP and financial systems.

Skills

Complex engineering projects

Customer interface

Matrix organisation leadership

Electrical/electromechanical systems

Lifecycle management

Budget and cost control

Change control

Stakeholder management

Travel UK/international

Communication skills

Job description

Project Manager

Christchurch, Dorset

Technical Project Manager salary: £57,000 – £65,250

Please note: only applicants with the full-time, permanent right to work in the UK will be considered.

Project Manager Overview

• Lead complex engineering projects from customer kick-off through design, build, acceptance and warranty


• Act as the principal customer interface across technical, commercial and delivery matters


• Lead multidisciplinary teams across systems, hardware, software, mechanical and production


• Manage scope, schedule, risk, cost, margin and engineering lifecycle reviews


• Work on bespoke test, automation and electromechanical equipment for regulated sectors

This Technical Project Manager role is with a specialist engineering business in Christchurch delivering complex, low-volume technical systems into regulated industries. The Technical Project Manager will own projects from internal handover and customer kick-off through design, manufacture, integration, FAT/SAT, commissioning and final closure.

This is not a project-administration role. The Technical Project Manager needs enough engineering understanding to work credibly with technical teams, challenge project maturity, manage customer expectations and ensure commercial, technical and delivery issues are addressed early.

The Project Manager role

As Technical Project Manager, you’ll lead multidisciplinary teams across engineering, production, procurement, quality and support functions while remaining the main day-to-day contact for the customer.

You’ll manage the full project baseline including scope, schedule, resources, risk, cost, margin and acceptance criteria, while ensuring projects move through the correct engineering lifecycle gates.

Day-to-day responsibilities of a Technical Project Manager

• Lead customer and internal project kick-off meetings


• Own project plans, schedules, milestones, resources and governance


• Act as the principal interface with customers throughout delivery


• Lead multidisciplinary engineering and operational project teams


• Manage risks, opportunities, actions and recovery plans


• Track revenue, expenditure, cost to complete, margin and resource demand


• Control scope changes, variations and customer requests


• Coordinate requirements, design reviews, manufacture, integration and acceptance activity


• Challenge whether engineering solutions are mature enough to progress to the next stage


• Support FAT, SAT, installation, commissioning and warranty activity


• Work with Procurement and Engineering on external suppliers and subcontractors


• Support bids and proposals with realistic schedules, risks, costs and delivery plans


• Escalate technical, commercial or resource issues where required


• Maintain accurate project information within ERP and financial systems

What they’re looking for - Technical Project Manager

• Experience managing complex engineering, equipment or technology projects


• Strong customer-facing experience as the main project interface


• Able to lead multidisciplinary teams within a matrix organisation


• Good technical understanding of complex electrical, electronic, software-controlled or electromechanical systems


• Familiarity with engineering lifecycles including requirements, design reviews, manufacture, verification and acceptance


• Experience managing scope, schedule, resources, quality, risk and cost


• Commercial awareness including forecasting, cost-to-complete and margin protection


• Confident handling change control, difficult conversations and project recovery activity


• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills


• Comfortable working regularly alongside engineering and delivery teams


• Willingness to travel occasionally within the UK and internationally

Desirable - Technical Project Manager

• Full UK driving licence


• Aerospace, defence, space, rail, energy or another regulated engineering background


• Automated test equipment, test-system integration or special-purpose equipment experience


• Systems engineering or requirements-management exposure


• FAT, SAT, installation or commissioning experience


• Fixed-price project delivery


• Contract variation, claims or change-management experience


• International or multi-company project delivery


• Formal project-management qualification


• Relevant Armed Forces technical leadership or engineering-management experience

What’s on offer - Technical Project Manager

Technical Project Manager salary: £57,000 – £65,000

Annual performance-related bonus, 8% employer pension contribution, family private healthcare and family health cash plan.

27 days holiday plus bank holidays, Cycle to Work Scheme and ongoing professional development.

A technically varied Technical Project Manager role with exposure to complex engineering programmes, international customers and increasing levels of project responsibility.