Senior Project Manager - Sustaining

Edwards Vacuum; Bristol; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Culture of trust and accountability

Lifelong learning and career growth

Comprehensive compensation and benefits

Health and well-being

Job summary

Edwards Vacuum is seeking a Project Manager - Sustaining to oversee complex NPI projects in Bristol. This role will manage daily operations, ensuring projects meet specifications, timelines, and budgets. Candidates should possess a strong engineering degree, project management qualifications, and at least 5 years of experience in product development. The position offers a hybrid working arrangement and focuses on communication and organizational skills for effective project management.

Qualifications

• 5 years involvement in product development in a high-tech environment.
• 3 years experience in a Project Management capacity.
• Strong understanding of delivering products on time and on budget.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of complex NPI projects.
• Create cross-functional project plans and oversee adherence to timelines.
• Monitor project plans and manage deviations with immediate intervention if needed.

Skills

Project management

Communication skills

Organizational awareness

Influencing and negotiating

Education

Good Engineering/Scientific degree

Project management qualification (Prince 2, APM)

Job description

Your role

As a Project Manager - Sustaining, your mission is to manage the day-to-day operational aspects of complex NPI projects ($5-10M+) to ensure that they are delivered according to agreed specifications, timescales and budgets and that company procedures are followed in the execution of these projects. You will report to the Programmes Manager.

You will

• Ensure the project meets its performance and timescale objectives as defined by the Master Specification.
• Create cross‑functional project plan encompassing all the tasks required to deliver the project in adherence to the product commercialisation process (PCP).
• Plan projects and agree timescale with the Programme Manager.
• Ensure all the required resource and skills are made available to deliver the project and its milestones and ensure adherence to agreed dates.
• Highlight resource and/or planning issues in advance to Programme Manager.
• Lead the Project team’s activities through a centrally visible plan, regularly reporting progress, dealing with exceptions, and escalating as appropriate.
• Ensure that the project plan is monitored and any deviance is mitigated by immediate intervention or is escalated to Programme Manager.

Qualifications

To succeed, you will need to have:

• A good Engineering/Scientific degree.
• Project management qualification would be desirable. Preferably Prince 2, APM certified or equivalent.
• 5 years involvement in the process of product development in a high technology environment, with 3 years’ experience in a Project Management capacity.
• A proven ability to manage complex projects – a strong understanding of delivering products on time, to specification and on budget.
• A proven ability to generate resource plans and drive schedule adherence whilst maintaining the flexibility required to react to rapidly changing customer and company needs.
• Must be a good communicator and have excellent fluency in spoken and written English.
• Strong communication skills, organisational awareness, and impact.
• Influencing, communication, presentation and negotiating skills, both internally and externally.
• Ability to make things happen at all levels by seeing the need to communicate, elevate and facilitate.

Benefits

• Culture of trust and accountability
• Lifelong learning and career growth
• Innovation powered by people
• Comprehensive compensation and benefits
• Health and well-being

Job location

This role offers a hybrid working arrangement, allowing you to split your time between working remotely and being on‑site at our office in Bristol, United Kingdom (GB).

About Edwards

Edwards is a leading developer and manufacturer of sophisticated vacuum products, exhaust management systems and related value‑added services. Edwards solutions are integral to manufacturing processes for semiconductors, flat panel displays, LEDs and solar cells. They are also used within an increasingly diverse range of industrial processes including power, glass and other coating applications; steel and other metallurgy; pharmaceutical and chemical; and for scientific instruments in a wide range of R&D applications. Edwards has over 4,000 employees worldwide engaged in the design, manufacture and support of high technology vacuum and exhaust management equipment. Edwards has state‑of‑the‑art manufacturing facilities in Europe, Asia and North America.