Space Systems Project Manager — Hands-On Leader (Hybrid)

Alexander Associates Limited; Southmoor; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Workplace pension

Learning & development allowance

Job summary

Alexander Associates Limited is seeking an experienced Project Manager or Senior Project Manager to lead complex space hardware programmes from planning through delivery. You will coordinate multidisciplinary teams and manage customers, suppliers and partners across the full development lifecycle, with a hands-on approach and close engineering collaboration.

Ideally you have 5+ years in project leadership within aerospace, space hardware or high-reliability engineering, and have managed budgets,

Qualifications

• Approximately 5+ years' experience in project or programme management within a complex engineering environment.
• Experience delivering complex technology or hardware development programmes.
• Strong stakeholder, customer and supplier management skills.
• Hands-on, practical approach to project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Leading multidisciplinary project teams, providing clear direction across engineering, commercial and operational stakeholders.
• Defining and maintaining project objectives, scope, deliverables and schedules.
• Managing projects against cost, schedule and quality requirements.
• Tracking progress against milestones and KPIs, adapting plans to maintain delivery.
• Managing budgets, resources, labour and expenditure.
• Identifying and mitigating project risks and issues.
• Coordinating major project milestones such as SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR and FRR.

Job description

Alexander Associates Limited is seeking an experienced Project Manager or Senior Project Manager to lead complex space hardware programmes from planning through delivery. You will coordinate multidisciplinary teams and manage customers, suppliers and partners across the full development lifecycle, with a hands-on approach and close engineering collaboration.

Ideally you have 5+ years in project leadership within aerospace, space hardware or high-reliability engineering, and have managed budgets,