Technical Project Manager

Productive Machines; Rotherham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Contributory pension scheme

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

Productive Machines is driving advanced physics‑AI software to improve machining performance and decision-making on the shop floor. The Technical Project Manager will coordinate software, product, and customer initiatives in a fast‑moving start‑up environment to deliver measurable impact across multidisciplinary teams.

You will lead projects spanning pilots with customers, collaborative R&D with industrial and academic partners, and complex internal deployments.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience managing technical, software, or industrial projects.
• Experience coordinating internal and customer-facing projects.
• Eligible to work in the UK and commuting distance to Rotherham AMP Centre.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate internal software and product development projects across engineering and product teams.
• Manage customer-facing pilot projects, onboarding activities, software deployments, and technical integrations.
• Translate technical and operational requirements into structured project plans and actionable tasks.
• Improve project management processes, reporting, and coordination as the company scales.

Skills

Senior project management

Technical leadership

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

Job description

Productive Machines develops advanced industrial software that improves machining performance, productivity, and manufacturing decision-making in complex production environments.

Our physics‑AI technologies sit at the intersection of software, AI, engineering, and real‑world machining production, helping manufacturers unlock machining capacity, reduce cycle times, eliminate chatter vibration, and improve process stability across high‑value manufacturing operations.

We are a growing deep‑tech company working with industrial customers, machine tool partners, and manufacturing organisations where projects must deliver measurable impact on the shop floor.

As we scale, we are looking for a Technical Project Manager to help coordinate and deliver a mix of:

• customer‑facing industrial pilot projects
• collaborative R&D programmes involving industrial and academic partners
• complex internal software and product delivery programmes

This is a hands‑on, high‑visibility role suited to someone who enjoys operating in fast‑moving technical start‑up environments and helping bring structure, momentum, and delivery focus across multidisciplinary teams.

The Role

You will act as a central coordination point across software engineering, product development, customers, manufacturing partners, and commercial teams. The role combines:

• technical project delivery
• customer coordination
• operational organisation
• stakeholder management

within a scaling industrial software business.

This is not a purely administrative PM role.

Key Responsibilities

Project Delivery

• Coordinate internal software and product development projects across engineering and product teams.
• Manage customer‑facing pilot projects, onboarding activities, software deployments, and technical integrations.
• Support delivery of Innovate UK and other collaborative R&D projects involving external partners.
• Define and track project scope, timelines, milestones, risks, budgets, and dependencies.
• Ensure projects remain aligned to delivery priorities, defined budgets, and commercial objectives.

Customer & Stakeholder Coordination

• Act as a key interface between engineering, product, commercial teams, customers, and external partners.
• Run project meetings, planning sessions, delivery reviews, and progress updates.
• Ensure customer expectations are managed clearly and professionally.
• Support management reporting and project status visibility.

Manufacturing & Technical Environment

• Work closely with customers operating CNC machining and manufacturing environments.
• Develop an understanding of machining workflows, CAM software, production constraints, and industrial customer requirements.
• Help translate technical and operational requirements into structured project plans and actionable tasks.

Process & Operational Improvement

• Help improve project management processes, reporting, introduction of standards and tools, and delivery coordination as the company scales.
• Ensure documentation, actions, decisions, and lessons learned are captured effectively.
• Support prioritisation and coordination across multiple concurrent internal and external projects, including roadmap development.

Required Experience & Skills

• Proven senior‑level experience in managing technical, software, engineering, or industrial projects.
• Proven experience coordinating both internal and customer‑facing projects.
• Comfortable working with technical engineering teams and external customer technical and senior‑level stakeholders.
• Eligible to work in the UK.
• Live within commuting distance of the AMP Centre, Rotherham.

Highly Desirable

• Experience within manufacturing, machining, industrial automation, engineering software, or Industry 4.0 environments.
• Familiarity with CNC machining, CAM systems, or production operations.
• Experience working with industrial software or technical products.
• Experience supporting grant‑funded or collaborative R&D projects.
• Familiarity with Agile workflows and tools such as Jira, Confluence, or Bitbucket.
• Formal PM qualifications (PRINCE2, Agile, PMP, Scrum, etc.) beneficial but not essential.

What We Offer

• Options for the right candidate, dependent on experience.
• Opportunity to work at the forefront of AI‑driven industrial technology
• High‑impact role within a growing deep‑tech company
• Exposure to advanced manufacturing and cutting‑edge industrial software
• Collaborative engineering‑led culture with significant ownership and visibility
• Private medical insurance, life assurance, and contributory pension scheme
• Flexible working arrangements where appropriate