Project Manager

**KEY TASKS** **Contractual Programme/Project Execution:** * Manage assigned projects from initiation through closeout. * Ensure compliance with contractual, legal, financial and regulatory requirements. * Monitor scope, schedules, budgets, quality and deliverables. * Coordinate change requests and agreements with customers, suppliers and subcontractors. * Maintain project records and ensure adherence to company processes. **Planning and Strategy:** * Develop project plans, schedules, budgets and resource requirements. * Identify, assess and manage project risks, issues and opportunities. * Conduct feasibility assessments, cost estimates and resource planning. * Implement corrective actions and contingency plans where required. **Reporting and Communication:** * Maintain clear communication with customers and internal stakeholders. * Prepare accurate project reports, forecasts, KPIs and progress updates. * Escalate significant risks, delays and decisions to the Head of Project Management. * Facilitate project meetings and track actions to completion. **Team coordination:** * Coordinate multidisciplinary project teams without direct line\-management responsibility. * Clarify responsibilities, priorities and deliverables. * Promote collaboration and alignment across engineering, operations, quality and commercial functions. * Support team members in resolving project\-related constraints. **Technical Collaboration:** * Work closely with systems engineers and technical teams to align project requirements with customer and business objectives. * Facilitate technical discussions and ensure decisions are documented. * Support compliance with quality, cybersecurity, industry and regulatory requirements. **General Responsibilities:** * Take accountability for assigned project deliverables and outcomes. * Apply and support continuous improvement of project\-management processes. * Engage internal and external stakeholders to support successful delivery. * Comply with company policies, health and safety requirements, and industry best practices. **QUALIFICATIONS:** * Bachelor’s degree in engineering—Electronic, Mechatronic, Mechanical or Software—or an equivalent qualification. * Project\-management certification such as PMP or PRINCE2 is advantageous. **REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:** * At least five years’ project\-management experience. * Experience delivering complex, high\-technology, multi\-stakeholder projects. * Working knowledge of PMBOK, Agile, PRINCE2 or comparable methodologies. * Experience in aerospace or defence product\-development projects is strongly preferred. * Experience coordinating projects with significant technical content. **Additional knowledge areas that would strengthen the application:** * Knowledge of satellite subsystems and the space environment **COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:** * Self\-motivated, responsible and delivery focused. * Strong planning, organisation and prioritisation skills. * Effective written and verbal communication. * Customer and stakeholder focused. * Able to influence others without formal authority. * Comfortable managing competing priorities in a fast\-moving environment. * Collaborative, resourceful and solutions oriented. Work Location: In person