Senior Project Manager

Northampton

£44,000 - £48,000 pa

Benefits: 25 Days Holiday, Company Pension, Company Healthcare, Flexi Time System, Benefits
Commutable From: Northampton, Wellingborough, Rushden, Kettering, Bedford, Daventry, Corby, Northamptonshire
Experience: Engine Technology, Project Management, Automotive

One of the Worlds Leading Suppliers of Automotive Components are currently looking for a Senior Project Manager to join their successful team in Northamptonshire.

The Senior Project Manager will coordinate all company and supplier activities required to achieve project targets and deliverables for Projects up to and including the medium sized Projects running within the engineering division. This includes timing, budgetary, technical and customer related tasks and responsibilities.

The Role

Define and negotiate project work scope, deliverables and global project timing, including milestones and gateways, with the customer.

- Liaise with functions to define project activities to achieve global project timing, including milestones and gateways.
- Provide understanding of customer processes that will be followed during the program, and plan project activities to suit.
- Agree project team members with function heads.
- Implement latest Project Management processes and tools.
- Define responsibilities and objectives of section leaders within the project team. Measure and feedback performance against these objectives.
- Agree responsibilities and objectives of other team members (with section leaders where applicable).
- Monitor the implementation of latest functional processes and procedures throughout the project.
- Co-ordinate activities between sections to achieve project deliverables and milestones to the agreed plan.
- Plan and reforecast as necessary, resource from functions to achieve project deliverables, milestones, earned value & margin.
- Accept bookings to project plans.
- Ensure customer requirements are met, if necessary where work scope change is not within agreed scope, raise PCR to secure additional funding from customer.
- Agree changes in project work scope with customer and Chief Engineer, Projects.
- Organise and facilitate Project Meetings and Concerns Meetings as latest PM processes.
- Participate in internal project review meetings as requested.
- Co-ordinate and attend customer Project Status meetings. Co-ordinate external project status reports.
- Lead internal Gateway reviews.
- Lead project close out meetings and reviews.
- Develop and inform relevant Sales Team on new and continuation business opportunities with the customer.

The Person

We are looking to hear from candidates with the following skills and experience:

- A relevant Engineering Degree i.e. Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing or Automotive.
- At least 8 years experience in the field of engine technology Aeronautical, Marine, Off Road, Two wheel of which a minimum of 4 years in the Automotive Industry.
- A proven track record of managing an automotive engineering project through to completion.
- Managing and leading teams of greater than 5 engineers
- A high technical level in one of the major Automotive Engineering disciplines: Design, Development, Calibration and a good understanding of the remaining disciplines.
- A detailed understanding of typical Automotive program Work Breakdown Structures, Task dependencies, Timing and Budgets.
- Knowledge of Quality Engineering processes and procedures: APQP, Product Specification, System Specification, FMEA, Design Verification Planning, Concerns System
- Experience of vehicle engineering and vehicle product launch requirements would be useful.
- An experienced user of MS software: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project.
- The ability to lead and motivate a team of engineers is essential.
- Strong negotiation skills are essential.
- Excellent communication skills is essential.
- Presentation skills in both a business development capacity and as a means of providing project status to the customer.
- The ability to influence the customer, senior management and team members is essential.
- Good facilitator of meetings is desirable.
- The ability to identify and control risks to an engineering program is desirable.
- Good time management & delegation skills are desirable.

M-Tec Recruitment are a leading supplier of Permanent, Interim and Project Management Recruitment Solutions to the Automotive and General Engineering sectors.

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Established in 2001, M-Tec Recruitment has developed a reputation as one of the industries leading suppliers of permanent and contract recruitment jobs into the automotive, aerospace, engineering, electronics, rail and manufacturing sectors for some of the markets leading organisations.