Project Manager

Project Managers

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Aerospace & Marine Engineering | Bristol, Derby or Glasgow | Hybrid Working

Ready to take the next step in your project management career?

Lead complex aerospace and marine engineering projects that make a real-world impact.

Belcan is seeking Project Managers at varying levels of experience to join our Aerospace and Marine divisions. Based in Bristol, Derby or Glasgow with hybrid working, you'll play a key role in delivering technically challenging projects for leading defence and engineering programmes.

The project management office is a collaborative team where each Project Manager is responsible for delivering a group of projects, predominantly within the Aerospace and Marine sectors.

Our Project Managers proactively lead projects, ensuring credible, resourced plans with approved budget to deliver. We all contribute to the continuous improvement of quality standards and processes.

The successful Project Manager will be involved in the bidding, planning, cost control and execution of various work packages. As an experienced Project Manager, you will lead all aspects of project delivery to budget, cost, and quality, and will control the monitoring and reporting of all project KPIs both internally and externally. You will liaise with a multi-disciplined engineering team, to ensure successful delivery of all projects. Management of multiple packages and/or multiple customers can be expected.

The successful candidate will have proven experience working as an engineering Project Manager within a complex stakeholder environment, where they have set up project frameworks, defined detailed project Work Breakdown Structures and ensured alignment with project requirements with controlled costs. You must also have experience of multiple concurrent projects with rapid delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading, establishing, and project managing a variety of engineering projects.
• Internal and external reporting including provision of quantitative and qualitative information at both project and portfolio management level.
• Scheduling projects and consolidating these in portfolios, including work breakdown structures and incorporating time, cost, quality, and resource analysis.
• Managing risks and opportunities.
• Change management within the project/portfolio scope.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management.
• Variance analysis and tracking of KPI’s, earned value and quantitative risk analysis.
• Planning control including baseline schedule management, change control, risk management and earned value management.
• Continuous review of the processes and tools to identify and implement improvements.
• Supporting portfolio/PMO by ensuring application of PM processes, methods, and tools.

Experience

• Previous experience in an engineering environment
• Previous experience of Project management software such as MS Project or Primavera P6
• Previous experience working with Engineering teams, internal stakeholders and end clients
• Must be numerate and have an eye for detail.
• Due to Defence engineering projects involved must be eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance.

Why join Belcan?

Join a team supporting a flagship defence programme, working on technically challenging engineering projects that contribute directly to the safety, performance and availability of a world-leading combat aircraft.

What is in it for you?

You will join a collaborative company that puts people at the heart of everything we do. As well as career development and a friendly and collaborative team, you will benefit from:

• Company Pension scheme
• Generous holiday allowance
• Private Medical Insurance
• Car scheme
• Hybrid and flexible working policies.

…and much more.

Apply now and take your engineering career to new heights with Belcan.

About Us

Belcan, a Cognizant company, is a global force in technical services and engineering consultancy. Our legacy is built on delivering high-quality outputs and our unwavering commitment to developing the next generation of technical consultants and specialist engineers. xwzovoh Our expertise is vast, spanning across various engineering industries including aerospace, defence, marine, nuclear, automotive, and cyber security.