Objectives of this role
- Strategise, implement, and maintain program initiatives that adhere to organizational objectives
- Develop program assessment protocols for evaluation and improvement
- Maintain organisational standards of satisfaction, quality, and performance
- Oversee multiple project teams, ensuring program goals are reached
- Manage budget and funding channels for maximum productivity
Job Duties:
- Create the project identification and planning documentation for the various work streams
- Receive proposed work scope and deliverables and prepare consequent proposals for timing plan and budget (external spend and hours)
- Agree the tasks required to complete each deliverable and what material will be produced to support each deliverable
- Challenge and balance inputs to create optimised proposal for project plan and budget
- Communicate initiation of the project and kick-off all required project activities in project team
- Record relevant information on appropriate project control documentation
- Update key information (work scope, deliverables, timing plan and budget) if necessary, based on agreement reached with customer
- Control and communicate status of deliverables and related tasks, project timings versus plan, project expenditure (external spend and hours) versus budget, and balance resources within the overall project limits where possible
- Communicate percentage completeness of 'in-progress' tasks and deliverables versus targets, each measure to be summarised by deliverables and by whole project. Quality assess projects where they run across quarters
- Review any requests for change to project scope and determine, with support from the project team, the consequent changes to project
- Record agreed changes to project scope on appropriate project control documentation
- Escalate issues to management where a resolution cannot be found within the project
- Provide feedback to customer and project team of agreed changes
- Run and chair project meetings as necessary for the smooth operation of the project
- Ensure that appropriate evidence of materials provided is recorded on the appropriate project control documentation
Requirements:
- Experience within manufacturing or engineering
- Three or more years of experience in an upper-management role, preferably in program management
- Relevant experience leading cross-functional programmes or projects using project-management methodologies
- Relevant experience in using data or anecdotal evidence to influence business decisions
- Relevant experience leading complex projects with a wide range of stakeholders, including your peers and leadership
- Experience working with the MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook), CAD and PLM
Please Note:
- Salary banding is dependant on experience and subject to interview.
- There is NO option for hybrid/remote working for this role