NPD Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager - New Product Development

NPD Project Manager - Engineering / Manufacturing

Hours – Monday – Friday – Early Finish Friday and WFH options

Benefits – Pension (up to 7.5%), Bonus, Professional Development

Fantastic opportunity for a motivated Engineering Project Manager with experience of managing the New Product Development Projects (NPD / NPI) to support a number of concurrent projects of varying sizes and complexity as part of a team of bright, highly motivated multi-disciplined engineers.

The company produces a range of products across multiple industry sectors offering technical diversity and interest.

It’s an exciting period of development within the business and as a result the company have significant projects and need a talented Project Manager to enable them to realise and deliver these projects and ensure key budget, milestone and performance targets are met. 

As Project Manager you will have responsibility for working with multi-disciplined teams across manufacturing, engineering / R&D through to supply chain and quality to ensure milestones are met at each key gate / stage. There is a substantial element of prototyping and proof-of-concept or experiments that require an inquisitive and agile approach focused on the effective use of resources.

With responsibility from concept to delivery, you will be accountable for the technical performance of projects spanning Planning and Control, coordination of multi-disciplined teams, process and efficiency improvements through to safety and reliability and procedural adherence.  An engineering background is ideal as you will be supporting a highly skilled team of hardware, software, mechanical and electronic engineers.

The position will suit either a talented degree qualified Engineer (in either an electronic/ mechatronic / electrical or related engineering discipline) or a with commensurate industry experience and:

•  Proven experience of managing complex R&D / NPD (New Product Development) projects within an engineering environment:
• First class influencing and presentation skills are required as this is a high visibility role
• Technical background in engineering / R&D
• A background of project managing within the engineering sector essential
• Agile project methodology expertise
• Microsoft Project / MS Project /Prince 2, APMP or similar project management expertise

Please contact Alison Kemp for further details / to discuss your applications or apply via the link

Likely to suit individuals with a background as (but not limited to): Project Manager, New Product Development Project Manager, NPD Project Manager - Engineering / Manufacturing, Programme Manager, Project Leader, Engineering Project Manager, NPD project lead or similar