Project Manager (Customer Services) - Cheltenham - £40k - 50k per year (889150)

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Project Manager (Customer Services)
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
£40k - 50k per year

Our client is a principal supplier to the aerospace and defence sector for both Air and Land Systems.

A role has arisen within the Customer Services business unit for a Project Manager to manage resource and activities for a portfolio of allocated projects. This will involve defining, planning and managing projects in accordance with best-practice principles through all stages of the engineering development life cycle. Additionally the role will be involved in the management of long term support contracts or in-service support requests.

The main duties are:
- Management of all allocated projects to time and agreed budget.
- To work with the Head of Engineering in the definition and co-ordination of the resources required and assigned to the projects.
- Provision of management information reporting on progress both internally and externally.
- Development of close, long term productive and conducive customer relationships.
- Development and maintenance of viable plans to achieve milestones, at all times, as required.
- Maintain a clear, comprehensive understanding of the risks and opportunities for all allocated projects and a clear understanding of necessary actions to follow up as appropriate.
- Leading bid preparation activities as required.

Ideally you will be:
- Excellent team player with well developed leadership skills
- Team leader / project management experience with a small technical team.
- Broad engineering experience with ideally some commercial or other managerial exposure.
- Degree or HND in an appropriate Engineering/Technical discipline.
- Highly proficient with Microsoft Project or equivalent project management tools.
- Excellent communication skills and commercial awareness.
- Well organised, robust, self-motivated team player.
- Experience of managing more than one project at a time is essential.
- Recent experience within a military/defence/aerospace industry is an essential attribute unless a sufficient substitute can be demonstrated (3years+ minimum).
- Have experience of managing technical projects from initial bid and design stages through to production of the product.

If interested and believe that you can support this vacancy's requirements, let us know.

Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Recruitment are those of an Employment Agency.