Job Description

Project Manager

With exciting growth underway, we are looking to add a Project Manager to our Wimborne Curtiss-Wright team! This role will lead a range of engineering development projects across our Neutron Monitoring product line for the nuclear industry. You will play a key role in delivering on strategic business objectives – overseeing the engineering lifecycle, including planning, scheduling, customer engagement, and financial ownership, ensuring successful project execution.

Location: Wimborne, UK

Your Challenge:

• Execution of projects throughout project life cycle in accordance with defined time, budget, and quality objectives.
• Create and maintain Project Management Plans, ensuring timely, responsive completion of deliverables
• Create and maintain project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS).
• Identify stakeholders and create project Communications Plans.
• Develop appropriate strategies for effectively engaging stakeholders in project decision and execution.
• Manage and control costs as per the project budget.
• Report and present project KPIs to Senior Management Team.
• Manage project scope and perform integrated change control.
• Facilitate communications between key internal department resources (i.e. Sales, Engineering, Manufacturing).
• Acquire, develop, and manage project team resources.
• Mediate problems/issues encountered by project team members
• Manage external-facing customer relationships.
• Support Procurement to establish and maintain key supplier relationships.
• Conduct risk management planning, identification, analysis, and response planning.
• Ensure project records are maintained and made available in accordance with project management processes and company policies.
• Delivering projects in line with business contract and quality requirements
• Ownership of tactical/operational plans for the programs asigned.
• Ability to recommend strategies that will impact mid to long term business achievments through program opportunities
• Provision of support on bid work where necessary
• High degree of responsibility for resources, the ability to influence business decisions and will contribute to operating plans in support of the function.
• Provide mentoring to others in the organization

What You Bring:

• Security contractual compliance will require incumbents must be a sole British National
• Holds Project Management qualification (PMI, APM or global equivalent)
• Desirable for education of Bachelor’s degree level
• An action-oriented person who drives results with strong customer focus
• Strong communicator with excellent leadership skills

Desired Skills:

• Focusses on the generation of specific outputs and outcomes required by the organisation, as part of a project.
• Provides the project team with leadership, planning, and coordination through communications.
• Provides written communications (e.g. documented plans and scheduled) and communicates in real time with the project team using meetings and verbal or non-verbal cues.
• Leads the project planning activities
• Directs the creation, approval, and ongoing change control of the project plan
• Progressively elaborates high-level information into detailed plans throughout the project life cycle
• Manages the project team to meet the project objectives
• Guides and evaluates the performance of the project team
• Mediates problems/issues encountered by project team members
• Ensures that project members understand what is expected of them and what they should expect from one another
• Identifies, addresses, and resolves differences between individuals and/or interest groups

Who We Are

Our Values

Environmental, Social and Governance

Curtiss-Wright Wimborne, a Business Unit of Curtiss-Wright Nuclear, is a global engineering and design manufacture leader with just over six decades of experience designing for heavily regulated markets, such as nuclear, aerospace, oil and gas, and more. We develop sensors and instrumentation and control solutions for harsh environments and mission critical applications when safety and reliability matter. We focus on our customers’ success in every step of our process from sales engagement, quality, delivery, and customer service. Our customers trust us and know our commitment to safety is our top priority.

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Compliance Statement

This position may require exposure to export-controlled information and subject to additional security screening. In the event information provided during the security screening reveals ineligibility to access export-controlled information, any offer of employment may be reconsidered or withdrawn.

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