Project Manager

Location: Birmingham

Salary: Competitive

Hours: 37 hours per week - Monday to Thursday 07.30-16.00, Friday 07.30-12.30

Our client is a well-established and expanding manufacturing company based in Birmingham

The Role

In order to meet their ambitious growth targets, they are looking for a Junior Project Manager to join their team. The purpose of the role is to manage key design, development and manufacturing projects from bid to completion within agreed time, cost and performance targets and to manage and develop the customer relationships on assigned projects.

Day-to-day activities include:

• Providing project management support through scheduling, task planning, team organisation, development of budgets/financial models and preparation of other supporting documentation as required.
• To be the primary customer contact for assigned projects
• Successfully manage assigned projects for a business stream achieving customer requirements along with meeting the business goals of schedule, quality, cost, risk management
• Maximise opportunities to win new or follow-on business and prepare Bid information
• Monitor project performance against plan and identify appropriate corrective actions by conducting periodic cost, schedule, performance and risk reviews
• Identify and secure the required resources to successfully execute project
• Manage all customer interfaces and communicate effectively to senior management team members and peers to establish a common understanding of project scope and plan for successful project execution
• Prepare and present project status reports to key stakeholders on a regular basis
• Carry out any other duties as reasonably required

Skills and Qualifications

• Educated to a minimum of HNC standard or equivalent
• Knowledge and practical experience of best practice in Project Management techniques
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Excellent team working skills
• Microsoft project & Microsoft word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Preferred:

• Engineering or Technical background / understanding
• Associate member of APM (Association of Project Managers)

Benefits

• Company events
• Company pension
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• Sick pay

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for this reputable company, please do not hesitate to apply.