An exciting opportunity has become available for a Project Manager to work within our clients Hardware Tech division. The individual will take responsibility for a multiple development projects (hardware with some software) and will have project management experience preferably using agile techniques.
Working closely with Development and Product managers they will oversee the development of new products. In addition, there will be the opportunity to take project ownership for major technical upgrading and maintenance work for existing products as part of the continuing commercial development of the business.
Key Responsibilities
• Work with technical leads, product managers and team members to define a project scope and achievable schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value; ensuring cross-platform requirements, stakeholder input and on-going maintenance/technical debt considerations are included
• Deliver assigned project(s) to full project closure, tracking timescales, reporting progress to the Programme Manager and contributing to department progress reports
• Understand and communicate impact of unplanned work
• Manage multi-functional project risks and issues and provide suggestions on to how to correct deviations from plans
• Organise and lead project status meetings e.g., stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives
• Promote empowerment of the team, ensuring that each team member is fully engaged in the project and making a meaningful contribution, whilst encouraging a sustainable pace with high levels of quality for the team
• Assist in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work; leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for project work
• Ensure project team is carrying out relevant technical meetings to discuss and review their delivery of capabilities
• Deploy up to date project management tools and techniques whilst working with ISO9001 and ISO13485 frameworks using the appropriate project management techniques
Required Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
• Be able to demonstrate project management experience of leading development projects
• Knowledge of project management principles and practices
• Sufficient level of development or manufacturing of physical goods background to be able to objectively evaluate project risks and issues
• Be a highly effective communicator with strong interpersonal skills
• Have a structured and logical approach to problem solving with the ability to influence others
• Demonstrate successful team working skills with a proven track record in matrix management or cross functional
It is also desirable that prospective candidates have experience and/or familiarity with the following:
• Ideally the individual will have experience of hardware development life cycles models including management of concurrent streams
• Experience in making positive contribution to business performance through developed strategies for project delivery with demonstrated flexibility
• Hardware test management and QA processes
• Effective communication and presentation delivery
• Hold a recognised project management qualification such as Prince 2 practitioner or APM
• Knowledge of both software and hardware processes
• Familiarity with agile techniques