Digital Project Leader
Location: Broughton (minimum 60% onsite)
Contract: 12‑month contract
Hours: 35 hours per week (flexible working between 7am-7pm)
Clearance: BPSS+ (arranged by the client)
IR35: Inside IR35
About the Role
We're proud to partner with a leading aerospace organisation that's driving ambitious digital transformation across its Broughton site. As a Digital Project Leader, you'll play a key role in shaping and delivering digital initiatives that make a real impact on how the business operates.
Working with cross‑functional teams, you'll help design and deploy world‑class digital solutions, enhance operational efficiency, and contribute to a wider digitalisation strategy that touches every area of the plant. This is an exciting role for someone who enjoys variety, collaboration, and seeing their work deliver meaningful results.
What You'll Be Doing
You'll have the opportunity to lead and support a wide range of digital transformation activities, including:
- Delivering digitalisation projects across multiple areas of the Broughton plant (PAC, A350, SA02, SA03).
- Building strong relationships with stakeholders, including customers, suppliers and multifunctional team members.
- Ensuring alignment with wider transformation workstreams and supporting the rollout of new toolsets.
- Identifying, managing and communicating project risks.
- Using data analytics to drive improvements in industrial system performance.
- Supporting financial aspects of digital projects (CAPEX, OPEX, chargeback, RC/NRC).
- Helping deliver annual milestones within the Digitalisation Route Map.
- Championing Google Workspace tools and supporting Microsoft decommissioning activities.
- Flagging any cyber security compliance concerns and ensuring best practice is followed.
What You'll Bring
We're looking for someone who is proactive, collaborative and comfortable working with autonomy. To succeed in this role, you'll need:
Essential skills
- Strong project management abilities, ideally with experience of Airbus tools/processes such as LBIP/eLBIP.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to adapt your style to different audiences.
- Strong interpersonal skills and a natural ability to build effective working relationships.
- A proactive, flexible mindset with the confidence to take the initiative.
- An understanding of wing operational processes and data flows through systems and applications.
- The ability to map data flows or communicate insights using data visualisation.
Desirable skills
Not essential, but a bonus if you have experience with:
- Skywise
- Coding (Python, JavaScript, Apps Script)
- Robotic Process Automation
- Artificial Intelligence
- Deploying digital toolsets
Who This Role Would Suit
This opportunity is ideal for someone who:
- Enjoys problem‑solving and introducing new ideas.
- Feels confident presenting in both small groups and larger forums.
- Is technically curious (you don't need to be a coder - just someone who understands digital concepts and can translate them meaningfully).
The organisation welcomes applicants from a range of industries, making this a great chance for someone looking to step into the aerospace sector.
Pay & Benefits
- Up to £40 per hour (umbrella) or £29.89 per hour PAYE.
Why Apply?
This role offers a fantastic opportunity to:
- Influence meaningful digital change at the heart of a major aerospace facility.
- Develop your project leadership capabilities within a supportive, forward‑thinking environment.
- Work with a wide network of experts, innovators and operational teams.
- Build experience across digital tooling, transformation and data‑driven improvement.
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
