Hardware Manager, Six Month Contract, Stevenage
Job Description:
The Opportunity
An opportunity has arisen within an Architecture team to manage the Hardware Delivery for a development programme.
What are we looking for?
* Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
* Good organisational and administrative skills
* Ability to work in a team and on own initiative
* Ability to foster and maintain excellent working relationships
* Ability to work within a complex multiple stakeholder environment
* Ability to work to strict and/or conflicting deadlines
* Ability to produce professional and concise documentation
* Experience with Primavera P6 (inc. Work Package Management Training)
* Experience with MS Office inc. Excel, Powerpoint, Word
* Appreciation of Weapon Sub-System and Equipment assembly
* Regular travel to Bolton will be required at times
What's in it for you?
* This is a high visibility role critical to the success of the programme.
* Ideal for someone who enjoys a challenge, and who wants to make a big impact on delivery
* Will provide you with exposure to all parts of the missile, and all the equipment teams and suppliers that deliver them
* Will provide exposure to senior stakeholders on the programme
Role Requirements
You will be required to capture and manage hardware needs by:
* Capturing and collating needs for development hardware at System-level.
* Generate and manage Hardware Lists (and Configuration Notes).
* Ensuring that all H/W needs are provided to the RMOs to load onto the RPSS/Sub-contractors.
* Incrementally populate H/W Spreadsheet with Applicable Configuration data
* Adapt as-necessary to changing needs of the programme.
* Facilitate trades for Performance and Availability.
* Negotiate with local Stakeholders then agreed at CSE, CSPE, CDE level
* Secure and manage "predicted" dates from RMOs.
* Provide these delivery dates to the Project Management team and participate within Critical Path Analysis (CPA). Manufacturing management (UK specific):
* Have oversight of all h/w manufacture (incl. that h/w not delivered to System).
* Ensure that Manufacturing (incl MLU/IGP etc) have oversight of the complete manufacturing programme during development
