The UK's trusted Ministry of Defence partner, MBDA, are looking for an experienced Manufacturing Project Manager to develop and maintain a solid and collaborative working relationship with all key stakeholders based at the Bolton site.
As a Manufacturing Project Manager, the successful candidate would ensure Manufacturing is a critical stakeholder in generating bid data throughout the Life Cycle of the Project/Product and are adequately prepared to manage and deliver competitive and complaint bid proposals.
What you'll get to do as a Manufacturing Project Manager - New Business:
- Responsible for the generations of manufacturing bids, ensuring they are competitive, compliant, and in line with all business and commercial criteria.
- Confirm risks have been assessed effectively and are financially sound and competitive.
- Actively participates in Functional & Strategic Change activities, supporting best practices & functional excellence.
- Identifying and supporting new business opportunities and developing approaches to winning the business.
- Participate fully in developing, maintaining, and modifying manufacturing processes and procedures in assigned areas following relevant standards, best practices, and design needs.
- Support the continued validation and evolution of the cost model and bidding methodology within MF to ensure competitiveness checks are in place on all bids.
- Control and monitor small projects or sub-projects - and contribute support to cross-functional projects/investigations - to deliver them to the agreed time.
- Budget and quality, regularly reviewing and reporting on progress against plan and, where necessary, intervening to resolve issues so that the project is delivered to plan.
- Collect, summarise, and present information or data, carry out pre-defined analyses, ensure completeness and accuracy, and provide it to others for decision-making.
- Ensure effective process governance in assigned areas, ensure projects adhere to all policies and procedures, promote a culture of best practice sharing and knowledge exploitation, and contribute to overall MBDA bidding activities.
What we're looking for:
- Experienced Project Manager with a proven track record in delivering fixed cost programmes, of significant value, within a matrix organisation.
- Experience within an engineering or production environment would be of preference.
- Experience communicating at a high level, interfacing with key stakeholders to respond to complex situations and effectively influence the function and broader business.
- Able to build strong relationships, with experience of working within multi-functional teams and delivering promptly.
- Enthusiastic, pro-active, and tenacious individual who can prioritise and understand strategic business needs and manage the day-to-day tactical decisions.
- Experience in the application of Project Management skills at the assistant level in a relevant business environment
- You must be a UK national or citizen to be eligible for the role.
More about the role:
MBDA's relationship with the UK military spans back over 70 years. They have delivered countless landmarks in defence engineering, supplying vital defence capability to meet the needs of the armed forces over land, sea, and air.
This role is based in Bolton, one of MBDA's newest cutting-edge facilities, which also offers showers and bike racks. The Bolton site is considered one of the North West's leading manufacturing capabilities for the next 25 years and beyond. Training and development are offered to all employees.
Guidant Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
