Key Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional product development projects from concept through to production.
• Develop and manage detailed project plans, schedules, budgets, risks and resource plans.
• Drive projects through structured stage-gate development processes.
• Monitor project progress and communicate status, risks and mitigation plans to senior stakeholders.
• Coordinate activities across hardware, embedded software, mechanical engineering, manufacturing, quality and test teams.
• Manage project scope, timelines and change control processes.
• Ensure projects meet regulatory, quality and product compliance requirements.
• Identify opportunities to improve project delivery processes and best practices.

About You

You will bring strong project management experience within an engineering-led product development environment together with the leadership skills to coordinate multidisciplinary technical teams.

You will ideally have:

• Degree qualification in Engineering, Science or a related technical discipline.
• Formal Project Management qualification such as PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent.
• Approximately eight or more years' experience managing engineering or electronics product development projects.
• Experience delivering projects using structured project management methodologies and stage-gate processes.
• Excellent stakeholder management, leadership and communication skills.
• Strong planning, organisational and risk management capabilities.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced technical environment.

Exposure to several of the following would be highly advantageous:

• Electronic hardware development.
• Embedded software or firmware development.
• Mechanical product design.
• IoT or connected products.
• Product validation, verification and certification.
• Regulated industries such as life safety, medical devices or industrial electronics.
• Project management tools such as MS Project, Jira, Confluence, Monday.com or similar.
• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems.

What's on Offer

• Opportunity to work on innovative products that have a genuine real-world impact.
• Join an established R&D organisation with significant investment in new product development.
• Collaborative, multidisciplinary engineering environment.
• Excellent opportunities for ongoing professional development and career progression.
• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.