Senior Project Manager

at  Renishaw plc

Job Description
At Renishaw, we are leaders in delivering high accuracy metrology solutions to industrial, medical, and scientific processes around the world. Our range of Laser Calibration products set the benchmark in accuracy for thousands of engineering processes and systems ranging from CNC machining to the manufacture of advanced semiconductors and are recognised as the gold standard in the market.
Renishaw’s Laser Calibration Products Division (LCPD) is made up of engineers, scientists and technicians all collaborating to produce market leading products for sale around the world. Working closely with colleagues in our manufacturing division, we develop manufacturing and assembly processes and software to deliver quality products that in turn, perform reliably and repeatedly to sub-micron accuracies for our customers.
We’re currently looking for a Project Manager to work within multi-disciplinary design teams to co-ordinate product development projects within LCPD. As a Project Manager in LCPD, you’ll work within Renishaw’s design change process and new product development process to manage current product development projects through the project lifecycle and report progress to various stakeholders at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Manage multi-disciplinary activities of Current Products proactive product development projects, ensuring completion of tasks to time, cost, and quality requirements. Managed activities will include:
• Product design and development tasks
• Product test programmes
• Process development tasks
• Manage design change, adhering to engineering change procedures and processes, work closely with design and manufacturing teams to implement changes into production
• Manage development of special solutions for key customers, from requirements capture through to production, ensuring specifications and delivery times are achieved
• Develop and maintain accurate project documentation and plans
• Regularly report on project status and risks as agreed with the stakeholders, communicating through written word, conversations, and presentations
• Take an active, hands-on role to understand how engineering problems are resolved thoroughly and help support that resolution

Key requirements

• A Degree or HND in an engineering or scientific discipline, or the ability to demonstrate comparable applied knowledge and experience
• Knowledge of project planning and project management techniques
• Technical awareness and understanding of design functions and engineering change processes
• Previous experience in a project/risk management role, ideally within a complex engineering environment

• Awareness of MRP/ERP systems

  Desirable requirements

• Understanding of metrology and optical measurement technology

• Experience of Design/Process FMEA & risk management
• APMP/PMQ Qualified

Person specification
As a Project Manager at Renishaw, you’ll have a positive attitude to problem solving, using your communication and interpersonal skills to be pro-active, striving towards meeting the needs of a day-to-day project environment. You’ll also enjoy being reactive, working as part of an engineering team to ensure no problem goes unsolved as projects develop across the division.
Benefits
When you join Renishaw, we’re committing to your future career. That’s because we believe in developing our people’s skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that’s highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, subsidised onsite restaurants and *coffee shops, free parking, *car sharing scheme and *24 hour fitness centres. (not available at our Castle Donington, Exeter, York & Edinburgh sites).
We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a Homeworking policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, the option to join BUPA Renishaw health trust and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.
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At Renishaw we believe that our success is powered by welcoming a workforce of diverse and talented people. Through encouraging an inclusive culture, where all our employees are free to be themselves, we can achieve our core values: Innovation, Inspiration, Integrity, and Involvement.
If you are excited about the role but feel as though you don’t meet all the requirements, we would encourage you still to apply. You might just be the right person for this role or another opportunity at Renishaw.
We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, or require any reasonable adjustments please contact the recruitment team on 01453 524600 or recruitment@renishaw.com.
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Employment Type:
Permanent
Time Type:
Full time
Requisition Number:
R6688 Senior Project Manager (Open

• Manage multi-disciplinary activities of Current Products proactive product development projects, ensuring completion of tasks to time, cost, and quality requirements. Managed activities will include:
• Product design and development tasks
• Product test programmes
• Process development tasks
• Manage design change, adhering to engineering change procedures and processes, work closely with design and manufacturing teams to implement changes into production
• Manage development of special solutions for key customers, from requirements capture through to production, ensuring specifications and delivery times are achieved
• Develop and maintain accurate project documentation and plans
• Regularly report on project status and risks as agreed with the stakeholders, communicating through written word, conversations, and presentations
• Take an active, hands-on role to understand how engineering problems are resolved thoroughly and help support that resolutio