Lead Electronics Project Manager Job in United Kingdom Recruiting by Dyson

Manage electronics hardware and software delivery in projects utilising the appropriate systems, processes and resources to facilitate an optimal delivery from concept through end of life. This will include identifying, managing and mitigating the projects risk and issues, and agreeing accountabilities and responsibilities with the wider project team

Coordinate and communicate project scope, identify dependencies and deliverables, and understand the critical path to secure timely project delivery.

Lead electronics engineering teams through the execution of projects, accurately and regularly reporting progress, including representing the project at various project, programme and product reviews.

Working with electronics engineering management, create resource plans to determine demand and manage project resource allocation.

Identify, manage and/or escalate as appropriate, issues impacting electronics ability to meet delivery commitments.

Where deviations from agreed plan arise, take ownership and drive to resolution.

Define, assess and track the impact of change requests, ensuring all stakeholders understand and agree resulting implications.

Manage progress, analyse, collate & report project status and data from a cost, time, spec perspective.

Identify and manage stakeholders, resolve conflicts, empower and inspire teams.

Act as the primary contact for the project both within Electronics and the wider Dyson.

You will be expected to identify and drive improvement opportunities to both engineering and project management processes and support development and dissemination of best practice and tools.

Work independently, with minimal guidance.

Degree qualified (electronics engineering or science discipline preferable) or equivalent.

A track record of 5+ years technical project manager position within an engineering environment with a solid understanding of Electronics hardware and software, covering full product lifecycle.

A strong background in product development in global engineering organisations.

A formal, or working towards, Project Management qualification (e.g. APM PMQ).

Effective communicator: ability to convey complex subject matter and issues clearly, concisely, and accurately.

Excellent interpersonal skills: ability to build productive working relationships across the business.

Excellent analytical skills: able to assess problems thoroughly and drive logical and evidence-based conclusions.

Confident: comfortable interacting with senior executives and presenting a robust, high-level summary, backed by data.

Credible: ability to demonstrate a good level of understanding of engineering processes in order to work with design teams throughout the project development cycle.

Self-motivated: able to resolve conflict, inspire teams, mentor peers.

Balanced: ability to shape project direction without imposing their own views or prejudices on the outcome.

Ability to balance several tasks at any one time and communicate progress and concerns in a timely manner.

Comfortable managing projects in a fast moving and dynamic environment.

Experience of working in agile developments (for example SAFe), using tools such as the Atlassian suite, would be an advantage.

Experience of working in distributed development model would be desirable, for example, outsourced development.

Demonstrates understanding of planning, both top down and bottom up, scheduling, risk and issue management and resource allocation procedures.

PMP is a prerequisite