The Project Manager is directly accountable for the successful delivery of assigned projects — ensuring agreed outcomes are achieved on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards. This role manages projects end-to-end, making decisions and taking actions necessary to deliver results. Projects may include manufactured/remanufactured products, engineered products, innovation pipeline projects, corporate strategic initiatives, and other business optimisation programs.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities
- Owns the delivery of assigned projects, ensuring they meet agreed scope, schedule, cost, and quality objectives.
- Develops and maintains the detailed project schedule, identifying dependencies, critical paths, task ownership, and resource constraints. Actively manages and adjusts plans to achieve deadlines.
- Identifies, assesses, and manages project risks and issues, implementing mitigation and contingency plans to protect delivery commitments.
- Directs and coordinates work across all functions — engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, and others — to ensure tasks are completed to plan.
- Maintains control of project budgets, tracking expenditure, forecasting costs, and ensuring financial objectives are met.
- Makes timely decisions to remove obstacles, resolve conflicts, and maintain momentum.
- Provides accurate and regular progress reports to stakeholders, highlighting achievements, risks, and corrective actions.
- Ensures all project deliverables meet agreed technical and quality standards.
- Leads lessons-learned reviews and embeds improvements into future projects.
- Upholds and, where appropriate, challenges internal policies, processes, and standards to improve efficiency and outcomes.
Qualifications and Experience
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Management, or related field
Preferred: PMP certification.
Experience:
- At least three years of direct project leadership with full accountability for scope, schedule, cost, and quality.
- Proven experience managing multi-disciplinary teams in a matrix environment.
- Demonstrated success delivering projects within agreed parameters.
- Experience managing project budgets and controlling financial outcomes.
Skills:
- Strong decision-making, leadership, and problem-solving abilities.
- High level of organisation and time management, with the ability to manage multiple projects concurrently.
- Clear and confident communication skills with all stakeholders.
- Ability to work under pressure and maintain focus on delivery outcomes.
