Job Description

Project Manager

Wotton under Edge

Up to £42,000 depending on experience

Renishaw is seeking a Project Manager / Senior Project Manager with strong project coordination and management skills to join our Machine Tool Products Division (MPD) and support the development of our future product range roadmaps.

Reporting to a Senior Project Manager, you will be focused on a mixture of hardware and software development projects and will collaborate with multi-disciplinary research and development teams to manage a variety of R&D and product upgrade projects. Your work will contribute to the advancement of new techniques, technologies, and products, helping to drive innovation within the Machine Tool Products sector.

This role is based at our New Mills site near Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire. Occasional travel to other sites may be required, depending on business needs.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the management of MPD projects, from planning the project scope, execution of these plans, and the release of new products and technologies to market

• Supporting projects through the formal Renishaw product development process

• Communicating project progress and status to a range of stakeholders through various mediums, including verbal presentations and written documentation

• Leading the risk management process and manage the resource requirements for project team(s)

• Managing the compliance and documentation processes, project cost and resource forecast using Renishaw custom software

• Leading team update meetings, risk register reviews, and retrospectives/ lessons learnt

• Assist with reporting of your projects for board papers, project reports and product roadmaps

• Contribute to project management process improvement initiatives both within the division and across the wider group

Key Requirements

• You should be familiar with working to project management processes for R&D projects, managing projects that deliver new products to market

• This role may be suited to graduates or those who have recently qualified.

• You should have some experience managing projects that deliver new products to market and product launches

• Minimum HNC / Degree educated (2:1 or above) in a relevant discipline (STEM or Management), or equivalent experience.

• Able to work effectively as part of a diverse and global team, but able to work independently as well to drive outcomes

• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications.

• A full, valid passport ensuring unrestricted travel to and from the UK.

• A full UK driving license

Desirable requirements

• Experience or knowledge of software development project methodologies: Agile, SCRUM, etc.

• Recognised project management qualifications such as APM, Prince2, etc.

• Experience managing RDEC/BEIS government funded projects would be highly advantageous

• Experience of using configuration management systems for managing software development and engineering changes (e.g., Microsoft DevOps, Atlassian products, SharePoint, TeamCenter, etc)

Person specification

As a Project Manager, you’ll be a self-motivated, organised and dynamic individual, keen to make a significant contribution within our Machine Tool Products Division. You’ll communicate effectively, be innovative and highly organised, enabling yourself to manage multiple projects of your ownership simultaneously and achieve the best project outcome possible, while supported by a Senior Project Manager and surrounding teams. You’ll also be happy and able to work effectively as part of a diverse and global team, whilst also able to work independently to drive outcomes.

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 all sites).

We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working 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, Health Cash Plan, the option to join Renishaw Health Trust (Aviva) 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 490384 or [email protected].

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Employment Type:

Permanent

Time Type:

Full time

Requisition Number:

R9442 Project Manager (Open)