Project Manager
32.97 - 43.61 per hour
Working for one of the biggest Aerospace companies in the world, Morson are currently recruiting for a Work Package Leader to support sustainable fuel development. Working within Fuel and Additives you will coordinate and give direction to a motivated team of fuel scientists for future developments. You will need experience as a Project Manager, Project Leader, Project Engineer or Work Package Manager within an engineering environment, ideally with a focus on Chemistry or R&D.
The role has been raised to cover a secondment so is initially from March to September, but may have permanent opportunities. Based in Filton there will be a minimum of 3 days a week on site across a 35-hour week. We can pay a rate of 32.97 per hour PAYE or 43.61 per hour Umbrella.
Responsibilities
- Focus on the management of fuels and fuel additives for conventional kerosene aircraft in service to assess and approve changes.
- Support the project management of the planned tasks, and manage new work requested from the team. Including scoping of work, assessing budget needs, and ensuring work is delivered on time.
- A key responsibility is to coordinate with other stakeholders building and driving internal planning to introduce new fuels & additives to the full Family of aircraft.
- Developing a shared vision for the future of fuel and additive development activities in collaboration with the Future Fuels Leader
- Providing functional support to the fuel properties team to prioritise workload and communicate schedule and spend progress. Provide clear, simple progress statements to internal customers and stakeholders
- Estimating cost and lead times working in collaboration with the Group Leader to meet resource and deliverable requests from programme.
Essential Skills
- Experience as an senior engineer with project/work leadership responsibilities.
- Track record of leading projects and successful delivery.
- Excellent stakeholder management both internal and external and communicate concisely with stakeholders on progress, risks and opportunities.
- Need to have an understanding of R&D or engineering development.
- Strong experience working with transnational teams and across contractual boundaries with customers and suppliers.
- Ability to drive work in Agile or traditional project management approaches.
- Ability to manage complex technical information.
Desirable skills
- Degree, or equivalent experience in engineering or chemistry.
- A knowledge of fuel properties, fuel systems and sustainability initiatives.
- Experience in a chemistry specialism.
Recognising the RESTRICTED nature of the work, suitable candidates will be SC cleared or eligible for this level of clearance before starting on site
