Copperchase Projects Manager

Permanent Job Recruitment

 Date Published:13/11/2024 

Job Description

Summary

The position of Projects Manager has a high-level of job responsibility and serves as a mediator between Copperchase Customers and the Copperchase Engineering Staff. The Projects Manager will be in charge of planning, monitoring and supervising the execution specific company projects (internal and external).

Duties associated with this position involve monitoring associated project budgets, allocating project resources and motivating and managing the Projects team members. Other duties include assistance to the Sales team, issuing progress reports and ensuring project deadlines are met in a timely and efficient fashion

Applicants for this position are generally required to have a number of years’ experience in a high level Technical or managerial role.

Description

The Projects Manager is responsible for devising, organizing, and implementing company delivery projects, both product deliveries and development projects as defined by the Copperchase QA Procedures. The Projects Manager will work with and manage Copperchase project teams. These teams may include development, and product project management.

A Projects Manager will perform of the following tasks:

Main Tasks

• Liaising with the customer to ensure projects are competed to their satisfaction.
• Managing, supervising and planning work execution for Projects and new developments.
• Providing resolution for problems
• Maintaining Projects schedules (Mondays CRM system)
• Reporting on project status (Mondays CRM System)
• Managing project team
• Accounting for project cost, time and budget
• Mitigating Projects risks
• Reporting back to the Directors.

Assisting Sales team in the following areas.

• Taking customer RFQ , liaising with suppliers to produce offers
• Taking customer PO , PO acknowledgment and PO acceptance
• Arranging shipments of ordered products/services.
• Customer support (Freshdesk Support tool)
• Maintaining customer relationships
• Maintaining supplier relationships
• Site visits for sales

Other responsibilities

• Engineering Team holiday approval – E days
• Import and export paperwork, harmonised and CPC codes. IPR issues.
• Part of personnel selection/training/evaluation
• Interpreting and applying company rules.
• Procedure change writing
• Project RAMS/Workplace Risk Assessments
• Site access arrangement (passes etc)
• Production of Visio supplier drawings (Metalwork)

Skills

• Project Management (Preferably PRINCE 2 level – but nor essential)
• Ability to gain Security Clearance (for UK MOD)
• Understanding of the Project Cycle as defined in Copperchase QA Procedures
• Being flexible
• Being analytical
• Being collaborative
• Creative thinking
• Problem solving
• Negotiating
• Project management
• Planning
• Organisation
• Leadership
• Being open minded
• Being willing and helpful
• Being approachable
• Being commercially aware

Education

The candidate should be educated to at least HNC level in a technical field. (electronic, electrical or similar).

Remuneration

TBA

As a senior and trusted member of the company management team, the Projects Manager will be required to agree to offer a 3 month Notice of termination of Contract.