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Manufacturing Project Manager
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Manufacturing Project Manager
Project Manager
An opportunity has arisen for a Project Manager to join a dynamic and forward-thinking manufacturing team to deliver complex manufacturing projects.
Salary & Working Arrangements
- Circa £45,000 depending on experience
- Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2–3 days per week on-site due to workload classification
- Security Clearance:
- British Citizen or Dual UK national with British citizenship
- HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard check (BPSS) required post-offer
Benefits
- Company bonus: up to £2,500 (based on company performance)
- Pension: maximum total contribution (employer + employee) up to 14%
- Paid overtime opportunities
- Flexi Leave: up to 15 additional days
- Flexible working welcome for all applicants
- Enhanced parental leave: up to 26 weeks (with enhancements for maternity, adoption, shared parental leave, paternity leave, neonatal leave, and fertility testing/treatments)
- Site facilities:
- Subsidised meals
- Free car parking
- Healthcare Cash Plan: covering optical, dental, health, and wellbeing expenses
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The Opportunity
Collaborate within a forward-thinking manufacturing team, drive change, and work on ambitious projects. The Project Manager will interface domestically and internationally, balancing tactical execution with strategic impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver fixed-cost programmes in a matrix environment, interfacing with customers, suppliers, and senior management
- Manage project scope, track deviations, and negotiate changes while assessing cost, schedule, and quality impact
- Risk management & mitigation: identify cost/schedule/quality risks and opportunities, develop mitigation plans
- Lead project execution: prioritise objectives, mentor teams, champion proactive improvement
- Plan & maintain project controls using tools like Primavera or Microsoft Project
- Bid & estimation leadership: generate costings for existing products or new ones in collaboration with design/engineering teams
- Stakeholder collaboration: engage across the organisation, acting as a single point of contact for Industrial Transfer projects
- Relationship management: maintain strong connections with Manufacturing & Industrial Transfer Engineers
- Technical familiarity: preference for experience in engineering/production environments (including production transfer projects)
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About MBDA
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- Employee-driven networks (Gender Equality, Pride, Neurodiversity, Veterans, etc.)
- Diversity & inclusion: accommodations welcome throughout the recruitment process
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