Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.
Project Manager - Contractor (Electrical Focus)
Get notified of more jobs like this · No spam, ever
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Project Manager - Contractor (Electrical Focus)
An exciting 6-month opportunity to lead a team of engineers through the final design, manufacture, test, verification, and qualification phases of a high-resolution optical payload imager electronics programme.
We are seeking a proactive and driven Project Manager with satellite systems experience and a strong track record of leading multidisciplinary developments. Experience delivering electrical systems — including FPGA, software, PCA hardware, and EGSE — would be highly advantageous, alongside good awareness of acceptance and qualification testing of spacecraft systems.
This is a hands-on role, based on site in Guildford, embedded within the project team, and focused on resolving technical and programme challenges as they arise to ensure successful delivery to schedule, cost, and quality objectives.
Key Tasks
Role to include, but not limited to:
- Manage the delivery of the imager electronics to multiple internal customers, ensuring alignment with programme objectives and stakeholder expectations.
- Take full responsibility for all aspects of project delivery, operating in accordance with established SSTL processes and procedures, including scheduling, risk management, and technical maturity reviews.
- Provide day-to-day leadership of the project core team, ensuring activities remain aligned with the baseline plan through strong leadership, clear direction, and effective motivation of the engineering teams.
- Define and structure project work into appropriate work packages, securing resource commitments and delivery plans with engineering team leads.
- Maintain effective communication with key internal stakeholders, including Engineering Functional Managers and Heads of Engineering.
- Proactively manage project risks, ensuring risks are identified, assessed, and tracked, with clear and measurable mitigation actions implemented through the project work package structure.
- Monitor and control project finances, including contingency management, cost-to-complete forecasting, and profit realization, ensuring delivery within the agreed budget and risk profile.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Previous Experience
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
- Proven project management experience, with a strong track record of successfully delivering satellite programmes, ideally involving complex electrical modules or subsystems.
- Familiarity with work package management and operating within a matrix organization structure would be advantageous.
Qualifications, Knowledge & Skills
- Strong people management and leadership skills, with the ability to motivate and guide teams within a collaborative, team-oriented environment.
- Excellent teamworking and stakeholder engagement skills, with the confidence to build effective relationships at all levels of the organization.
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence, negotiate, and build consensus across both technical and non-technical stakeholders, internally and externally.
- Highly organised, self-motivated, and proactive, with the initiative to identify and address challenges early.
- Adaptable and flexible in response to changing priorities and programme demands.
- Results-focused, with a strong drive to achieve successful project outcomes.
- Strong decision-making and creative problem-solving capabilities.
- Clear and effective communicator, able to convey complex information in a concise and structured manner.
- Proven ability to deliver solutions under pressure and within challenging timescales.
- Able to work closely with technical teams to understand complex concepts and issues, translating these into schedule, cost, and risk impacts with a balanced and pragmatic approach.
- Demonstrates SSTL’s core behaviours and values, including accountability, delivery focus, effective communication, self-management, and collaborative teamwork.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London