9 project manager jobs found in Rochester

Job Title: Engineering Project Manager Location: Rochester, Kent Salary: Up to £85,000 depending on experience What you’ll be doing: Oversee and manage Engineering projects through the full lifecycle; define the execution strategy; ensuring compliant products and services delivered on time, and to budget Give technical direction. Making key technical decisions and balancing trade-offs between various factors Work closely with both our global customers and supply chain, operating as cross-functional teams to deliver project objectives , requirements and deliverables Drive continuous improvement by implementing innovative Engineering practices, solutions and technologies Serve as the primary Engineering point of contact for stakeholders into your project Guide and support team members, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment You’ll also have people manager responsibilities in this role. (Remove if no people...

Job Title: Lead Systems Engineer / Team Lead Location: Rochester Salary: Up to £65,000 dependent on skills and experience. We are recruiting for a range of technical and team leading positions What you’ll be doing: Providing guidance to less experienced engineers, supporting team members wellbeing and career development Collaborating to uncover technical solutions and sharing recommendations Contributing to strategic project aspects and facilitating implementation of initiatives Understanding scope, size and time phasing of packages of work, how these contribute to project success Understanding the team size and skillset required, giving regular status and recommendations on resourcing requirements to the project and functional engineering manager Understanding and enabling dependencies or facilities required across the team Supporting the business by creating new estimates for bids and maintaining the schedule and budget for on-going...

Job Title: Subcontract Manager Location: Rochester Salary: Circa £65,000 dependent on experience What you’ll be doing: Develop requirements and manage subcontractor selection within a cross-functional team Manage all subcontract documentation, data, and reports accurately and on time Negotiate terms, price agreements, and contracts with subcontractors, resolving conflicts and ensuring compliance Ensure adherence to contractual obligations, including payments, claims, warranties, and contract amendments Proactively manage subcontractor performance to meet schedule, cost, and quality requirements, and embed KPIs Effectively manage variations to subcontracts, minimising impacts and ensuring clear communication Identify and manage emerging risks, including those within the subcontractor’s supply chain Build and maintain effective relationships with suppliers and internal teams (engineering, project management ) ensuring a coordinated...

Job Title: Test Systems Team Leader Location: Rochester, Kent Salary: Up to £65,000 depending on skills and experience What you’ll be doing Working in a team environment you will be leading a multi disciplined engineering team, developing test equipment solutions that support the complex and demanding requirements of our military products. Our test solutions are multifaceted and versatile, using model-based engineering approaches to provide innovative equipment across our customer base You will be managing the complete development lifecycle, within a challenging timescale, in order to support our customer requirements Supporting our drive to innovative test solutions, maximising automation Championing team performance and development Management of schedule adherence and cost control Full engineering lifecycle, risk and opportunity management Lead stakeholder project reviews Support across the bid lifecycle Pro-active...

Job Title: Buyer Location: Rochester Salary: Circa £30,000 dependent on experience What you’ll be doing: To receive requisitions and demands, negotiate with suppliers, and process Purchase Orders and Purchase Order amendments in accordance with Procurement processes and procedures, and the requirements of the business To understand the budget requirements for the Purchase Orders they are responsible for, and to support achievement of these requirements through effective negotiation with their supplier To obtain and communicate progress updates from suppliers in an effective manner, and be capable of resolving issues in a satisfactory manner. Whereby understanding when to escalate more critical issues to senior members of staff To maintain Supplier open order books and ensure that correct and current data is maintained in the Oracle ERP system To process supplier returns, ensuring these are actioned in a timely manner To understand and support the...

Job Title: Senior Buyer/Procurement Professional Location: Rochester Salary: Circa £45,000 dependent on experience What you’ll be doing: Negotiate terms, conditions, pricing, and contracts with suppliers Act as the main point of contact between suppliers and the business, building effective relationships Monitor budgets for purchase orders and identify opportunities for cost savings through effective negotiation Track supplier performance, communicate key KPIs , and address issues at a senior level Maintain accurate supplier order books and data in the Oracle ERP system Support the implementation of corporate procurement processes, including strategic supplier, sub-contract, and commodity management Coach and train junior staff on procurement processes and procedures, assist with audits and improvement plans Your skills and experiences: Essential: Proven experience in buying, procurement and purchasing Experience in leading...

Job Title: Commercial Assistant Location: Rochester Salary: £26,000 What you’ll be doing: Acting as the interface with our customer base Supporting a project team in preparing quotations to Customers, pursue the resultant order intake and manage contracts in line with established policies and requirements Responsible for interpreting and communicating customer requirements Identifying and mitigating risk and assessing opportunity Supporting the business to manage change and deliver upon its financial commitments Engaging with project management , internally, finance, and in terms of external stakeholders it’s their customers usually defence contractors Your skills and experiences: Essential: High Attention to detail Good literacy and numeracy and MS Office skills Organisational skills Desirable: Administrative experience within a commercial/ legal / sales / customer support setting Previous administrative...

Job title: Senior Systems Engineer Location: Rochester We offer full and part time opportunities – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role. Salary: £45,000 – £60,000 dependent on skills and experience What you’ll be doing: Understanding our customers’ complex needs and collaborating to develop, validate and manage requirements at multiple levels Developing complex system architectures and sub-systems using a Model Based Systems Engineering approach Integration, analysis and test of real time systems containing multiple technical disciplines such as electronic, mechanical, optical and software sub-systems Taking accountability for collaborative technical work package execution and associated outcomes Providing guidance, coaching and nurturing talent in other engineers Verifying that customer needs are satisfied Steering new and improved systems...

Job Title: Manufacturing Engineer (NPI) Location: Rochester Salary: £43,000 – £50,000 depending on skills and experience What you’ll be doing: Working within a highly collaborative, cross‑functional team to develop and deliver advanced aerospace electronic systems, including head‑up displays (HUDs), helmet‑mounted displays, flight control computers, active inceptors/control sticks, and a wide range of commercial and military avionics Delivering NPI outputs in line with an Operations project plan, ensuring manufacturing readiness aligns with programme milestones from Bid and Development through Qualification and Initial Production Partnering closely with Engineering teams to review, challenge , and influence designs, ensuring they meet Unit Production Cost targets (UPC) and Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (PFMEA) objectives Leading producibility reviews and championing Design for Manufacture (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA)....