Our engineering clients based in Fareham have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join their growing team. They are seeking an experienced Project Manager who has worked within an engineering or manufacturing environment and who has experience running multiple projects. Duties & Responsibilities * Preparation of project plans with associated budget, resource requirements and schedule as required. * Working closely with cross-functional business teams to ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget and to cost constraints * Management of a mix of multi-project portfolio ranging from short duration express projects and more complex longer duration engineering projects * Management of projects through their lifespan in line with best practice project management processes * Regular reporting of project status and progress updates to all relevant stakeholders. * Maintaining and developing customer relationships with regular project updates to keep customers informed on all aspects of project status * Maintaining, tracking and reporting of project related KPIs with traffic light escalation as appropriate * Analysis of projects with lessons learnt and improvement actions, engagement with quality team * Risk management identifying, sizing, reporting, monitoring, and mitigating as appropriate * Management of projects actions, issues, and risk register. * Contribution with technical and engineering resource requirements for business planning and budgeting. * Preparation and presentation of project status data to enable allocation and prioritisation of resources in conjunction with business stakeholders * Liaison and negotiation with business stakeholders for the allocation of budget approved resources to projects. * Maintain a common understanding across all cross -functional stakeholders of deliverable expectations from allocated tasks and delivery dates. * Maintain process and practice consistency with appropriate review and refresh of BMS processes, work instructions, templates and tools * Participation in the review, creation and improvement of best practice project management processes and associated procedures and toolsets. Ideal skills & experience: * Experience working with electromechanical manufactured products, or within the defence industry would be an advantage * Experience running multiple projects * Experienced Project Manager with exposure to working within the manufacturing industry Working hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Informal hybrid working arrangements in place Benefits: 25 days holiday BH Pension Sick pay Life assurance, after probation period plus, other benefits