About this role
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AAC Clyde Space is at the forefront of small satellite technology and services.
This opportunity is ideal for someone with experience in project management in a technical business and looking for project management challenges in the New Space Industry. You will be passionate about being involved in a dynamic, fast-paced working environment with challenging schedules for exciting missions and products. You will have previous experience with customers and stakeholder management.
The role is responsible for leading allocated projects throughout their lifecycle, delivering successfully against objectives in terms of cost, technical scope, terms of contract with the customers, and time schedules. You will report to the Head of Programmes, while leading both engineering and production.
This position offers the opportunity to share your expertise in a fast-growing space technology company — helping to deliver innovative satellite missions.
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Key Responsibilities:
1. Deliver project management services in line with Project Management Manual and associated processes.
2. Allocate resource via shared resource team in line with project priorities against schedule
3. Manage subcontractors and suppliers as appropriate
4. Provide input on task estimates to Engineering and Sales/Business Development teams
5. Support activities associated with improving Projects activities
6. Support the team to ensure they adhere to the company systems and processes
7. Ensure consistent and continuous communication between all relevant stakeholders
Skills required:
8. Relevant degree or equivalent work experience
9. Experience of understanding and applying contractual requirements in a technical industry environment
10. Thorough understanding of key project management competencies including cost, schedule control and risk management
11. Experience of leading and building a multi-disciplinary engineering team
12. Understanding of quality and other relevant standards
13. Ability to work with and manage resources, stakeholder and customers to address expectations in line with priorities
14. Provide relevant KPIs, information flow and reporting to demonstrate project progress
15. Experience of managing suppliers and subcontractors
16. Risk management
17. Awareness of timelines and forward planning skills
18. Basic understanding of business finance including revenue recognition and cash flow
19. Ability to work independently as well as effectively collaborate within a multicultural team
20. Ability to make good decisions under highly demanding, dynamic environment
21. Ability to manage multiple projects and prioritise workload in dynamic environment with tight deadlines
22. Competent IT skills including Microsoft software
23. Experienced user of Microsoft Project or similar software
24. Proficient in English, both verbally and written
Skills desired:
25. Passionate about continuous improvement
26. Experience in resource sharing across multiple projects
27. Knowledge of various project lifecycle processes such as waterfall, agile etc.
28. Relevant project management qualification such as APM PMQ or PPQ.
29. Previous experience working with small/medium sized companies
ABOUT AAC CLYDE SPACE
AAC Clyde Space, a leading New Space company, specialises in small satellite technologies and services that enable businesses, governments, and educational organisations to access high-quality, timely data from space. This data has a vast range of applications, from weather forecasting to precision farming to environmental monitoring, and is essential to improving our quality of life on Earth.
Our growing capabilities bring together three divisions:
30. – delivering data from space directly to customers
31. – a full range of off-the-shelf and tailor-made subsystems, components, and sensors
AAC Clyde Space aims to become a world leader in commercial small satellites and services from space, applying advances in its technology to tackle global challenges and improve our life on Earth.
Some of our clients include Horizon Technologies, Orbcomm, OHB Sweden, Intuitive Machines, Orbital Micro Systems, the United States Airforce Academy, UK Space Agency, European Space Agency and NASA.
AAC Clyde Space Group consists of the parent company AAC Clyde Space AB (publ) and subsidiaries in Sweden, the UK, the Netherlands, South Africa and the USA. Our main operations are in these five countries, with partner networks in Japan and South Korea.
AAC Clyde Space’s share is traded on the Nasdaq First North Premier Growth Market.
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