Project Officer

Our client, a trusted partner of the UK's Ministry of Defence, is looking for an experienced Project Officer to join their manufacturing project teams. In this role, the Project Officer will be responsible for delivering missiles and test equipment throughout their product life cycles, ensuring adherence to establish the project control methodologies. This position involves supporting a variety of deliverables across multiple manufacturing task areas, offering a valuable opportunity for career advancement within the project management field.

As a Project Officer, you will be expected to support various projects and sites as needed. You will assist the Heads of Manufacturing and Production Project Managers in delivering tasks, including:

Key Responsibilities:

Analyse and report manufacturing and materials data using SAP
Create and maintain Excel-based manufacturing performance reports
Produce clear PowerPoint briefing materials for project and management reviews
Support project teams with data analysis, reporting, and decision-making
Interpret and utilise Power BI dashboards at an awareness level
What do you need?:

Strong understanding of how manufacturing data underpins cost, schedule, quality, and on‑time delivery in a project environment.
Experienced in extracting, cleansing, and analysing data from project/manufacturing systems (e.g., Primavera/MS Project, ARM, JIRA, SAP).
Able to convert complex manufacturing/materials data into clear insights, structured reports, and management‑ready dashboards.
Advanced Excel capability for building, maintaining, and analysing reports using formulas, tables, and core data techniques.
Confident producing professional PowerPoint briefings for project reviews, governance, and leadership updates.
Awareness‑level Power BI knowledge, with the ability to interpret and utilise existing dashboards for performance monitoring.
Highly detail‑focused with a disciplined approach to data integrity, validation, and reporting accuracy.
Strong communicator, able to present data‑driven findings clearly to cross‑functional stakeholders.
Proactive and well‑organised, able to manage multiple reporting streams and deliver to deadlines.
Security Clearance:
British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship
Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by our clients Security Team.

More about the role:
For more than 70 years, our client has been in a strong partnership with the UK military. They have accomplished numerous milestones in defence engineering and have provided essential defence capabilities to meet the requirements of the armed forces across land, sea, and air.

This job is at our client's site in Bolton facility, one of the North West's leading manufacturing sites for at least 25 years. The facility offers showers and bike racks and is near the motorway, with a petrol station outside. Amenities like an onsite canteen.

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