Senior Project Manager

We’re building something powerful. Let’s build it together.

We've delivered high-performance embedded computing solutions for four decades across industries including defence, telecoms, and aerospace.
We’re proud to be experts in what we do and are looking for more brilliant people to join our team.

The Senior Project Manager is a key leadership role responsible for delivering complex customer and internal product development projects from bid through to successful delivery. Reporting to the Programme Manager, you will lead cross-functional teams, manage stakeholder relationships, and act as the bridge between strategic objectives and project execution. This role requires a proactive, adaptable leader who can balance innovation, customer success, and business performance while making a significant impact on project delivery and organisational growth.

• Align project outcomes with business objectives, ensuring all activities support strategic goals, customer requirements, commercial targets, and long-term business growth.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders to ensure expectations are understood and achieved.
• Leading and motivating cross-functional project teams, providing clear direction, accountability, and support throughout the project lifecycle.
• Forecasting and managing project resource requirements to ensure appropriate skills and capacity are available to meet delivery commitments.
• Developing, maintaining, and reporting detailed project schedules using MS Project, ensuring milestones, dependencies, and critical paths are effectively managed.
• Managing project budgets, cost forecasting, and financial performance to maximise revenue, cash flow, and profitability.
• Identifying, assessing, and managing project risks and issues, implementing effective mitigation and contingency plans to minimise impact on delivery.
• Managing internal and customer-driven change requests, ensuring scope, cost, schedule, and quality impacts are assessed and controlled.
• Ensuring all projects are delivered in compliance with contractual requirements, regulatory obligations, company processes, and quality standards.
• Managing the full engineering project lifecycle, from opportunity assessment and bid support through development, verification, validation, and delivery, following Concurrent's structured stage-gate review process.
• Provide mentoring and coaching to less experienced Project Managers, supporting their professional development, sharing best practice, and contributing to the overall capability and maturity of the project management function.

Essential knowledge & experience:

• Proven track record of successfully managing engineering projects from conception to delivery, ensuring maximum revenue.
• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies and software
• Good understanding of project management in relation to engineering, specifically in electronics/software/systems.
• Demonstrated experience in cost and risk management.
• Excellent customer and stakeholder management skills

• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Project
• BEng/MEng/MSc in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering or similar/equivalent discipline

This is an exciting opportunity to shape cutting-edge technology and drive complex projects from idea to delivery. You'll be empowered to influence how things are done, work across all levels of the business, and develop your career in a collaborative environment that grows and succeeds together.

• 25 days holidays + bank holidays and holiday purchase scheme.
• Annual profit share bonus.
• Cycle to work, Home & Tech and car salary sacrifice schemes.
• Death in service benefit & income protection.
• Employee assistance programme and virtual GP.
• Employee referral scheme.
• Enhanced parental leave.
• Generous company pension scheme with up to 10% employer contribution.
• One paid volunteering day per year.
• Private Health Insurance through Bupa.
• YuLife wellbeing app.

We are an equal opportunity employer and…