Senior Project Manager

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Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.​

We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.

Job Description

Company overview

Teledyne is devoted to advancing science, acquiring and inventing new technology, and using it to help our customers solve challenges in business and society.  Teledyne serves an immense range of applications, providing technologies vital to industrial growth markets.

Role overview

We have an exciting opportunity for an established Senior Project Manager to work within a Teledyne Defence business based in Lincoln and Shipley.  Using proprietary technology, the business develops, supplies and services Microwave RF components and sub systems within a wide range of defence and security applications.  The growth of this business is dependent upon a dynamic resource base for the development of new products and technologies for mid-to-long term success.

This is a key role within a team delivering high profile complex projects.  The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate industry standard best practice, effective deployment of project management principles, and have a track record in successful project delivery.

As the Senior Project Manager you will act as a relationship manager between the various disciplines within the organisation, the customer, and a wider team across multiple sites.  You will require strong leadership to bring together key milestones across multiple projects whilst factoring the same resources.  Travel will be required along with the need to be present for customer meetings, sometime outside of core hours.

What you'll be involved in:

• Achieve a high performance in project delivery that is better than agreed budgetary and time constraints, and that attains 100% OTIF whenever possible.

• Accurate reporting and budget forecasting of project delivery, along with detailed revenue projections.

• Manage project uncertainty through risk planning, establishing appropriate risk mitigation plans and effective escalation.

• Maintaining good effective relationships with customers and key stakeholders to ensure all expectations and outcomes are met.

• Using PM best practice to deploy effective tools and create challenging detailed plans to ensure success.

• Be a key member of the team, championing improvements for project management. You will also be required to mentor and lead others within your immediate team.

• Champion NPI within the Operations teams.

What we're looking for in you:

• Demonstrated project management experience of high value critically dependent projects.

• Experience of managing projects through product/system lifecycle.

• Practiced in managing multiple technical, engineering or science projects, and often presenting ambiguous situations.

• Experienced with high profile and demanding customers.

• A relevant professional project management qualification with at least 5 years professional experience

• Knowledge of EPM tools, preferably SAP S4 and/or XA.

Company Benefits

As part of the wider Teledyne UK group, we also offer our employees a range of company benefits that include:

• Salary sacrifice-led pension plan that matches employee contributions up to 6%.

• 25 days holiday per annum, plus bank holidays.

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Salary sacrifice Electric/Hybrid Vehicle car scheme.

• Medicash – everyday healthcare assistance.

• Free life assurance cover at the value of four times basic annual salary.

• Holiday purchase scheme which enables employees to purchase an additional week’s worth of annual leave each year.

• Internal reward and recognition scheme linked to internal benefits platform.

• Employee Assistance Programme. 

• Comprehensive wellbeing programme that supports employees with their physical, mental and financial health, as well as their cultural/environmental wellbeing.

• Competitive employee discounts platform that provides employees with discounts with leading brands/retailers.

• Cycle to Work scheme.

• Enhanced family-friendly benefits and policies.

• Company sick pay. 

• Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Committee that supports and champions employee diversity.

Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.

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