Project Manager - Aerospace / Defence - #2089025

Role: Project Management Specialist

Location: Sheffield

Duration: 12 months - ongoing

Role Type: Hybrid – 3 days onsite

Salary: Depending on experience

Overview:

An opportunity to lead the delivery of a complex aerospace research and technology programme, ensuring successful execution against agreed objectives, schedules, budgets, and stakeholder requirements. Reporting to the Boeing Programme Lead, the role is responsible for managing a portfolio of projects, coordinating technical teams and external partners, and ensuring programme commitments are delivered in line with contractual, organisational, and government expectations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead projects from initiation through to completion, ensuring delivery against agreed scope, schedule, budget, and performance objectives.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, milestones, resource allocations, and delivery schedules in collaboration with Project Controllers and key stakeholders.
• Monitor programme budgets, forecasts, and expenditure to ensure effective financial management and cost control.
• Identify, assess, and manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and opportunities, implementing appropriate mitigation and escalation strategies where required.
• Support engineering and technical teams to ensure research activities, technical deliverables, and programme milestones are achieved in accordance with agreed requirements.
• Coordinate procurement and subcontract activities, working closely with technical leads, Supply Chain, Commercial, and Business Support teams.
• Lead multidisciplinary project teams and consortium partners, fostering collaboration, communication, and high-performance delivery.
• Manage project governance activities, including reporting, documentation, change control, meeting management, and stakeholder communications.
• Produce and deliver high-quality programme reports and updates to internal leadership, consortium partners, and UK Government stakeholders.
• Coordinate multiple interrelated projects to ensure alignment with strategic objectives, schedules, and programme requirements.
• Monitor project performance through key execution metrics, ensuring timely corrective action where required.
• Escalate programme risks, issues, and delivery concerns to senior leadership in a proactive and timely manner.
• Ensure compliance with applicable governance frameworks, documentation standards, ethical requirements, and Boeing policies.

Key Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience managing complex engineering, research, or technical programmes from initiation through to delivery.
• Strong project planning, scheduling, budgeting, forecasting, and financial management capabilities.
• Experience managing government-funded programmes and delivering formal reporting to government organisations and stakeholders.
• Excellent risk, issue, and opportunity management skills.
• Strong stakeholder management abilities, with experience engaging technical teams, senior leadership, external partners, and customers.
• Experience coordinating multiple projects within a portfolio environment to achieve wider strategic objectives.
• Ability to translate technical progress into measurable project outcomes, milestones, and deliverables.
• Knowledge of procurement, subcontract management, and commercial processes.
• Strong leadership, communication, team management, and conflict resolution skills.
• Experience working within regulated environments and adhering to governance, compliance, and documentation requirements.

Preferred Background:

• Degree qualified in Engineering, Project Management, Science, or a related discipline.
• Professional Project Management qualification such as PRINCE2 Practitioner or PMP.
• Previous experience within aerospace, defence, advanced engineering, or complex R&D programmes.
• Experience working with UK Government departments, Innovate UK (IUK), ATI, or other publicly funded programmes.
• Eligible to obtain relevant security clearance.