Key Responsibilities:
- Create the project identification and planning documentation for the various work streams as per quality gates for vehicle development & its life cycle
- Receive proposed work scope and deliverables and prepare consequent proposals for timing plan and budget
- Agree the tasks required to complete each deliverable and what material will be produced to support each deliverable
- Challenge and balance inputs to create optimized proposal for project plan and budget
- Communicate initiation of the project and kick-off all required project activities in project team
- Record relevant information on appropriate project control documentation
- Update key information (work scope, deliverables, timing plan and budget) if necessary based on agreement reached with all team members
- Control and communicate status of deliverables and related tasks, project timings versus plan, project expenditure (external spend and hours) versus budget, and balance resources within the overall project limits where possible
- Communicate percentage completeness of ‘in-progress’ tasks and deliverables versus targets, each measure to be summarised by deliverables and by whole project. Quality assess projects where they run across quarters
- Review any requests for change to project scope and determine, with support from the project team, the consequent changes to project
- Record agreed changes to project scope on appropriate project control documentation
- Raise flag & escalate issues to management where a resolution cannot be found within the project
- Provide feedback to project team of agreed changes
- Run and chair project meetings as necessary for the smooth operation of the project
- Ensure that appropriate evidence of materials provided is recorded on the appropriate project control documentation
- Communicate project closure to the project team and instruct Finance to close the project as per company systems & procedures
- Record the project closure on appropriate project control documentation
- Prepare end of project report detailing the performance of the project against the important measures of timing, resource and cost, and append this report to the appropriate project control documentation
- Lead and document an appropriate ‘Lessons Learned’ review, appending the report to the appropriate project control documentation
- Long range planning
- Provide technical expertise to multiple projects and budgets
- Advance engineering principles, theories and concepts
- Manage activities of a complex nature where there may be no precedents available
- Keep up with current and developing manufacturing and engineering trends regarding maintenance / tool making
