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Job Purpose
The Project Manager works closely with the Product Manager, Technical Lead and engineering team and manages engineering projects from conception through to final delivery to ensure quality, on-spec, on-time delivery of products. Responsibilities include driving and monitoring the project, planning, scheduling, issue/risk management as well as management of project stakeholders and dependencies and communication to external partners.

The role will involve managing multiple engineering projects, which may include processor designs or system components. There will be close links with teams in UK, US, Europe and India, requiring regular communication and occasional travel.

Job Requirements
* Engineering degree or equivalent
* Proven ability to take ownership, lead, monitor and motivate a team.
* Experience of applying project management in a rapidly changing Embedded software or hardware development environment
* Demonstrated ability in building plans from a high level to a detailed schedule
* Experience liaising with customers, partners and remote development teams
* Clear understanding of, and ability to apply the concepts of risk management
* Able to manage stakeholders through personal leadership and clear project goals
* First class communications skills, both written and verbal
* Self motivated, looking to accept new challenges
* Professional attitude, with strong attention to detail
* Pro-active and pragmatic with regards to problem solving
* Willing to travel on occasional basis

Desirable Skills & Experience
* Formal project management qualification (eg PMP)
* Familiar with project scheduling tools such as Microsoft Project
* Experience of silicon hardware development
* Comfortable with configuration methods, versioning and documentation tools
* Understanding of a range of hardware and software development life cycle methods (eg, waterfall, iterative, agile)

CPS Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.