THE OPPORTUNITY:

Now is the time to join MPG’s Research And Development team! Maximising our exceptional  engineering talent, knowledge and skills from across our OpCo’s and with the appointment of a Chief Technical Officer and 4 Chief Engineers,

our roadmaps are driving us to deliver both tomorrow’s products today and, for those new products to provide our long-term significant growth opportunities.  To this end, we’re recruiting for a newly created role leading the successful

implementation of R&D technical projects (on-time, in-full, to budget) through co-ordinating assigned engineers  (including cross-site teams) to deliver end to end project delivery requirements - RESEARCH AND PROJECT MANAGER.

Working closely with the MPG Chief Technical Officer, Chief Engineers and Engineering Managers across MPG, you’ll use your outstanding influencing, engagement and co-ordination skills  to identify resources, program tasks and delivery criteria, that you’ll consistently and successfully meet.  Other responsibilities include:

• Key project customer contact with internal/external customers and project participants.
• Preparing regular progress reports, documentation, and communication updates.
• Organising and chair Technical Reviews enabling full review and agreed action outcomes.
• Developing, settting, maintaining and communicating engineering quality standards, systems, processes and documentation delivering consistency as standard.

To be successful you’ll have/are:

• Multi-discipline experience in an engineering role.
• Implementation and management of multiple, concurrent projects, throughout a project lifecycle. Developing and maintain customer relationships, managing expectations and resolving issues.
• Managing assigned reports to achieve required goals.
• Working to and delivering against engineering, quality and customer standards.
• Organising and contributing to  technical reviews and discussions.
• UK or Nato national with right to work in the UK with required security clearance.
• Prepared to adjust working day to accommodate global time-frames enabling cross-site discussions. (American east-west coast.)