The applicant will have experience with composite materials in the Aerospace /Space industry. Will need experience with airframes. This person will probably be working at Production Manager/Manufacturing Manager level. They will be coordinating the work of a small team of mechanical technicians (circa 4 - 5). They will report any slippages in the project to the project manager, liaise with the shop floor to find out if there are any problems etc and report back to the PM. They will also need to control schedules and costs and report this back to the PM. They should be familiar with following quality processes & procedures and conducting FMEA's

Qualifications and / or Skills:
Essential: As a minimum all candidates shall have an HNC or equivalent in an engineering discipline
Proven Leadership role with proven competencies in;
Implement quality management
Project start-up & Initiation
Planning and control; input management and proactive maintenance of schedule compliance
Project review/evaluation
Risk Management
Project closure, handover and succession planning
Interpersonal skills; assertion, persuasion and influencing skills.
Proactive and honest engagement of customers and other stakeholders; managing expectations to line up with deliverability, ensuring satisfaction in order to pave the way for future business.
Establishing an environment that encourages co-operation, collaboration, debate and communication between stakeholders through openness and transparency.
Develop strong relationships with the customers and subcontractors to ensure they are meeting their commitments to your project.
Driving towards integration of functionality.
Service Level agreements
Requirements management
Managing people through change
Performance management
Create/lead a multi disciplined project team
Configuration management
Procurement management
Health, safety and environment
Complying with regulatory requirements
Experience of dealing with the end customers and major prime contractors.
Harmonisation of policies, standards, procedures, processes across projects ensuring consistent delivery at the highest levels of quality and capability.

Candidate must have excellent communication - verbal, written and presentational skills; be commercially astute, a team player, have excellent time management skills, leadership skills, resilient, tenacious, innovative and proactive problem solver, self motivated and be able to deliver projects to agreed budget and schedule.
Outline Job Profile:
Reporting to the project manager and the C-AIT Stevenage programmes manager you will be responsible for the management of an AIT project team defining roles and responsibilities.
Duties will include;
Production of detailed project management plans identifying project activities, milestones, resource requirements, earned value metrics and