Project Manager

Your role

An exciting oppportunity has arisen for a Project Manager to join the Edwards team based at Product Company Eastbourne. 

As a Project Manager, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering our New Product Introduction (NPI) projects. You’ll lead on project scheduling, budgeting, and execution to ensure that new products are delivered to the Product Company on time and within agreed resources. Working closely with a cross‑functional team and the NPI Manager, you will coordinate activities throughout the full PCP process to bring innovative products to market. You will report directly to the NPI Manager and help drive successful project outcomes from concept through to release.

You will:

• Monitor project progress and KPIs. Report on KPIs, project highlights, risks and issues as well as project changes to the site/Divisional Management Committee. Ensure risks are managed appropriately by time-bound mitigation plans and documented rationale where calculated risks are taken
• Work with divisional stakeholders and the NPI manager to develop business cases at the feasibility stage, agreeing initial specifications with marketing and technical teams and working with the NPI Manager to produce preliminary project, resource, and cost plans to present proposals for approval at site/Division PCM Committee
• Foster good communication and collaboration between engineering and operations teams at Eastbourne PC as well as between teams at remote PC sites and other divisional departments. Establish project steering boards and ensure smooth handovers to production, anticipating any challenges when the product reaches volume production
  
• Identify and address gaps in expectations between the project team and stakeholders. Manage change effectively, ensuring clear documentation to support later audits. Adopt a mindset of continuous reflection when projects do not necessarily go to plan and put in place strategies to avoid repeats where there have been negative consequences. 
• Ensure quality and reliability analyses—including DFMEA and PFMEA where relevant—are completed. Work with quality and reliability stakeholders to ensure projects align with established processes and long‑term targets defined in the annual OGSM.
• Establish a clear test strategy early in the project lifecycle, ensuring alignment between the NPI team and Operations. Communicate test expectations and define the level of testing required before advancing through gate milestones
• Lead the project lifecycle up to Gate 6 in the PCP process, after which ownership transitions to the Eastbourne PC Technical Support Team once acceptable FTTFR performance has been achieved and sufficient training has been provided for the Technical Support Team to support the product independently.

To succeed, you will need

We encourage applications from individuals with a wide range of experiences. Even if you don’t meet every listed requirement, we’d still love to hear from you—diverse perspectives strengthen our team. 

• Experience in an electronics manufacturing environment and in regulated industries.
• Recognised project management qualification (PMP, APMP, or PRINCE2)
• Experience with Requirements Management tools, ideally JAMA
• Engineering degree or equivalent experience
• At least 2 years’ experience as a Project Manager in electronics development, with the ability to plan, deliver, and prioritise complex, multi‑disciplinary projects
• Experience with both Waterfall and Agile/SCRUM methodologies, including managing software and electronics-based projects
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively across global, cross‑functional teams and communicate at all organisational levels
• Confident user of Microsoft Project, with the ability to provide clear progress reporting to senior management.

In return, we offer

• Culture of trust and accountability
• Lifelong learning and career growth
• Innovation powered by people
• Comprehensive compensation and benefits
• Health and well-being

Job location

On-Site
This role requires you to work on-site at our office in Eastbourne, United Kingdom (GB). You will be part of a dynamic team and enjoy the benefits of face-to-face collaboration. 

There will be some need to travel to other Vacuum Technique sites and key suppliers as well occasional customer facing travel. There will be some need to travel to other Vacuum Technique sites and key suppliers as well occasional customer facing travel.

Flexible working arrangements and part-time hours will be considered.

Contact information

 Talent Acquisition Team: Harriet Slater

Our recruitment process consists of a two-stage interview process:

Stage 1 – Technical Interview: focusing on assessing your technical skills, experience, and role‑specific capability. 

Stage 2 – Cultural Interview: for candidates successful at Stage 1, exploring alignment with our organisational culture and cultural behaviours, which guide how we work and collaborate as an organisation:

At Atlas Copco Group, we… 

Act with Accountability

…to seize opportunities and keep our commitments, using our empowerment to address challenges, raise red flags, and deliver results.

Act with Respect

…to welcome and understand diverse perspectives, foster inclusion, strengthen interactions, and achieve success together.

Act with Curiosity

…to understand our business and customer needs, embrace new challenges, apply a growth mindset and continuously learn.

Act Experimentally

…to discover new solutions, learn from our mistakes and drive innovation – believing there is always a better way.

Act Collaboratively

…to make informed, transparent, and sustainable decisions, building on our collective skills, experiences and knowledge.

Technical interviews will take place week commencing 16th March at Eastbourne PC.