Project Manager

Edwards Vacuum


Date: 2 hours ago
City: Burgess Hill
Contract type: Full time
Role Purpose

To accelerate the delivery of complex engineering system projects within the Emerging Technologies team by providing structured project management, clear communication, risk control, and delivery-focused coordination across design, procurement, build, and stakeholder activities.

Your day-to-day

  • Identify, assess, escalate, and manage project risks and issues to protect delivery commitments and enable timely decision-making.
  • Develop and maintain integrated project plans, including Gantt charts, milestones, dependencies, resource assumptions, and critical path visibility.
  • Lead project delivery cadence for complex system design and build activities, ensuring work packages are clearly defined, prioritised, and progressed.
  • Coordinate cross-functional design sprints and project reviews, capturing actions, decisions, risks, issues, and next steps.
  • Support procurement activity by tracking component requirements, supplier inputs, purchase status, lead times, and delivery constraints.
  • Define system build work packages for technicians and ensure build priorities are clearly communicated.
  • Communicate project status clearly to internal stakeholders, highlighting progress, blockers, decisions required, and forecast delivery impacts.

Your Skills And Experience

  • Recognised engineering qualification, or equivalent relevant experience.
  • Recognised project management qualification, or equivalent relevant experience.
  • 3D CAD design experience.
  • Experience managing complex engineering system design and delivery activities.
  • Working knowledge of engineering processes and documentation, including ECNs, BOMs, SOPs, technical drawings, and build documentation.
  • Ability to use project planning tools to manage schedules, dependencies, actions, risks, and reporting.
  • Minimum of three years’ engineering and/or project management experience.

We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. We value diverse experiences and perspectives and are excited to see what you bring to the role.

Your location

The role is based at our GTC site in Burgess Hill, and will require occasional travel to other Edwards sites.

Application process

Our selection process includes interviews and, for some roles, skills assessments that help us gain a deeper understanding of your profile. We look forward to getting to know you, learning about your strengths, and discussing how you can grow with us.

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