MEGGITT AVIONICS
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Job Title: Project Manager
Competency
area
Essential
Desirable
Job Related
Experience
Planning and control
Familiarity with at least some of the following project management techniques such as:
Work breakdown structures (WBS)
Organisational breakdown structures (OBS)
Cost breakdown structures (CBS)
Earned value measurement
Preparation of network programme plans
Stakeholder analysis
Risk Management
Familiarity with risk management techniques
Experience of implementing risk mitigation plans within time and cost constraints
An understanding of how to produce a strategy for managing problems when they occur
Able to rank and manage the issues that arise
Time management
- Ability to demonstrate time management skills
- Can demonstrate on-going ability to meet fixed timescales for delivery of goals and
objectives
- Can show flexibility if there is slippage on projects, to minimise the problem
- Can work on a number of projects at the same time
Planning and Control
Competent in preparing
WBS/OBS/CBS and project plans
and maintaining these using project
management software tools
Experience with Earned Value
methodologies
Familiarity with Project
Management methodologies that
employ gate/phase reviews at key
points within the project
Competence in the use of Microsoft
Project
To contribute to the further
development of project
management processes within the
company
To have a vision for improving
processes and systems
Risk management
- Experience of managing a risk
management process
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Business
Skills
Customer focus
- Focused on customer support
- Aware of customer requirements and can schedule work in accordance with this
- Able to build customer relationships
- Experience of keeping customers informed of progress
- Able to exercise judgement in managing customer relationships and expectations
Influencing and leadership
- Experience of leading meetings and agreeing actions with peers
- Good influencing and listening skills
- Able to command respect
- Able to encourage people to work together
- Able to get people to come up with their own solutions and to own these
- Able to vary style as appropriate
- Good facilitation skills
- Able to show resilience in the face of criticism
Decision making
- A mix of approaches in making decisions, so that they are made at an appropriate speed
- Ability to judge the appropriate decision in given circumstances
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Customer focus
- Experience of visiting customers
on site
- Able to maximise opportunities for
follow-on business by
understanding how we can further
help customers to our mutual
benefit
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Personal
Skills
Communication
- Ability to communicate effectively on technical and programme issues to Senior Management,
peers and project team members via written reports, formal presentations, briefings and
workshops and in one to one contacts
- Able to read, understand and interpret customer enquiries, requests for proposals and
quotations
- Good two-way verbal communicator
- Experience of working with customers, suppliers and other company departments especially
sales and marketing
- Can communicate with different levels of staff
- Experience of report and proposal writing
- Experience of word processing, spreadsheets, presentation packages, web browsers and
email
Team work
- Experience of cross functional teams
- Experience of matrix management
Business
Awareness
Communication
-
Ability to communicate, and to
manage activities using Microsoft
Office, Word, PowerPoint, Excel,
Outlook
Team work
Experience of leading small teams
of peers.
Experience of managing and
developing staff
Learning and development
Evidence of CPD
Interest in learning new skills
Used to working with other disciplines to solve problems
Commercial and financial awareness with respect to
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Understanding the implications of common terms and conditions on the way in which
programmes are managed and
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In being comfortable with working within budgets and expressing estimates to complete
in monetary terms.
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Aware of the current trends and issues
within civil and military aerospace.
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Qualifications
and
Experience
HND/degree or equivalent in either electronics or software engineering and proven management of
multidisciplinary teams
Plus
Experience in either the aerospace industry Or of the development of bespoke equipment
incorporating electronics and embedded software in another industry.
Or
In depth and proven project management experience and proven management of multidisciplinary
teams
Formal project management training
such as a diploma, an OU module or incompany training.
Extensive experience in the aerospace
industry
Knowledge of aircraft systems - air
data, flight displays, navigation
displays.
Plus
Experience in either the aerospace industry Or of the development of bespoke equipment
incorporating electronics and embedded software in another industry.
Other
Willingness and availability to travel as required to customer and supplier locations anywhere in the
world – typically overseas travel could be for 1 week of the order of 4 occasions per year. UK driving
licence.
File Ref: Project Manager/PS
Date: 08/08
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