Senior Project Manager

About Your New Employer

• Join a leader in engineering and operational excellence with a commitment to innovation and continuous improvement.
• Work in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary environment focused on aviation, engineering, and regulated industries.
• Be part of a global organisation with a reputation for high standards in quality, safety, and employee development.
• This is a two year fixed-term contract based onsite in Shannon, Co. Clare.

About Your New Job

As the Senior Project Manager, you will:

• Lead cross-functional new product engineering and operational improvement projects, ensuring alignment across Engineering, EH&S, Maintenance, HR, Finance, Operations, and Quality.
• Prepare and present regular project updates, highlighting status, risks, opportunities, and recommendations to stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, budgets, timelines, and risk registers, ensuring all deliverables meet scope, quality, and cost requirements.
• Drive operational improvement initiatives focused on productivity, quality, cost, delivery, and KPIs.
• Facilitate problem-solving, risk mitigation, change management, and compliance activities.
• Champion Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, and continuous improvement practices, fostering an environment of innovation.
• Lead end-of-project management reviews to evaluate success and record lessons learned.
• Deputise for the Head of PMO as required and undertake other duties as assigned.

What Skills You Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 8 years of proven program/project management experience, ideally in industrial, engineering, aviation, or other regulated sectors.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organisational skills with a disciplined approach to process improvement methodologies (e.g., Lean / Six Sigma).
• Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management abilities.
• PMP, Prince2, Lean Six Sigma, or Agile certification (preferred).

What’s Next

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