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Project Manager

Hays Specialist Recruitment LimitedPeterborough, Eastern England🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 8 Oct 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This Project Manager role offers a fantastic opportunity to lead complex engineering projects within a reputable company, with a competitive salary and flexible hybrid working arrangements. If you are an experienced engineering professional with strong organizational and stakeholder management skills, you will thrive in this dynamic environment, contributing to innovative product development from concept to release. Apply today to advance your career in a role that rewards your expertise.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Peterborough, Eastern England, United Kingdom
Posted
Yesterday
Stakeholder Management

Job Description

Market Deeping, Peterborough
Up to £75k

Monday-Friday Flex

The Opportunity:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Project Manager to join a growing engineering and product development team working on a wide range of complex and bespoke electronics and communications products. This role is ideal for an experienced engineering professional with project management experience who enjoys working across multiple departments to ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and to the highest quality standards.
Working closely with engineering, manufacturing and product teams, you will support the successful delivery of new product development projects from concept through to manufacture and release.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage & Coordinate engineering and development project activities
  • Maintain key project documentation including project plans and statements of work
  • Schedule and track project tasks, ensuring deadlines are achieved
  • Provide regular progress updates to stakeholders
  • Manage prototype and development material ordering, including PCBs and metalwork
  • Organise and facilitate project review meetings
  • Manage resource planning and project roadmap delivery

This is just a summed-up list, and other duties will be required.

Skills & Experience required:

  • A degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline
  • Project Management or Senior Project engineering experience, managing extended project life cycles
  • Previous experience within a design engineering, project engineering, or product development environment
  • Excellent organisational and communication skills
  • Strong stakeholder management experience
  • The ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously
  • A proactive and problem-solving approach

Experience or knowledge in some of the following areas would be advantageous:

  • New product development (NPD)
  • Electronics or embedded systems
  • RF, analogue or digital electronics

Interested?

Apply today to discuss this exciting Project Manager opportunity in more detail. This role would suit candidates from a Project Manager, Senior Project Engineer, Development Engineer, Design Engineer, NPI Engineer, Product Engineer, or Technical Project Coordinator background.

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