Project Manager - Sustaining

Your role as a Project Manager - Sustaining is to define and deliver the sustaining engineering project portfolio for PCC, setting clear project strategies, plans, and governance to protect product availability, performance, and profitability throughout the lifecycle. The role leads cross-functional projects including obsolescence management, cost reduction/value engineering, and product support improvements, ensuring robust scope definition, stakeholder alignment, risk management, and on-time delivery of agreed outcomes. You will report to a Technical Manager.

You will:

• Own the sustaining engineering project portfolio (including obsolescence and cost reduction), translating business and technical needs into a prioritised roadmap with clear objectives, scope, and success measures.
• Develop and maintain integrated plans (schedule, resources, dependencies) and lead execution from initiation through implementation, ensuring on-time delivery and controlled scope.
• Establish and run project governance including cadence, reporting, decision logs, and escalation routes; maintain RAID and communicate status transparently.
• Lead cross-functional obsolescence projects (electrical, mechanical, software/firmware, supplier, compliance), ensuring continuity of supply and support across the product lifecycle.
• Define and drive cost reduction project strategy, identifying and prioritising opportunities (BOM, labour, supplier, test/verification, manufacturing yield) while protecting performance, reliability, and compliance.
• Engage and influence stakeholders across PCC, divisions, and external suppliers to align priorities, secure resources, and resolve conflicts.
• Improve sustaining project delivery by developing and embedding standard ways of working, templates, and lessons learned to increase predictability and throughput.

To succeed, you will need:

• Recognised Project Management qualification (e.g. APM PMQ, PRINCE2) or equivalent experience (Essential).
• Educated to Degree level in an Engineering/Science discipline or equivalent relevant experience (Desirable).
• Training in continuous improvement/value engineering (e.g. Lean, Six Sigma) (Desirable).
• Experience managing cross-functional engineering projects end-to-end (scope, schedule, cost, risk) (Essential).
• Experience working in sustaining engineering / product lifecycle environments, including change control and release practices (Essential).
• Demonstrated delivery of obsolescence mitigation and/or supplier change projects (Desirable).
• Strong planning, prioritisation and governance skills; able to build and maintain robust project plans and drive actions to closure (Essential).
• Skilled in risk management (RAID), dependency management and structured problem solving (Essential).
• Commercial awareness; able to articulate trade-offs between cost, risk, schedule, and technical performance (Essential).
• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation and negotiation skills across multiple organisational levels (Essential).

In return, we offer:

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

Job location: This role offers a hybrid working arrangement, allowing you to split your time between working remotely and being on-site at our office in Bristol, United Kingdom (GB).

About Edwards: Edwards is a leading developer and manufacturer of sophisticated vacuum products, exhaust management systems and related value-added services. Edwards solutions are integral to manufacturing processes for semiconductors, flat panel displays, LEDs and solar cells. They are also used within an increasingly diverse range of industrial processes including power, glass and other coating applications; steel and other metallurgy; pharmaceutical and chemical; and for scientific instruments in a wide range of R&D applications. Edwards has over 4,000 employees worldwide engaged in the design, manufacture and support of high technology vacuum and exhaust management equipment. Edwards has state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Europe, Asia and North America.