Project Manager (New Product Introduction)

Company Overview

COME JOIN OUR JOURNEY! When you join TT, you join our global community of visionaries, creators, and achievers dedicated to engineering and manufacturing electronic solutions enabling a safer, healthier and more sustainable world. Simply put, we are a global manufacturer with a passion for engineering advanced electronics that benefit our planet and people for future generations. We are committed to having a positive impact on the world through a culture built around safety, transparency, collaboration, and positive relationships. Our teams are fuelled by performance and expertise, leading the charge in innovation, efficiency and delivering world-class customer service. Be part of the journey.

Role Overview and Responsibilities

At TT Electronics, Fairford, we're hiring for an experienced and commercially aware NPI Project Manager to lead the successful introduction of new products into manufacturing. The successful candidate will take ownership of New Product Introduction (NPI) activities, ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time and to the required quality standards. You'll play a critical role in balancing customer expectations with operational capability while supporting business growth and continuous improvement.

• Project Leadership & Delivery
  • Lead end to end NPI projects from quotation / order through to production ramp up and operational handover.
  • Develop and maintain detailed project plans, milestones, risk registers, and reporting structures.
  • Ensure projects are delivered in line with agreed scope, quality, and delivery expectations.
  • Coordinate cross functional teams including Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Commercial.
  • Escalate risks, delays, and resource constraints appropriately while proposing practical solutions.
• Customer & Stakeholder Management
  • Build strong working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
  • Lead internal project reviews, progress meetings, and status reporting.
  • Translate customer requirements into clear operational deliverables.
• Manufacturing & Operational Readiness
  • Ensure manufacturing readiness for new product launches including process validation, tooling, documentation, and operator training schedules.
  • Support the transition from prototype and development builds into serial production.
  • Work closely with Supply Chain to ensure material availability and supplier readiness.
  • Collaborate with Quality to ensure compliance with customer and regulatory requirements.
  • Monitor launch performance and coordinate corrective actions where required.
• Continuous Improvement
  • Identify opportunities to improve NPI processes, project governance, and cross functional collaboration.
  • Support lessons learned activities and drive improvements into future programmes.

Qualifications, Skills and Attributes

What we're looking for:

• Proven experience managing NPI or manufacturing projects.
• Strong understanding of project management principles and structured delivery methods.
• Experience working cross functionally within engineering and manufacturing businesses.
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to balance customer needs with operational capability.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• The ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver under pressure.
• Strong problem solving and decision-making capability.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and project planning tools.
• A PRINCE2 Practitioner/ APM PMQ qualification would enhance your application, but is not essential to apply.

What We Offer You:

From this role you will have the opportunity to develop the experience needed to explore and progress to more senior leadership roles within TT Electronics, Fairford or the wider group if this is in your own career plan. Competitive Salary, Enhanced pension contributions, Healthcare cashback plan, Employee assistance programme, Site incentive plan, Financial wellbeing benefit, Discounted online and high street shopping and lifestyle vouchers, Cycle to Work Scheme, Discounted RAC membership, Discounted Gym membership, 5 weeks (in hours) annual leave plus bank holidays, A supportive and friendly working environment with a focus on wellbeing and sustainability.

TT Electronics are committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and actively encourage applications from under-represented groups.

Our Recruitment Process:

Initially we will reach out to you for an informal conversation about the role. This will allow you the opportunity to ask questions and find out more about TT, our site and our team. It will also give us the chance to learn more about you and your experience to date. At this point both parties have the opportunity to decide if they would like to continue with the process. Please be aware that many roles at TT Electronics are subject to both security and export control restrictions which means that limitations relating to nationality may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates must achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). TT Electronics is unable to sponsor work visas for this role.

We hold Health and Safety in the highest regard at TT, with the Wellbeing of our employees our top priority. Any successful candidate will be required to successfully pass a pre-employment Drug and Alcohol Screening.

Solving Technology Challenges for a Sustainable World. We want the very best people in our TT family across the globe – so we welcome applications from everyone, to celebrate a diverse mix of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and you can rest assured that TT Electronics takes positive steps to ensure we are an inclusive business, that will welcome and support you, from your initial application to wherever your career takes you!

Please get in touch if you’d like to discuss any reasonable adjustments to your application, in order that we can accommodate and support you in the process. You can do this by emailing TTRecruitment@ttelectronics.com.

If you want to work for a company where who you are is valued and respected, we’d love to hear from you.