About Us

Cerulean is a leading organisation headquartered in Milton Keynes, UK.

For nearly 80 years Cerulean has been proud to be a key player offering a wide range of products built for meeting our customer’s needs across a number of industries including: Tobacco, Pharma & Healthcare, Personal Care, and Food.
We specialise in the manufacturing of quality control instrumentation, precision test measurement equipment and tube packing solutions.
Our business portfolio encompasses a wide range of innovative solutions and we strive to continuously expand our offerings and enhance our capabilities to meet the evolving needs of our customers.

For more detailed information about Cerulean and its comprehensive business landscape, please visit www.cerulean.com.

Cerulean is part of Coesia, a group of innovation-based industrial and packaging solutions companies operating globally, headquartered in Bologna, Italy. Coesia operates in 36 countries with 20 different companies and employs over 8,000 people as of 2023.

About the Role

We are seeking an engaged and comitted Project Manager to join our Development Engineering team. Reporting to the Development and Innovations manager, the right candidate will work in partnership with multiple stakeholders across the business, including Product Managers, Sales Managers, and Engineering Team Managers to manage projects from the point of inception to delivery into Production. You’ll also manage external stakeholders, working closely with suppliers and contractors. Projects can range from small incremental improvements on existing products to complete design and introduction of new products and technologies. There is a substantial element of prototyping and proof-of-concept machines or experiments that require an inquisitive and agile approach focused on the effective use of resources.

Main Responsibilities

• Managing product development projects from initial project inception to operational deployment in line with business strategy and requirements.
• Guiding multi-disciplined teams to deliver innovative engineering solutions for laboratory and process equipment for regulated industries.
• Ensuring that projects are managed within scope and budget against realistic time targets that are defined and agreed.
• Managing team members as assigned in a matrix capacity in a participative management style to optimise performance.

Selecting and managing suppliers and sub-contractors as necessary in conjunction with the Functional Team Managers, ensuring they perform to the required standard.

• Coordinating the creation of project deliverables from the Functional Teams and directing these to effective project milestones.
• Analysing and identify project risks and develop mitigation strategies to eliminate or minimise risks of not meeting objectives.
• Identifying and planning tasks and resources necessary to complete the product development.
• Leading the project team to ensure tasks are completed to schedule and deliver the expected outcomes
• Acting as the central focus point for liaison with Service, Manufacturing, Sales, Suppliers and Customers.
• Ensure there is an appropriate communication plan in place for each project phase to ensure the necessary stakeholders are included and actions completed.
• Advising the project sponsors of (technical & commercial) project risks and resource conflicts before commencement and throughout the duration of the project lifecycle.
• Supporting the Project Management Supervisor with on-going continuous improvements to Project Management processes and tools to drive up Project Management capability within the business.
• Encourage a structured approach to project delivery using a suite of tools including formal Design and Gate Reviews, scheduling and time booking authorisation applications.
• Identifying and communicating to the wider team the importance of commercial matters as they impact projects under your control.
• To participate in creating technical specifications from user requirements. Provide monthly project reports for the senior management team. Participate in meetings with customers to support other stakeholders. Manage communications with customers for collaborative projects.

What You Need to Be Successful

• Qualified to degree level in electrical/electronic/robotic engineering or mechatronics
• Qualified project manager with strong PM principles
• Strong leadership skills in managing personnel in a matrix organisation
• Problem solving & lateral thinking skills
• Good verbal and written communication skills appropriate to a highly technical environment
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in an end-to-end Project manager role

Our Offer

• Competitive salary
• 25 days holiday plus public holidays, increasing with service
• Company pension, matched contribution up to 7.5%
• Company Bonus scheme
• Health cash plan to contribute towards health care costs such as dentist, optician and prescriptions for employee and their dependants
• 4 x salary life insurance
• Income protection insurance for use in the event of a long-term illness
• Staff discounts scheme with discounts and cashback offers at many retailers including some supermarkets
• Social club
• Hybrid working
• Free parking & Electric car charging on site

Join the Team!

This is a permanent, full-time position. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Siri Taripanah at siri.taripanah@flexlink.com

External agencies are kindly requested not to contact the company regarding this position.

Coesia is an equal-opportunity employer and embraces diversity and inclusion.

Job Reference: CGS12271

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent