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Senior Project/Programme Manager

Cambridge
1 month ago
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Highly customised robotic automation equipment for healthcare

Do you enjoy solving problems for clients and delivering solutions that match their exact needs? Do robotics and mechanical automation excite and motivate you? Do you want to make the personalised healthcare revolution happen? Then this is the job for you!

Packed full of experts in healthcare, robotics, software, electronics and mechanics, this highly ambitious team have attracted enviable funding as they develop a new way forward for personalised healthcare. Their technologies are designed as a toolkit to be put together in unique ways to satisfy each customers requirements. In this role you will be responsible for delivering these systems, from specification to commissioning.

You will drive collaboration both with customers and across internal teams. From crafting project briefs and comprehensive delivery plans to ensuring final documentation is handed over upon successful completion you will be there every step of the way. You will need the experience and tenacity to deal with large and unforgiving customers as well as for bringing diverse technical teams together to solve problems.

Requirements:

  • Demonstrable history of successfully delivering complex programmes in the field of mechanical automation. Ideally related to the life sciences.

  • Good understanding of the complexities of delivering projects into large organisations.

  • Ability to quickly grasp and act upon complex and often technical information.

  • A strong STEM background to degree level or equivalent.

  • Good quality and risk management knowledge including ISO 9001.

    Located South of Cambridge in newly built facilities you will be joining a friendly and driven team. While a relatively new company, their strong funding has allowed them to provide competitive salaries and a strong list of benefits including private medical insurance (including dependants) and an above average salary scheme. Due to the nature of the role you will need to be on-site full-time, so no hybrid or remote work is possible.

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    Please apply (quoting ref: CV27393) only if you are eligible to live and work in the UK. By submitting your details you certify that the information you provide is accurate

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