About the Role

We are looking for an exceptional, flexible and enthusiastic Project Manager to work with our world-class R&D team.

This is a highly collaborative role, responsible for running fast-paced projects from inception to delivery, liaising with customers and partners, coordinating activities within the business across a multi-disciplinary team, planning and directing the project, monitoring and reporting on progress.

What is in my remit?

• Planning, executing and delivering projects according to agreed timelines and budget
• Creating execution plans, to include schedule, costs, resourcing, milestones, and dependencies
• Monitoring, tracking and reporting on progress against the plan
• Risk and issue management
• Coordinating cross-team activities and tracking dependencies
• Liaising with technical leads and engineering staff to ensure effective and efficient project delivery
• Follow a robust product development process to take projects from feasibility to delivery
• Working across the organisation with Executive team, Commercial, Customer Support, Product Marketing, customers and partners as appropriate

About You

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Bachelors or Masters degree or equivalent work experience, and 10+ years in a relevant technical field
• Direct experience in the project management or technical leadership of dynamic and complex, multi-disciplinary projects, through all phases of product development
• Strong familiarity with project management software, plus agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Experience in managing relationships with customers and stakeholders
• Good organisational skills, communication skills and problem-solving ability

Personal Aptitudes

• Able to lead, manage, motivate and develop a team effectively
• Able to effectively prioritise and execute tasks in a high pressure environment
• Able to interact effectively and confidentially across a broad range of stakeholders from customers and other external bodies and all internal stakeholders
• Able to make sound decisions based on all information available and the restraints of resource and budget
• Resourceful, innovative and able to think through problems
• Empowers others to make decisions and provides a supportive framework in which their team or colleagues can be challenged and developed effectively
• Can demonstrate continuous improvement and development of their skills and professional understanding
• Able to demonstrate quality standards through own and others work

About The Team

The Engineering team at Blu Wireless covers System Architecture, Radio Systems, DSP, Platforms: mechanical and digital design, Software Development and System Test.

We have a dedicated Customer Engineering team to undertake pre-sales engagements, and support customers as they adopt our products.

Our Operations group work with 3rd party contract manufacturers around the world to procure and deliver the systems and components we need.

Who are we?

We are disrupting the market with our ultra-fast and seamless mmWave wireless system solutions.  We are committed to developing cutting-edge network technology that helps set our customer apart as market leaders and innovators.

From our Global HQ in Bristol, we are leading a new era of high-speed connectivity.  We utilise mmWave frequencies to generate cost-effective, reliable, and ultra-fast wireless networks.

Our unique mmWave solutions are engineered for emerging connectivity needs – from smart city networks to connected vehicles.  We work together with integrators, manufacturers, and service providers to deliver the superior speeds of connectivity needed for the data-intensive applications of the future.  That’s why we’re trusted partners of the world’s biggest names in telecoms and technology.

Recognition and Respect

We recognise, respect, and choose to employ people with different perspectives and experiences, because we know that this makes us a stronger and better organisation.  We are working hard to eliminate any barriers so that everyone has equal opportunity for advancement.  It isn’t always easy, but we are striving to create an environment which accepts, respects, and harnesses the impact of different ideas, experiences and perspectives to deliver greater value.

Hybrid Working

We encourage our team to be physically present in our office at certain times of the week.  This is because we value the improve collaborative working and learning opportunities that this allows.  We are a team of experts, so debating and sharing knowledge is a central part or our working culture and community spirt.  We also recognise the benefits that working remotely or from home can bring.  As a business we have adapted, and we continue to respect that we have a diverse team.  We value and benefit from having time together in the office, but we also understand that reducing our commute, being available to our families and having quiet times to concentrate are important too.  Our hybrid working model offers our team the flexibility to suit all circumstances, all individuals and all preferences.

Benefits

We offer a host of benefits to help make life easier to navigate so that you can focus on the things that matter.  This includes medical insurance and a health cash plan scheme for every-day expenses, we will match your pension contributions up to 5% and we offer life assurance as standard.

Our maternity, paternity and shared parental leave and pay policies are enhanced to support your family life, and we encourage you to take advantage of our numerous salary sacrifice schemes to help make life more affordable.

Application Process

If you are excited about this role but your experience does not align perfectly with the job description, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for many reasons other than just those outlined in this advert.

If you have a medical condition or an individual need for an adjustment to our process, please let us know so we can support your application.

Our normal process will involve an on-line interview and then an in-person meeting at our Bristol office (we will assist with any travel or accommodation needs).