Project Director

Purpose of Role

The Project Director owns the delivery of the project and managing the customer relationship by bringing it in on time, on budget and to expected quality standards as per the customer agreement. This is a senior role with full budget (revenue and GM) responsibility, and a high level of visibility both inside and outside the organisation. The Project Director is responsible for managing the assigned engineering project team for the duration of the project. They will require excellent people leadership, motivational and communication skills to carry out the role successfully. They will be commercially astute to meet project key performance indicators and therefore responsible for managing costs, risks, schedules and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

Project Delivery

• Define, communicate and monitor the project delivery objectives to the entire team.
• Working with Technical Leads to agree schedules, priorities, risks and dependencies.
• Understanding and tracking all of the Customer’s technical requirements as per the agreement to ensure project deliverables are met in line with financial targets and to the customers satisfaction.
• Managing the project resources responsible for the delivery of the project milestones for the duration of the project
• Work with Sales to manage customer project changes to price and deadlines · Working with Technical Leads to identify issues and implementing measures to mitigate risks.
• Carry out project end reviews to ensure that feedback and lessons learned are recorded and actioned.
• Working with the Commercial Director to manage contractual commitments, monitor agreed contractual terms and deal with any variances that may arise
• Work with other Project Directors to manage the overlap of resources to deliver projects.

Customer Relationship

• Support winning of new business by providing robust project estimations and risk analysis early in the bid/quoting process – this may be with existing or new customers.
• Engage with the client frequently, building rapport and ensuring you have a clear understanding of their objectives and are able to cascade this to the team.
• Build customer relationships to facilitate smooth project progress, change requests and dispute resolution.

Skills & Experience

• Proven capability as a problem solver with an ability to upskilling their team.
• Possesses a broad cross disciplinary knowledge but with the ability to challenge
• Reporting and KPIs
• Ability to confidentially challenge aspects that you are not technically experienced in to

ensure clear procedures and correct decisions have been taken

• Contributes to the development of technical sales documents such as a Statement of Work and relating with customers at all stages of sales interaction.

Attributes

• Able to build trust through open and transparent communication.
• Reliable and dedicated to deliver on promises and commitments.
• Ability to work under pressure with solid organisational and creative problem-solving skills.
• Positive mindset, demonstrates Sondrel behaviours and embraces and promotes Sondrel culture
• Self-organisation and ability to respond to changing priorities quickly with excellent time management skills.
• Team player with the ability to guide and mentor more junior team members.
• Self-motivated and able to work under own initiative with excellent attention to detail.
• Passionate and committed to delivering a high standard of work.
• Resilient and always finds a way to succeed.

Where you will work

We have offices in both Theale and Bristol. Our Headquarters is based in Theale where you will be located around plenty of country pubs in the area, golf courses, fishing lakes, good cycle and walking routes. Our Bristol office is modern, open plan complex located by the intersection of the M4 and M5.

Why Sondrel

At Sondrel we are encouraged to think differently, take on innovate and challenging projects and we’re trusted to make independent decisions to progress our own careers in the way that we want. We pride ourselves on being specialists in what we do, collaborative in our approach and we’re hugely passionate about driving the technology for SoC design.

We have teams across the globe which means there is opportunity for both domestic and international travel and the chance to network with some of the most highly skilled and knowledgeable engineers in the industry. Sondrel allows you to enjoy your work by having an autonomous environment built on trust, dependability and integrity as well as having a hybrid work environment catered to individual needs.

As we continue to grow, we are looking for bright individuals who are proactive in what they do, enjoy a challenge and have a desire for continuous learning experiences because, at Sondrel, no two days are ever the same.

What you get

• Competitive salary
• Discretionary Annual bonus
• Salary exchange pension scheme
• Private Medical
• 25 days annual leave plus 8 statutory days
• Hybrid & flexible working
• Free on-site car parking

Inclusion

Sondrel are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We recruit people from varied backgrounds because it makes our team stronger, and we provide an inclusive workplace because growing in partnership is what makes our team great. We do our best to provide fair opportunities to everyone and we want to hear what you need to grow with us.