Senior Project Manager, Aerospace Pillar (PMO), SIMTech

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage large scale programmes under the PMO Project Lifecycle Management (PLCM) framework, ensuring delivery to scope, schedule, cost, quality and deployment readiness.
• Deep dive with technical/research teams to refine industry needs and translate them into clear requirements, milestones, acceptance criteria and delivery plans.
• Drive end to end delivery governance: establish delivery cadence, manage change interventions, and ensure timely escalation.
• Manage critical vendors/system integrators (where relevant) and ensure delivery meets project requirements and compliance expectations.
• Own programme governance and risk management: monitor, mitigate, and resolve delivery risks; implement risk and issue management practices to maintain delivery health.
• Support steering / leadership forums with clear, evidence‑based recommendations on priorities, trade‑offs, intervention needs and decision options.
• Set and enforce delivery standards (templates, checklists, quality gates) to reduce delivery variability and improve repeatability across the programme.
• Serve as the primary interface for stakeholder environments (industry partners, internal functions, and where applicable, public agencies), ensuring effective communications across the programme lifecycle.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and alignment toward a common goal; anticipate misalignments and drive closure through structured decision‑making.
• Mentor and coach junior project managers/project engineers; uplift PM discipline and delivery practice across the team through structured reviews and best practice sharing.
• To operate as a programme leader to foster teamwork, motivate personnel, and drive continuous improvement in delivery methods and governance.
• Ensure project documentation and reporting are relevant, accurate, complete, and compliant with PLCM and grant management expectations; maintain audit ready records.