Project Manager, Operations Manager

Overview

Project Manager – Advanced Propulsion
Oxford, with occasional travel
£Competitive + Good Benefits Package

Join an ambitious propulsion business designing next-generation microturbine engines for jet applications.

Our scalable engines leverage additive manufacturing, complex geometries, and proprietary high-temperature nickel superalloys to deliver step-change performance with reduced part counts and UK-based production scalability.

• Lead integrated programme planning across technical and operational work streams
• Manage risk, cost, schedule, and resource allocation
• Drive milestone tracking, reporting, and action-focused reviews
• Facilitate clear communication across engineering, commercial, and external stakeholders
• Support contract and supplier management
• Maintain robust documentation (risk registers, plans, decision logs)

• 2–5 years’ industrial experience, including programme/project management in a technical environment
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• High EQ, organised, adaptable, and comfortable with ambiguity
• Experience using project management tools (Gantt charts, risk registers, trackers)

• Engineering or physical sciences background
• Experience in aerospace, manufacturing, or advanced technology
• Familiarity with stage-gate processes, DVP, TRR
• Awareness of ISO
  9001, APQP, ITAR/EAR

If you thrive in agile, high-performance engineering environments and want to help scale breakthrough propulsion technology, we’d love to hear from you.