# Technical Project Manager

**Company:** [Productive Machines](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/tGcsSafCQY7st9xx4B7BE9.md)
**Location:** Sheffield, United Kingdom
**Workplace:** hybrid
**Employment type:** Full-time

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## Description

Productive Machines develops advanced industrial software that improves machining performance, productivity, and manufacturing decision-making in complex production environments.

Our physics-AI technologies sit at the intersection of software, AI, engineering, and real-world machining production, helping manufacturers unlock machining capacity, reduce cycle times, eliminate chatter vibration, and improve process stability across high-value manufacturing operations.

We are a growing deep-tech company working with industrial customers, machine tool partners, and manufacturing organisations where projects must deliver measurable impact on the shop floor.

As we scale, we are looking for a Technical Project Manager to help coordinate and deliver a mix of:

-   customer-facing industrial pilot projects
-   collaborative R&D programmes involving industrial and academic partners
-   complex internal software and product delivery programmes

This is a hands-on, high-visibility role suited to someone who enjoys operating in fast-moving technical start-up environments and helping bring structure, momentum, and delivery focus across multidisciplinary teams.

### The Role

You will act as a central coordination point across software engineering, product development, customers, manufacturing partners, and commercial teams. The role combines:

-   technical project delivery
-   customer coordination
-   operational organisation
-   stakeholder management

within a scaling industrial software business.

This is not a purely administrative PM role.

### Key Responsibilities

**Project Delivery**

-   Coordinate internal software and product development projects across engineering and product teams.
-   Manage customer-facing pilot projects, onboarding activities, software deployments, and technical integrations.
-   Support delivery of Innovate UK and other collaborative R&D projects involving external partners.
-   Define and track project scope, timelines, milestones, risks, budgets, and dependencies.
-   Ensure projects remain aligned to delivery priorities, defined budgets, and commercial objectives.

**Customer & Stakeholder Coordination**

-   Act as a key interface between engineering, product, commercial teams, customers, and external partners.
-   Run project meetings, planning sessions, delivery reviews, and progress updates.
-   Ensure customer expectations are managed clearly and professionally.
-   Support management reporting and project status visibility.

**Manufacturing & Technical Environment**

-   Work closely with customers operating CNC machining and manufacturing environments.
-   Develop an understanding of machining workflows, CAM software, production constraints, and industrial customer requirements.
-   Help translate technical and operational requirements into structured project plans and actionable tasks.

**Process & Operational Improvement**

-   Help improve project management processes, reporting, introduction of standards and tools, and delivery coordination as the company scales.
-   Ensure documentation, actions, decisions, and lessons learned are captured effectively.
-   Support prioritisation and coordination across multiple concurrent internal and external projects, including roadmap development.

## Requirements

### Required Experience & Skills

-   Proven senior-level experience in managing technical, software, engineering, or industrial projects.
-   Proven experience coordinating both internal and customer-facing projects.
-   Comfortable working with technical engineering teams and external customer technical and senior-level stakeholders.
-   Eligible to work in the UK.
-   Live within commuting distance of the AMP Centre, Rotherham.

### Highly Desirable

-   Experience within manufacturing, machining, industrial automation, engineering software, or Industry 4.0 environments.
-   Familiarity with CNC machining, CAM systems, or production operations.
-   Experience working with industrial software or technical products.
-   Experience supporting grant-funded or collaborative R&D projects.
-   Familiarity with Agile workflows and tools such as Jira, Confluence, or Bitbucket.
-   Formal PM qualifications (PRINCE2, Agile, PMP, Scrum, etc.) beneficial but not essential.

## Benefits

### What We Offer

-   Options for the right candidate, dependent on experience.
-   Opportunity to work at the forefront of AI-driven industrial technology
-   High-impact role within a growing deep-tech company
-   Exposure to advanced manufacturing and cutting-edge industrial software
-   Collaborative engineering-led culture with significant ownership and visibility
-   Private medical insurance, life assurance, and contributory pension scheme
-   Flexible working arrangements where appropriate