Senior Project Manager

Company: Atlas Copco
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Location: Bristol
Job Description:

Your role

As a Senior Project Manager, your mission is to be accountable for the delivery of a large sized project; or be accountable for the delivery of multiple medium sized projects; or be accountable for the delivery of multiple subsystems/ technologies. You will report to the Senior Programmes Manager.

You will

  • Plan: Act as the single point of contact responsible for project schedule, cost, risks, and scope; generate a suitable Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) that enables level 0, 1, 2 and 3 plans to be developed; track progress and provide updates to the programme team and key stakeholders as required.
  • Budget: Own the Projects budget, monitoring the expenditures and costs throughout the project.
  • Responsibility Matrix: Ensure a suitable responsibility matrix (RACI) has been generated for each project.
  • Risk, Actions, Issues and Decisions: Develop a RAID log for the project detailing key risks, actions, issues and decisions. For all risks ensure a suitable mitigate is in place, developing contingency plans, or adjusting project scope, resources or the timelines as needed.
  • Stakeholder Management: Manage multidisciplinary teams to deliver end‑to‑end project milestones and goals.
  • Reporting: Translate Project status, risks, opportunities and issues into reliable, consistent, and regular reporting.

Qualifications

  • Have a recognised Project or Programme Management Qualification (e.g. APM PMQ, Prince2), or equivalent experience (Essential).
  • Educated to Degree level in a suitable Technical/Engineering/Science discipline (Essential).
  • Have significant experience of managing complex technical programmes or projects spanning multiple phases/years to time, spec, and cost and have experience in managing projects with software content (Essential).
  • Must have demonstrated experience of influencing and managing across global teams (Essential).
  • Must have excellent influencing and negotiation skills at multiple organisational levels (Essential).
  • Must be able to analyse complex programme requirements and generate a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) as part of high-level programme definition (Essential).
  • Experience of project planning tools (such as Microsoft Project), processes and methodologies (Essential).

Benefits

  • Culture of trust and accountability
  • Lifelong learning and career growth
  • Innovation powered by people
  • Comprehensive compensation and benefits
  • Health and well‑being

Job location

This role offers a hybrid working arrangement, allowing you to split your time between working remotely and being on‑site in Bristol, United Kingdom (GB).

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Posted: April 20th, 2026