Technical Project Manager

Own project planning and delivery tracking across concurrent engineering projects and work streams (firmware, electronics, mechanical, testing), translating product strategy and portfolio priorities into executable projects with clear milestones, owners, and outcomes.

Convert ambitious commercial and operational deadlines into realistic, resourced delivery plans — holding the line on both ambition and delivery discipline.

Maintain visibility across work streams, dependencies, risks, decisions, and resourcing gaps, managing technical risk and dependency mapping across products at different Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) and adjusting project rigour and testing requirements accordingly.

Take ownership of BOMs for any existing and future products, manage key supplier relationships and keep track of all materials deliveries.

Technical Expertise: Understand the architecture, dependencies, and technical challenges of hardware design and development. Support engineering teams in resolving technical issues. Ensure compliance with industry standards and government regulations, such as MIL-STD, UK DEFSTAN, and STANAG testing and qualification requirements across the product lifecycle.

Act as the connective tissue across engineering, procurement, business development, security, product, commercial, and customers — driving cross-functional alignment and ensuring technical progress, customer commitments, and delivery constraints are understood on all sides.

Identify and resolve blockers fast, escalate early and clearly, and provide concise, decision-ready updates on consequential tradeoffs.

Build and refine the project management tooling, processes, and reporting cadence as ARD scales — you'll be creating much of this from scratch.

Identify missing handoffs and unwritten work, converting them into accountable plans, and facilitate requirements and scope definition with product, customer, and technical owners.

Lead pilots, implementations, migrations, rollouts, adoption, and operational handoffs.

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Computer, Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering, or adjacent discipline - or - experience working in a technical engineering role prior to working as a project manager.

4+ years proven experience in Technical Engineering Project Management across multiple concurrent projects,, delivering complex hardware products, ideally in defence, aerospace, or another regulated hardware environment; and ideally at a range of company maturity stages.

Working familiarity with MIL-STD testing standards, UK DEFSTAN, and NATO STANAG requirements, and how these shape project planning and qualification timelines.

Comfort operating across a range of TRL levels — from early, rapid prototyping and experimentation through to production-grade delivery — and judgement on how to flex process accordingly.

A genuine start-up mentality: comfortable with ambiguity, resourcefulness, and getting hands dirty where needed, rather than waiting for the perfect process.

A track record of hitting ambitious deadlines in fast-moving, resource-constrained environments.

Strong stakeholder management skills — able to communicate technical risk and progress clearly to both engineers and non-technical leadership.

Willingness to travel to remote and extreme environments as part of the role if deemed necessary.