Technical Project Manager - UK/EU
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Occupation Type
IT project managers
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
Sponsorship Salary Threshold
£58,200
(£29.85 per hour)
Occupation rate applies
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Description
Overview
HighRes is seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to lead the delivery of our advanced laboratory automation and robotic systems throughout the UK and EU region. This role requires a blend of technical fluency, customer-facing professionalism, and disciplined project leadership. You will work cross-functionally with engineering, software, manufacturing, field service, and customer success teams to ensure seamless delivery of complex automation solutions that support scientific discovery.
Role & Responsibilities
Required Experience & Technical Background
HighRes is seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to lead the delivery of our advanced laboratory automation and robotic systems throughout the UK and EU region. This role requires a blend of technical fluency, customer-facing professionalism, and disciplined project leadership. You will work cross-functionally with engineering, software, manufacturing, field service, and customer success teams to ensure seamless delivery of complex automation solutions that support scientific discovery.
Role & Responsibilities
- Lead mid- to large-scale integration projects for automated laboratory systems from kick-off to FAT/SAT and final acceptance.
- Develop, manage, and communicate detailed project plans, milestones, dependencies, timelines, and budgets.
- Identify and mitigate risks, escalating proactively and driving transparent resolution strategies.
- Ensure all deliverables, documentation, and change controls meet HighRes and customer quality standards.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for scientific, technical, and operational stakeholders.
- Facilitate requirements gathering, URS interpretation, scope alignment, and expectation management.
- Coordinate resource planning, scheduling, dependencies, and priorities across multiple concurrent projects.
- Create and maintain project documentation including charters, specifications, FAT/SAT protocols, and acceptance reports.
Required Experience & Technical Background
- 5–8 years of project management experience in life sciences, laboratory automation, robotics, biotech, pharma, or complex electromechanical systems.
- Experience leading cross‑functional engineering or automation projects involving robotic integration, scientific instrumentation, or automated laboratory workflows with external customers
- Exceptional verbal and written communication; able to explain complex technical topics clearly.
- Executive presence with the ability to engage senior scientific and operational leaders.
- High emotional intelligence and strong customer relationship management capability.
- Ability to manage multiple fast-paced projects with strong organizational discipline.
- Collaborative team player able to unify diverse functions toward common goals.
- Proactive problem-solver who anticipates issues and drives solutions.
- PMP or similar project management certification.
- Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, or process improvement methodologies.
- Familiarity with software development workflows or agile environments.
We design and build innovative robotic systems and laboratory devices used by pharmaceutical and biotech companies and academic research laboratories. Our work helps scientists accelerate drug discovery, high throughput genotyping, siRNA screening, next-generation sequencing sample prep, biorepository science and molecular diagnostics with highly flexible, expandable, and modular integrated systems, bench-top devices and consumables that are easily configured (and reconfigured) to create research environments conducive to achieving breakthrough results.