Michael Benjamin

Experience

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  Nissan Motor Corporation

  Aug 2014 - Aug 2015

  Industrial Placement

  A year's industrial placement at Nissan Technical Centre Europe working as a member of a project management team responsible for the development and launch of a new model into the Russian market. - Project schedule and workload planning assessed and presented to senior management on a regular basis. - Coordinated with global design, test, trial parts ordering and design change management departments ensuring that vehicle trial builds were to design intent, meeting cost and quality targets. - Setup, prepared and presented weekly meetings involving project stakeholders, verbally and visually communicating the status of the project. - Working from a large database of design changes, liaised with design groups to ensure that all relevant design changes had been adopted for vehicle trial builds. Show less

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  CROSBY COMPOSITES LIMITED

  Oct 2017 - Dec 2020

  Project Engineer

  Project Engineer at a leading tier 1 supplier of carbon fibre components to the automotive industry, customers included British supercar manufacturers and Formula 1 teams. Managing projects from conception through to delivery meeting budgets, customer expectations and deadlines. Coordinated with customers to understand requirements and obtain specifications that were then communicated back within the business. Responsible for the scheduling and monitoring of tooling and production parts, understanding available labour, materials and bottlenecks within manufacturing processesHighlighted and resolved issues that arose in the manufacturing process. Show less

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  Arm

  Jan 2021 - May 2022

  Project Manager

  Project Manager within the Central Technology group of Arm. Responsible for coordinating teams of engineers with the primary focus to investigate new technologies (that are two to five years from production) and deliver to engineering groups.• Managed multiple projects of varying sizes and complexity, from a small team of engineers delivering a new infrastructure-related specification to a team of over fifteen focusing on improving the next generation of CPU• Liaised with tech leads and product managers to gather requirements and define the goals, scope, and deliverables of projects• Created schedules using agile or waterfall methodologies, and is proficient in the use of Microsoft Project, Jira and Confluence to plan, track, analyse and communicate project status• Created and maintained project information such as resource plans, project costs, milestone dates, project documents and change orders• Ensured delivery through risk and issue management, and quality through the use of reviews and assessments• Developed and maintained effective relationships with engineering teams, product owners and downstream delivery teams, successfully managing dependencies• Organised and chaired regular project reviews and meetings, providing weekly and monthly reports, project metrics and dashboards to varying levels of stakeholder seniority• Undertook and implemented several continuous improvement initiatives and hosted lessons learned workshops Show less

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  SharkNinja

  Jul 2022 - Mar 2023

  Technical Project Manager
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  Arm

  Feb 2023 - now

  Project Manager