Diane Kendall

Delivered projects worth £200k to £108m across defence engineering.

Managed multiple concurrent projects within £200k to £108m contract values.

• Proven track record of delivering projects both on time and to budget.
• Owned project budget, leading allocation to work packages and associated WBS items while ensuring accurate review and reporting of changes, EAC, and ETCs for clear understanding of cost variance.
• Monitoring and evaluating project performance and progress.
• Produced regular progress and performance reports for customers and senior leadership, covering financials, risk management, change management, key opportunities, issues, dependencies, and schedule performance.
• Coordinated programme delivery across a matrix organisation to ensure alignment and efficiency.
• Coordinating and leading project teams, including Engineers, Procurement, and Production team.
• Managed projects and bids from Request for Information to project closure, collaborating with team and customer.
• Developed long term customer relationships.
• Organised day to day and long-term objectives and ensured team members understood the timelines required in meeting the programme delivery schedule.
• Exceeded financial targets through effective project management.
• Bid and contract management of strategic bids.
• Successful Stakeholder management of challenging international customers
• Proactively manage risks and opportunities
• Experience of working with an ERP system.
• Organising and leading production daily meetings on the shop floor in ensuring company and customer goals are achieved.
• Delivering within an LCM process.
• Exceeded customer satisfaction scores 95%
• Ensuring resource data inputs are submitted to the IBP team for the bids and projects.

Led critical strategic projects supporting delivery of new medical product market release.

Managed projects within a complex matrix structure to ensure effective collaboration across teams.

• Chaired cross-functional meetings to assess risks, schedules, and team progress, driving alignment across teams.
• Produced weekly project status updates and performance reports for leadership.
• Controlled and allocate resources to maintain project workstreams.
• Coordinated functions to maintain the verification testing plan schedule.
• Coordinated all functions to keep verification testing plans on schedule.
• Built long-term supplier relationships to support verified delivery timelines.
• Developed revised project outline documents and obtain required signatures quickly.
• Led first successful CMR stage gate review, securing delivery approval.
• Managed development of revised Project Outline Document, achieving first-time sign-off and approval for projects led.

• Employment history overview, summarising responsibilities, scope, and key activities described above within current employment.