Programme Manager

Job Title:       Programme Manager 
Location:       Farnborough or Bristol
Package:       Competitive Salary + Benefits Package Role Type:     Full Time / Permanent 
Role ID:         SF17422
  The HGMS Phase 3a Estates project is part of a multi-phase programme and is responsible for the design and build of appropriate infrastructure changes to the Applecross estate. These estate changes will house the hardware necessary to operate the HGMS as part of an improved UK underway noise ranging solution, satisfying the interfaces identified by the DoD Interface Requirements Specification (IRS) and subsequent Interface Design Descriptions (IDD) and existing BUTEC systems. 

The Role
As a Programme Manager you will be responsible for the effective project management of multiple suppliers with whom you will work with to ensure the infrastructure changes are delivered within scope of the requirements, and crucially, to time and cost, to ensure the ranges are capable, available and safe. You will have regular engagement with the MOD DE&S project team and at programme level with QinetiQ.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a talented and dedicated team focusing on the build-up of critical defence infrastructure. Due to the nature of the programme, this project provides substantial challenges and will be excellent opportunity to build upon, and extend, existing leadership skills to further extend career opportunities within QinetiQ.  

Day-to-day, you will:

• Deliver high value and complex projects (c £5m)
• Deliver project outputs, to agreed baseline (customer satisfaction, time, cost, quality, cash and sales)
• Ensure project members operate in line with the Operating Framework functional competency management requirements; and have appropriate personal objectives recorded in the QinetiQ performance management system 
• Maintain forecasts (both financial and resource demand signal) for sales and delivery which reflects the up-to-date expectations for the work
• Apply governance requirements (including lifecycle, project & independent reviews as appropriate) for foundation sales and delivery work
• Report progress on all accountabilities to programme / portfolio manager (or their delegate)

This role is full-time, 37 hours per week where you will work on a hybrid basis, you will be working on site three days per week and the rest from home. There is also expectation to travel to Scotland once a month for a three – five day visit. 
 
Experience of the Programme Manager:

• Demonstrable experience leading a business, projects, programmes, portfolios or P3 function and successfully delivering complex projects
• Experience delivering defence, engineering and/or IT projects
• Strong Stakeholder Management: identifying, planning and implementing actions to positively engage parties with an interest in, or influence over, the project outputs
• Ability to manage multiple external supplier(s)
• Experience in Defence, Aerospace or other closely related sectors

 
Qualifications of the Programme Manager:

• Degree (or equivalent experience) in appropriate discipline 
• Hold a recognised PM qualification (APM Project Professional Qualification (PPQ) or Prince2

Please note that all applicants must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum. 
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Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more.
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy up to 5 days’ additional leave. 
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant. 
• Payroll Giving and Volunteering - helping charities and local community

Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those, which help the defence community. 

Why join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture here.  

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits.  You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more. 

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.