Title:  Project Manager - Defence Digital

Package:  Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role ID:     SF16366

Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting edge defence technology to ground breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives.  Join us as a Project Manager at our Portsmouth site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

The Role:
As a Project Manager, you’ll have a role that is out of the ordinary. You would join the Systems Integration and Assurance portfolio, which sits, within the Defence Digital Business Stream. You will be responsible for the successful delivery of a range of customer-funded projects, within our Defence Digital Team.

Day-to-day, you will develop and maintain positive engagement with project customers, partners and suppliers.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Delivering project outputs to an agreed baseline across customer satisfaction, time, cost, quality, cash and sales
• Ensuring project members operate in line with QinetiQ's operating framework & functional competency management requirements and have appropriate personal objectives recorded in QinetiQ's performance management system
• Resolving conflicts within the project and collaborating across QinetiQ
• Maintaining forecasts for both financial and resource demand signalling for sales and delivery
• Applying governance requirements including lifecycle, project & independent reviews as appropriate for foundation sales and delivery work

Essential experience of the Project Manager: 

• Operating as a Project Manager within IT Communications, Information Assurance and Cyber Security
• Managing complex projects within a defence or delivering projects specifically to a defence contractor 
• Project Management experience using Waterfall methodology

Essential qualifications for the Project Manager:

• Previous experience in a Project Management
• APM qualified or another comparable PM qualification
• The successful candidate must be willing to undergo DV Clearance, please see the link below for guidance

This role is 37 hours per week based at PTP, Portsmouth. Hybrid working patterns are available.

Portsmouth Technology Park (PTP) is one of QinetiQ’s key facilities, focusing on advanced technology development and engineering services. It is dedicated to research and development, ensuring that complex systems are designed, integrated, and tested effectively to meet operational requirements. The facility utilises sophisticated modelling and simulation techniques to analyse and predict performance.

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.  As a QinetiQ employee, 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. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture.  www.qinetiq.com/en/careers/life-at-qinetiq

Our Benefits

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days
• Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
• Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and local community

Our Recruitment Process:

We want to make sure that our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and we aspire to bring out the best in our candidates by creating an environment where everyone feels value, heard and supported.  If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which mean factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

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

UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)