Title:  Project Manager

Job Title:         Project Manager
Location:         Portsmouth, Hampshire
Package:         Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits Package
Role Type:       Full-time / Permanent
Role ID:           SF17650
 
Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as a Project Manager where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and many of the industry’s most brilliant minds. The project manager will assist the programme manager with delivery of on-contract projects through to project closure, and manage the sub-contractors as they deliver their work-share and integrate it with the QinetiQ operating infrastructure.

Maritime Training, Tactics, Test and Evaluation Transformation Inter Disciplinary Team (MTET IDT) are taking on new business from the MOD to grow our Maritime Ranging capabilities, and we are seeking a Project Manager to help manage delivery of the Submarine Electro-Magnetic Ranging (SMEMR) Programme. 
 
The SMEMR programme is a multi-phase programme building on the SMEMR technology demonstrator at BUTEC to put in place the infrastructure required to carry out routine EM ranging of submarines for our customer as part of the LTPA. This is an opportunity to join a talented and dedicated team focusing on the build-up of critical defence infrastructure. Due to the nature of the investments the projects provide significant challenges and will be excellent opportunity to build upon, and extend, existing leadership skills to further extend career opportunities within QinetiQ.
 
The Role:
As a Project Manager, you will have a role out of the ordinary. You will be accountable for the delivery and leadership of a multi-year risk-bearing investment project. You will be tasked with ensuring our commitments to our internal and external stakeholders are met.
 
Day-to-day, you will also be responsible for:

• Tracking and monitoring of monthly costs, invoicing and revenue payments in order to support business financial objectives and supplier progress, raising of purchase orders, and supply payments on the supply chain side
• Delivering the project outputs, to agreed baseline (customer satisfaction, time, cost, quality, cash and sales) and ensuring project members operate in line with the Operating Framework & functional competency management requirements
• Resolving conflicts (including prioritisation calls) within the project and collaborating across QinetiQ
• Developing and maintaining of forecasts (both financial and resource demand signal) for delivery which reflects the up-to-date expectations for the work
• The application of governance requirements (including lifecycle, project & independent reviews as appropriate) for delivery work
• Reporting progress on all accountabilities to senior programme / portfolio manager (or their delegate) 

 
This role is a full-time position based at our Portsmouth site with adaptive working arrangements. You will also be required to travel occasionally to BUTEC range, and to QQ, customer and sub-contractor sites for meetings and visits as required.

Essential experience of the Project Manager:

• Project management experience and worked into a function that successfully delivers support to complex projects
• Delivering defence, engineering and/or IT projects
• Leadership; influencing and aligning others towards the vision for the project, and to empower & inspire people to achieve success
• Communication; effectively communication as part of a two-way interaction, using a range of techniques, to ensure the received meaning matches the transmitted meaning
• Stakeholder Management: identifying, planning and implementing actions to positively engage parties with an interest in, or influence over, the project outputs
• Teamwork: creating an environment where a group of people with diverse personalities, skills, experiences and perspectives are empowered to collaborate towards a common goal

Qualifications for the Project Manager:

• Degree (or equivalent experience) in appropriate discipline
• Hold a recognised PM qualification (APM Project Professional Qualification (PPQ) or Prince2)
• Experience in Defence, Aerospace or other closely related sectors

Please note that all applicants must hold, or be able to achieve Security Clearance as a minimum.
UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

 
Our Benefits:

• Adaptive and flexible working
• Generous holiday allowance
• Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance, and Dental Insurance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee discount portal
• Holiday Trading
• Support for the Armed Forces community
• Payroll Giving and Volunteering

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. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture.

About QinetiQ

As a company of thousands of 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.

Security

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants who 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, which mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

Application Guidance
If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please contact your regional recruiting team in strictest confidence. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

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