Title:  Senior Project Manager

Package:         Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role ID:           SF17970

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 Senior Project Manager at either our Portsmouth, Farnborough or Gosport sites, 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 Senior Project Manager you will cover a number of QinetiQ sites across a regional area to lead and take full responsibility for the project delivery across the QinetiQ Estates to ensure a high level of service.

Day-to-day, you will organise the project and its delivery as well as integrating the project team within the business and ensuring that a health and safety culture is embedded within the team.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Developing junior project management competence
• Defining and maintaining under review the overall aims and objectives of the project, together with their relative priorities, and the overall scope of the project
• Defining and agreeing an appropriate budget, delivering the project within this budget and managing and reporting progress against an agreed cost plan
• Managing the activities of the external advisors, including the management of their appointments, via appointed Procurement Team Managers within QinetiQ
• The management of project documentation to include bids, proposals and third party documentation
• Deploying appropriate risk management strategies and methods for controlling quality

Essential experience of the Senior Project Manager: 

• Extensive experience of building teams to deliver construction projects and multi-sector project delivery experience, including defence
• Highly developed interpersonal skills with an ability to deal with executives at senior level and equivalent on a day-to-day basis and as well as excellent stakeholder management skills
• Working knowledge of Planning Application and GPDO process as well as sustainability and energy aspects of project delivery
• Detailed and working knowledge of building regulations, JSP standards and the Construction, Design Management (CDM) regulations and must have acted as client or similar on a construction related project
• Detailed knowledge of risk management processes and techniques, and environmental legislation and ecological regulation
• Working knowledge of NEC contracts as well as JCT and detailed range of knowledge of civil engineering, infrastructure and building works methods

Essential qualifications for the Senior Project Manager:

• A professional qualification in the form of degree, accreditation (APM, Prince 2, CIOB) or Chartered status
• Degree qualified preferable in a vocational discipline

We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you. 

This role is 37 hours per week based at Portsmouth, Farnborough or Gosport. Hybrid working patterns are available. Travel to other QinetiQ and customer sites will be expected.

QinetiQ operates state of the art facilities across the UK that focus on defence, security and technology innovation. These facilities enable QinetiQ to conduct a wide range of research, testing and development activities that both support military and civilian applications helping to advance technology and support national security.

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)