Job Title:  Resource Manager

Package:  Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role ID:     SF20288

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 Resource Manager at our Shoeburyness 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 Resource Manager, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring the successful delivery of projects and trials by coordinating the effective use of people, facilities, and equipment across a complex engineering and testing environment. By balancing competing priorities and providing clear visibility of resource availability, you’ll help maximise operational efficiency and support business performance.

Day-to-day, you’ll coordinate the planning and scheduling of workforce, facilities, specialist equipment, and trial activities across a complex engineering and testing environment. Working closely with Project Managers, Engineering, Operations, and Facility Managers, you’ll balance resource demand against capacity, resolve scheduling conflicts, and ensure key activities are delivered efficiently. You’ll monitor factors that affect resource availability, including maintenance schedules, equipment downtime, and personnel absences, while providing clear visibility of upcoming work through accurate plans, reports, and stakeholder communications. Acting as the central point of coordination for resource and facility planning, you’ll support prioritisation decisions, influence stakeholders at all levels, and continuously identify opportunities to improve planning processes and operational efficiency.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Coordinating and maintaining workforce, facility, and equipment schedules to support project and trial delivery
• Managing competing resource demands and resolving scheduling conflicts across operational and engineering teams
• Collaborating with Project Managers, Facility Managers and stakeholders to align resource availability with business priorities
• Monitoring resource availability, maintenance activities and workforce capacity to minimise delivery disruption
• Producing utilisation, capacity, and planning reports to support operational decision-making
• Driving continuous improvement of resource planning processes, tools, and ways of working

Essential experience of the Resource Manager:

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and challenge at all levels of the organisation
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities and resolve resource conflicts in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent organisational skills with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage complex schedules
• Strong IT literacy, including Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, supported by strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

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 our Shoeburyness site with a minimum average site attendance of three days per week.

Shoeburyness

QinetiQ Shoeburyness is a significant test and evaluation facility specialising in defence and security technologies. The site is focused on Environmental Testing including the evaluation of various ordnance, explosives and related systems. Implementing measures to ensure that testing activities comply with environmental regulations and minimise ecological impact.

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

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Our Recruitment Process:

At QinetiQ we are committed to building an inclusive, accessible and welcoming workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We believe that a diverse mix of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences drives innovation and leads to better outcomes for our people, customers and communities. We encourage applications from all candidates and are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing internal_recruitment@qinetiq.com. One of our recruitment team will contact you.

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 means factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

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 experiences 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