Job description for Project Manager

The Project Management function delivers some of the most complex and exciting projects in UK defence, offering fantastic variety with the support to shape and grow your career. Working arm-in-arm with Project Controls specialists, our teams deliver fast-paced, cutting-edge projects – from the newest armoured vehicles to ground-breaking future aviation technologies – while ensuring critical core programmes keep moving forward, too.

We’re an Association for Project Management accredited organisation, and as part of our team you’ll benefit from plenty of opportunities for development, on-going training, access to funded professional qualifications, and a c.27% employer pension contribution. You’ll also have access to a wide range of employee networks, including the Women’s Inclusive Network, Race & Culture Network, Pride Network, Disability Network – and many more. We recognise that the best people for the job may have commitments outside of work, so we’re pleased to promote flexible working to support our colleagues in balancing work and home life.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Junior Project Manager based at Brize Norton working on a multinational aircraft programme with international partners.

As a Junior Project Manager you will be supporting the Project Manager to deliver elements of a high profile multi-million pound project. You will be using recognised project management principles, tools and techniques.

You will be responsible for supporting a wide range of project activities throughout the project life cycle for the support of the RAF’s most advanced, proven and cutting edge certified 21st century state-of-the-art A400M airlifter platform. ‘Atlas’, a four-engine turboprop aircraft, can deliver 25 tonnes of cargo over 2,000 nautical miles at impressive speed and can use short and unprepared runways.

The key aspects of this job are interaction with multi-national organisations, RAF personnel, industry and the wider delivery team, helping to drive project management best practice whilst working collaboratively to deliver services to the front-line Command customer, via an integrated and coordinated cross-functional effort

With a proactive and continuous improvement mind set, you will encourage a culture of imaginative thinking, learning from experience and challenging the status quo to continually drive for improved quality. You’ll play a key role within a diverse team and will actively contribute to an environment in which everyone is collaboratively working, communicating clearly and delivering to a clear plan of action.

Brize Norton is the UK’s largest RAF station and offers a truly impressive work location of an airfield environment. You’ll have the chance to work alongside the aircraft you are supporting day to day and understand the real-world impact your role makes to our RAF front line.

Please note some attendance at the stated site may be required for this position.

We strongly recommend tailoring your CV in line with our CV guidance before applying, with specific sections to highlight Key Achievements, Relevant Experience, and Applied Skills & Knowledge.

Responsibilities for Project Manager

In this role, you will be entrusted with:
• To support the development of project documentation
• Provision of project support to the wider Project Delivery Team
• Assisting in the coordination of a high-performing cross-functional team
• Supporting and contributing to the analysis of requirements, risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies and opportunities
• Building relationships, influencing stakeholders and managing expectation
• Maintaining consistent outputs within ambiguous or uncertain environments
• You will be supported to deliver outputs that are critical to UK defence, and will be provided with training to further develop Project Professional skills.

What you will be assessed against

To be successful with your application you must demonstrate that you meet the following essential criteria:
• Previous experience of understanding or applying project management tools and techniques to contribute to successful project delivery outputs
• Experience of engaging and / or supporting stakeholder
• Contributing to project improvements or change

In addition to the responsibilities above, the following technical competencies and behaviours will be assessed at interview:
• Controlling a Project
• Developing self and others
• Changing and improving

What’s in it for you?

Our careers offer stability, training, progression – and much more! Discover more about what we offer in our Little Book of Big Benefits. Find out more about our pension schemes.

We’re exploring future ways of working with a flexible and a family-friendly approach in mind. This means that successful candidates may be offered the option of hybrid working, combining working at home with working at their contractual location. Further information relevant to hybrid working will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post, to find a balance that suits your needs and those of the organisation. Please note that employees are responsible for meeting the cost of their travel to and from work when attending site.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are dedicated to creating a great place to work that reflects the diversity of the society we serve. To help us do this, we particularly encourage applications from women, ethnic minorities, disabled people and people from LGBT communities. By bringing together different ideas, experiences and perspectives, we can achieve our ambitions, together.

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