Project Manager in Dorchester

Astute's Nuclear Team is partnering with a leading engineering and technology organisation specialising in complex maritime and defence systems to recruit a Project Manager to join its established team based at their offices in Winfrith Newburgh. The strategically important Project Manager role comes with a competitive salary, excellent benefits package including dental insurance, travel insurance and enhanced holiday allowance, flexible working arrangements, and the opportunity to work on cutting-edge research and development projects that support future technologies and capabilities.

If you're a Project Manager with experience working within, already hold or are able to obtain SC clearance and are looking to work for an organisation that values innovation, technical excellence, and professional development, then submit your CV to apply today.

Responsibilities and duties of the Project Manager role

Reporting to the Head of Delivery you will:

• Lead complex technical projects from concept and development through to test and acceptance.
• Define project structures, work breakdowns, programmes and delivery teams.
• Manage project budgets, timescales, milestones, risks and opportunities.
• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary project teams, suppliers and subcontractors.
• Manage key customer and stakeholder relationships, including senior Government, Navy and industry representatives.
• Ensure effective risk, quality, security, configuration and change management.
• Manage contracts to ensure delivery remains aligned with business and customer objectives.
• Lead customer and supplier negotiations and support commercial management.
• Represent the project externally and provide clear reporting to senior management.
• Contribute to bids, developing project plans, risks, work packages and delivery strategies.

Professional qualifications

We are looking for someone with the following:

• Proven experience successfully delivering complex technical projects.
• Strong project management and commercial awareness.
• Experience managing significant-value projects to challenging deadlines and requirements.
• Excellent leadership and stakeholder management skills.
• Degree educated in a relevant STEM discipline would be advantageous.
• Membership of a recognised project management body such as APM would be desirable, but is not essential.
• Defence experience, particularly within the maritime or underwater domain, would be highly advantageous.
• Full SC Security Clearance required - candidates must be eligible to obtain this.

Personal skills

The Project Manager role would suit someone who is:

• Delivery-focused, motivated and commercially aware.
• Confident leading teams and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Innovative and comfortable challenging conventional thinking.
• A strong communicator, able to engage technical and non-technical audiences.
• Tenacious, organised and able to manage competing priorities.
• Comfortable representing projects with customers, suppliers and senior management.
• A collaborative team player with strong leadership skills.

Salary and benefits of the Project Manager role

Competitive Salary and benefits package including:

• Enhanced Annual Leave
• Flexible working scheme
• Travel Insurance
• Enhanced Pension Contribution
• Income Protection
• Dental Insurance
• Life Assurance
• Discount scheme and more.