Senior Project Manager in Guildford

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Your Role

Capgemini Engineering is seeking a Senior Project Manager with proven experience in setting up, managing, and successfully delivering projects, ideally within the satellite, engineering, or aerospace industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Managing projects or aspects of a project from contract commencement through development and delivery of space and ground segments, launch preparation, in‑orbit commissioning and subsequent service delivery and operations.
• To be responsible for all aspects of the project, or a major element of a programme, working in accordance with the established procedures & processes developed (including schedules, deliverables lists, management plans, management of risks, technical maturity gates, earned value management, etc).
• Day‑to‑day management of the project core team activities to ensure the entire project is progressing in line with the baseline plan, with the expectation on strong leadership, motivation and being the driving force behind the engineering delivery.
• Breaking down work into appropriate work packages and obtaining agreements with engineering team leaders for appropriate resources.
• Management of the project key risks to ensure that risks are identified and captured with measurable and appropriate mitigation actions in place and driven through the project work package structure.
• Monitoring and controlling the project finances (ensuring contingency remains commensurate with weighted risk exposure, cost to complete, profit take) to ensure the project is delivered within the agreed budget.
• Preparation of cost packs in support of business development activities. Supporting bids providing programmatic solutions into the Bid Manager, covering deliverables, schedule, costs, risks and customer interactions.

Your profile

• Proven experience in project management specifically in setting up, running and successfully delivering projects, ideally in a satellite or engineering/aerospace industry.
• Experience of interfacing with customers.
• Good experience of implementing contracts.
• Familiarity with work package systems and matrix management structure preferable.
• A degree or equivalent in engineering or technical discipline would be preferable.
• Good team working skills, together with the ability to interface with others at all levels.
• Excellent inter‑personal and communication skills, able to influence, persuade and negotiate with people at all levels (externally & internally) as well as to assist in reaching compromises when there are conflicting requirements.
• Proven ability to deliver solutions under pressure and to tight timescales.
• Ability to work closely with technical teams to understand and grasp concepts and issues and translate those to schedule and cost impacts with a balanced approach to risk.
• Ability to understand commercial terms and translate those into impacts on project.
• Ability to create a project plan and to translate that into a project schedule within MS Project.
• Understanding of contracts and product assurance plans.

What you’ll love about working here

• Well‑being hub and different wellbeing initiatives.
• Possibility to work up to 45 days per year from abroad.
• Open access to digital learning platforms.
• Active employee networks promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.

Need to Know

All roles will require a level of security clearance; BPSS OR Security Clearance OR Developed Vetting. This role requires 3 days/week office presence based in Guildford.

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who: Declare they have a disability, and Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. Please opt in during the application process.

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level

Employment type: Full‑time

Job function: Project Management

Industries: Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing and Defense and Space Manufacturing