P3M Principal Consultant

Title: P3M Principal Consultant

Salary range: £95,000-£105,000

Location: Bristol, Portsmouth, Burton, Manchester

Working Pattern: We operate a flexible hybrid working pattern at Frazer-Nash, with time split between the office, client sites and working from home.

Closing date is 30th November, but early applications are encouraged.

Frazer-Nash helps organisations deliver innovative systems, engineering, and technology solutions to make lives safe, secure, sustainable, and affordable.

Due to our growth, we are seeking 2 experienced Senior Defence Leaders with either Maritime or Aerospace experience to join our team as a Principal Consultant and to manage delivery of complex, high-value programmes for our strategic defence clients.

This is a rare opportunity to join Frazer-Nash at a critical time in the evolving defence landscape, combining innovation, and operational delivery.

The ideal candidate will bring demonstrated experience in building stakeholder confidence at the highest levels, delivering critical capability, and leading effective teams in changing and complex environments.

This role will include:

• Support of business development activities in conjunction with Business Managers
• Responsible for developing services and a market presence that supports the company’s strategy
• Responsible for managing bids, including directing work on bids undertaken by technical staff at all levels within bid / project teams
• Management of large and complex projects across your defence domain sector
• Providing engineering knowledge and leadership across the team, including defining engineering strategies for live projects and identified opportunities, and providing support to early-career engineers

Essential Experience

Essential Experience You are a visionary and delivery-focused individual with extensive experience and sector knowledge across defence aerospace or maritime, effective stakeholder engagement skills, including engaging with executives.

• Air programmes and environments such as GCAP, Typhoon, P-8 Uncrewed air systems (UAS) and advanced autonomous technologies
• Submarine programmes such as Dreadnought or SSNA
• Exposure to ship/air integration or maritime aviation operations
• Background in high-pressure operational delivery environments
• Working with major UK defence OEMs
• Experience shaping defence policy, strategy, or capability planning

Why Join This Role

Why Join This role offers the opportunity to operate in a highly advanced area of defence aerospace, leading programmes that directly define future capability. You will work alongside senior leaders across government, industry, and international partners, with the chance to make a real contribution.

Due to the nature of the work that Frazer-Nash Consultancy undertake, candidates will be required to undergo pre-employment screening and must be able to satisfy clearance criteria for UK National Security Vetting.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with yearly reviews
• 25 days holiday + the opportunity to buy 5 days.
• A company that has its heart in the right place and a welcoming work culture.
• Happy to talk flexible working
• Enhanced parental benefits
• Company pension scheme
• Targeted professional development
• Life assurance
• Private healthcare membership
• Bonus scheme linked into company performance
• Paid membership fees to a professional institution
• Support in attaining professional membership
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season rail ticket loan
• And further optional benefits you can tailor to your personal requirements

Frazer-Nash is a leading systems, engineering and technology company. We help organisations deliver innovative engineering and technology solutions to make lives safe, secure, sustainable, and affordable. With over 1000 employees, we work from a network of nine UK and four Australian locations. Our people apply their expertise to develop, enhance and protect our clients' critical assets, systems and processes. We use our skills and talents to ensure a sustainable future for society. Our work helps deliver a safe and secure world, where natural resources are conserved, and clean energy is available to all. And we focus on actions to reduce climate change; supporting rapid and far-reaching transformations in the delivery of energy, security, industry, and transport.

At the heart of our business are a set of self-defined core values. These are part of our DNA and we’re committed to upholding them – internally as part of our Frazer-Nash family; in the way we work with our customers; and when we engage with the wider world.

We care At Frazer-Nash, we care about each other; always looking to collaborate and see things from the other person’s point of view. We offer mutual support, learn from one another, and work as a team to deliver the best results. Everyone has a voice, and we all make the time to listen. We will work with openness and collaborate effectively – thinking about our clients and our people, and responding to their needs. We care about the difference we make to the wider world.

We are trusted Effective collaboration is founded upon trust. We earn the trust of our customers and colleagues by delivering on the commitments we have made to them. We deliver value and success to our customers and to our business. We continually strive to be the best at what we do. We want to do things that matter. We seek out interesting and satisfying work that helps makes a difference in society. We use our expertise to provide trusted, impartial professional advice to our clients. By making a difference to today, we benefit the world of tomorrow – so we can all go home each day knowing that we’ve done something that really mattered.

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