With recent growth across our Project Management and Project Control functions, we have an opportunity for an individual to join our team where you will grow your skills and develop your career within a collaborative and supportive environment.
Salary
Circa £ 40,000 depending on experience
Dynamic (hybrid) working
2-3 days per week on site due to workload classification.
Security Clearance
British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship. All successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS) after offer. Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply.
Benefits
- Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
- Pension: Maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
- Overtime: Opportunity for paid overtime
- Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
- Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
- Enhanced parental leave: Offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave – enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
- Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more
- Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more
Opportunity
This role is based within the manufacturing domain, ensuring that our products are built to schedule, cost, and scope. The role is a hybrid Project Management and Control role where the successful individual will support the Project Manager and Project Control Lead across a number of work packages and contracts.
Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be involved in a broad range of project management and control activities, with the support of more experienced colleagues. Activities will include:
- Promoting good project management practices and processes across the Manufacturing community
- Effective Stakeholder Management – interfacing with a range of stakeholders from various functions
- Risk and Opportunity Management – proactively manage R&O whilst identifying spend-to-save opportunities
- Validation of Cost Control methods – comparing actuals and forecasts to identify variances to budget, and support mitigation or corrective action
- Schedule Assessment – assess schedules/forecasts across a variety of business disciplines
- Integrated Baseline Management – successfully support on‑time and on‑cost delivery in accordance to planning principles and governance
- Project Reporting – creating material and delivering its presentation to a range of stakeholders
- Continuous improvement – proactively embracing change and proposing better ways of working
Qualifications
- Project Management or Project Control experience is desirable
- Open to change and comfortable with ambiguity
- Understanding of cost and resource loaded schedules
- Proficient with schedule and cost data, able to critically analyse and make informed recommendations
- Ability to prioritise workload and manage conflicting demands
- Strong communication skills with the skill to create and present complex datasets and topics
- A hands‑on approach with the willingness to give support to the Project Manager and manage smaller tasks self‑sufficiently
Project Manager in Farnworth employer: MBDA UK Ltd
MBDA is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment in Bristol that fosters personal and professional growth. With competitive benefits such as a generous company bonus, flexible working arrangements, and enhanced parental leave, employees are supported in achieving a healthy work-life balance. The collaborative culture encourages innovation and international networking, making it an ideal place for ambitious professionals to thrive in the fast-paced field of industrial transfer and offset management.
