Project Manager - 15 Month Fixed Term Contract in Redhill

Rapiscan Systems is an industry leader in detection technology, providing cargo and vehicle inspection systems and services for ports, borders, military, high-threat facilities, and checkpoints to help customers combat terrorism, drug smuggling, illegal immigration, and trade fraud. We offer a broad array of scanning system configurations that leverage low-, medium-, and high-energy X-ray technology—or multiple X-ray technologies—to address each customer’s unique security application requirements.

This is a 15 month contract working directly for Rapiscan Systems based at our site in Redhill.

Role Overview

The Project Manager will be a ‘hands on, can do’ person responsible for the overall delivery of projects dealing with all Internal and External Stakeholders. The Project Manager will work within the Product and Certifications team, reporting to the Director of Aviation Security Approvals. He/she will be responsible for project managing all global Government certification and approval efforts for the Rapiscan Systems’ Detection Business. They will also manage trials, data collections and the administration of certification efforts.

The project manager will be responsible for arranging all certification, data collection and trialling efforts under the responsibility of the Product and Certifications team. This includes liaison and co-ordination with testing bodies, airports and various internal stakeholders and teams across all Rapiscan Detection Business Units.

Help develop, implement and maintain the equipment approvals testing process. Communicate to Senior Management and Product and Certifications team members through Project Reviews and other means, updates and snapshots of the Project including:

• Project schedule trackers
• Financial trackers
• Periodic reporting highlighting progress and issues in a timely manner.

Manage the following aspects of the Project:

• Monitor algorithm development, software and hardware readiness
• Risk management plan development and mitigation strategy.
• Co-ordinate internally between government affairs team and other stakeholders including Service, Engineering and Product Line Management teams
• Co-ordinate externally with test laboratories, testing authorities, customers, contractors
• Take ownership of all elements of the project.

Document the Project including:

• Maintaining the Project Gantt or Schedule.
• Reporting of progress
• Collect relevant required documentation for individual projects
• Manage pre testing and internal gating reviews prior to shipment for test / trial
• Co-ordinate deliveries of equipment and deployment of support staff
• Confirm System complete to BoM prior to Shipping and on arrival at Site including Install Tools and Spares Packages and in full compliance with the documentation requirements.
• Manage sourcing of parts and services required by the Project.
• Work with the identified Installation and training resources to ensure that all availability, travel, planning, labour and other resources are in place to complete the Project.
• Attend project meetings, provide meeting minutes, and coordinate between the customer and the Government Affairs and Certification teams.
• Report any quality problems or defects arising during the Project, in order for corrective action to be implemented and to avoid recurrence of the problem.

Uphold the Company’s core values of Integrity.

Candidate Requirements

• Proven years relevant experience as a Project Manager.
• A good communicator with excellent written and oral communication skills. Able to articulate both the Product and Process to any Customer or Project Stakeholder.
• Ability to develop robust plans, assess risk, develop and drive mitigation plans.
• Have managed equipment installation Projects ideally globally but certainly within UK, Europe and/or North America
• Ideally, will have knowledge of aviation security, screening or inspection equipment, and have some familiarity with approvals and testing processes.
• Experience of multi-stakeholder projects.
• Ability to travel to Project Sites as required a plus.

Knowledge Training and Qualifications:

• Ideally the candidate would hold or be able to obtain a UK security clearance.