Assistant Project Manager in Glenrothes

Country: United Kingdom

Location: Glenrothes, Fife

Position Role Type: Hybrid

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defence company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.

Summary of Role:

The Raytheon UK Advanced Products team has a fantastic opportunity for a dynamic, high performing and experienced Assistant Project Manager to provide support and direction, as part of a high performing Integrated Project Team. The Assistant Project Manager provides critical support in the successful delivery of complex programmes by coordinating project activities, supporting governance processes, and ensuring effective communication across internal teams, suppliers, and customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project Coordination & Delivery Support
• Support the Programme Manager in the planning, execution, and monitoring of programme activities, ensuring key milestones, actions, and deliverables are effectively managed.
• Coordinate project workflows, track progress against agreed objectives, and support the resolution of risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Prepare regular updates and reports to support programme governance and decision-making.
• Logistics & Supply Chain Coordination
• Manage the raising and tracking of shipment requests, ensuring deliveries are coordinated efficiently and aligned with programme requirements.
• Support the management of returns and repairs contracts, coordinating activities between customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders to ensure timely resolution and contractual compliance.
• Export Governance & Technology Transfers
• Prepare and coordinate technology transfer documentation in line with export governance requirements, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations, policies, and approval processes.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders to ensure controlled information and technology movements are appropriately managed.
• Bid & Proposal Support
• Liaise with the Integrated Project Team (IPT) to gather technical, commercial, and operational inputs required for bids and proposals.
• Coordinate contributions from key stakeholders, ensuring submissions are accurate, complete, and delivered within required timescales.
• Support the preparation of compelling customer-facing proposals and supporting documentation.
• Programme Governance & Reporting
• Support Estimate at Completion (EAC) reviews by coordinating inputs, tracking cost and schedule performance, and highlighting key programme considerations.
• Assist with monthly programme reviews by preparing supporting materials, coordinating inputs, and ensuring actions are captured and progressed.
• Produce accurate and detailed meeting minutes, action trackers, and meeting summaries to support effective communication and follow-up by the Programme Manager.
• Customer Communication & Schedule Management
• Prepare and issue programme schedule updates for customers, ensuring information is accurate, timely, and aligned with agreed communication plans.
• Support customer engagement by providing clear, concise updates on progress, milestones, and upcoming activities.

Candidate Requirements:

Essential:

• Degree qualified in a technical, manufacturing or project management related discipline, or with equivalent non-academic experience.
• A recognized project management qualification is highly desirable.
• Experienced in project delivery with a successful track record in executing projects to schedule, budget and quality.
• Ability to execute to customer requirements.
• Experience in project financial reporting, ensuring a complete and accurate view is available on request.
• Awareness and understanding of Risk and Opportunity management.

Desirable:

• Experience of working in relevant domains.
• Supportive, with the character to navigate sensitive and pressurised situations to overcome delivery challenges.
• Experience in the preparation of proposals.
• Effective stakeholder management.
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.
• Innovative and proactive problem solver.
• Able to engage with technical experts with credibility and understanding.
• Able to manage and work within agreed budgets, forecast cost to complete.

What we offer:

• Competitive salaries.
• 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days.
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution).
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary).
• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension.
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes.
• Enhanced sick pay.
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave.

Work Culture:

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities.
• A grownup flexible working culture that is output, not time spent at desk, focussed.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.

Please ensure the role type defined below is appropriate for your needs before applying to this role. This position is classified as: Hybrid.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.