Project Manager

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join our existing experienced team. Join our team and play a vital role in shaping some of our exciting projects where everyone has a voice, and together we face our clients' problems head-on. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, vendors, and business resources to ensure successful project delivery.

What do we look for in a Project Manager?

• Delivery focus - Providing benefit through iterative delivery.
• Teamwork - Enthusiasm to work cooperatively and supportively with others.
• Communication - Based on high emotional intelligence, able to listen and question effectively, with concise verbal and written communication skills and effective questioning/listening skills. Able to communicate with confidence at higher and lower levels.
• Flexibility - Willing to deliver on a broad range of tasks from providing advice on improving client's delivery to 'rolling up your sleeves' to assist the team and customer in delivery.
• Customer focus - Keen to deliver a high level of customer value.
• Achievement - Looks to exceed customer aspirations and work to goals and manages obstacles. Energy, pride and determination in meeting targets and overcoming challenges.
• Initiative - Ability to analyse situations; decompose work into key tasks and activities; find the elusive solution.
• Development - Not willing to stand still. Wants to continually develop new skills and undertake personal training.
• Integrity - Promote a high professional standard at all times.
• Experience in working with multiple project management methodologies.
• Knowledge of structured cabling systems (Cat 5e, Cat 6, fibre optic) and associated containment methods.
• Experience in managing low voltage infrastructure projects (data, voice, video, wifi).
• Familiarity/experience in delivery of network rooms/comms rooms/data centers.
• Market experience working within the UK Defence & Security sector is advantageous.

Responsibilities:

• Project management - The ability to manage all aspects of project delivery, including forecasting, change management and risk management.
• Oversee deliverables from cross-functional teams, vendors, and business resources.
• Foster open communication across teams to identify cross-team development dependencies and risks early on.
• Work with project accountants to manage project finances.
• Experience of working in a project delivery environment with a sound understanding of structured and agile methodologies and applying them in separate situations (e.g. APMP, MSP, Jira, Tempo, Scrum).

Problem solving: The ability to identify problems collaboratively and develop actions/solutions, communicating both to key stakeholders and presenting information through reports, dashboards and slides as appropriate.

Commercial awareness: Providing contract management, supplier management.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Engineering, Project Management, or related fields preferred or equivalent experience.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., APMP, Prince2, Agile Certification).
• Strong project management, risk management, and procurement management skills.
• Must be used to managing delivery teams in infrastructure environments or build environments.
• Familiarity with the Agile, Waterfall and Shape Up profiles and methodologies.
• Applicants must already be authorised to work in a highly controlled defence environment.

If you're ready to contribute to dynamic projects and grow your career in agile project management, apply today.

About SiXworks: SiXworks is a leading provider of secure digital solutions, specialising in digital experimentation and focused on fail-safe-fast cutting-edge technology solutions deployed in highly secure environments. We are unified in our mission to accelerate innovation and adoption of secure, digital technology to improve the operational agility of Defence and National Security. This is an exciting time for us, we have ambitious plans for continued growth and development, and we are seeking to add brilliant, experienced, motivated, and passionate people to our team to work with us on this journey.

Why join SiXworks? SiXworks' expertise includes Secure-by-Design, cloud computing, advanced network and infrastructure design, rapid application development, cross-security domain systems, multi-tenanted High-Performance Compute, multi-source data platforms, cyber vulnerability mitigation, and intelligence systems. We provide supplier-agnostic, technical, and business consultancy to customers while championing open-source and best-of-breed technologies.

What can we offer in return? SiXworks offers a unique work culture around our core principles Agility, Security, Innovation, Quality, Collaboration and Inclusivity. Together, these six principles form SiXworks' NORTH STAR, guiding the organisation towards success. This is reflected in the raft of benefits available to all our employees.

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Life Assurance Scheme.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• Professional Development opportunities.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Perks at Work scheme.
• Contributory company pension.
• Discretionary Bonus scheme.
• Secure, on-site parking, cafe, restaurant, and gym facilities.
• Casual dress.
• Free hot and cold drinks in our own, modern kitchen/break-out.

A word on UK Security Clearance: Due to the secure nature of the position and working environment, you must have, or be eligible to obtain Security Clearance including DV.

SiXworks is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organisation. SiXworks will be the hiring entity. By proceeding with this application, you understand that SiXworks will share your personal information with other IBM subsidiaries involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located.

SiXworks recognises the benefits of Reserve service to Country, Company and individual. We support Reservists and actively encourage them to apply. We are not considering submissions from agencies.