Senior Project Manager (Digital)

Make sure to read the full description below, and please apply immediately if you are confident you meet all the requirements. Engineered to Protect, that's our promise, we protect what matters - our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world. You will undertake project management activities for projects across the project lifecycle including preparing bids and post project support. You may also provide project and bid support on more complex projects. Project Manager will be based at our Barnstaple site. This role allows for flexible working. The salary for this role is up to £64k, depending on experience.

What you'll be doing:

• Plan, schedule and manage projects, tasks and work packages, taking responsibility for the outcomes, budget, quality and timescales.
• Allocation and management of tasks with project delivery teams, holding regular meetings to track progress. This may include meetings with customers and subcontractors who are part of the delivery team.
• Identification, management and tracking of project risks and opportunities, maintaining registers of Customer Furnished Equipment/Information and customer dependencies, ensuring that project documentation is correctly configuration controlled.

About our company:

At SEA, we develop and deliver advanced solutions to make our world safer, cleaner and more efficient. We provide state-of-the-art applications for naval ship and fleet protection, and undersea surveillance systems. In-service across the globe, our systems deliver a rapid response to threats and system effectiveness and interoperation. Our systems support an ever-growing number of navies across the world, and we continue to bolster our already specialist, on-the-ground knowledge of key overseas markets.

What we offer:

• Work life balance
• Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
• 25 days annual leave, plus buy and sell
• Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual
• Half day Fridays
• Reservists in the Armed Forces receive special paid leave
• Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program
• All Staff Bonus
• Group Pension Plan of up to 7% employer contribution
• Cycle to work scheme
• Wellbeing Centre
• Sports & Social activities
• Employee Discounts portal - online and in-store discounts, travel savings
• Life assurance policy
• Publication and recruitment bonus rewards
• Development opportunities, including LinkedIn learning

Facilities & resources:

• Electric vehicle charging points at all sites
• Private seated lunch areas
• Onsite bistro (Barnstaple office) and free hot and cold beverages
• Onsite showers and toiletries provision
• Free onsite parking

The skills you need:

• APM PMQ qualification, or equivalent
• Proven project management experience delivering complex design & development projects through all phases of the engineering lifecycle
• Excellent knowledge and application of project controls in complex projects
• Experience working in defence, aerospace or within a similar engineering environment would be desirable
• An excellent communicator and able to demonstrate both effective change and conflict management with highly developed influencing skills
• Hands-on experience of working with project management tools, such as Microsoft Project, risk registers, etc. including the ability to use advanced features when necessary
• Strong problem-solving abilities, with a proactive approach to achieving results

Join us and be part of something smaller - with 500 people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger: protecting what matters.