Manufacturing Project Manager in Glasgow

Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. Together we offer opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space.

Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you flexibility to work in ways that suit you, where possible including part time, job sharing, home working, or flexible start/finish times.

Do you have experience of driving the effective delivery of development projects and working closely with stakeholders to achieve project goals? Do you have a passion for driving innovative solutions and challenging the status quo to revolutionise our offering? Do you enjoy building relationships and working within a complex engineering environment?

What the role has to offer:

• Opportunity to work as a Work Package Manager on test engineering projects, managing a key element of the project.
• Responsible for tasking, resource management, budget adherence, performance monitoring, reporting and on time delivery within the work package.
• Work with a range of complex internal and external stakeholders, helping to identify and mitigate project risks.
• Strive to achieve efficient on time quality deliverables.
• Support the PM by acting as their delegate on a mutually agreed basis.

Core Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package, which includes:
• Performance-related bonus
• 37 hours a week working Mon – Thurs. (0600-0730) start for a (1545-1715) finish
• 201 hours annual leave (plus bank holidays) plus opportunity to buy up to 40 hours/year (pro rata)
• 24 hours volunteering paid for
• Private healthcare (grade dependent)
• Pension scheme
• Life cover
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
• Gym membership discounts

Key responsibilities:

• Generation and maintenance of Work Package estimates.
• Definition of the Work Package scope, including deliverables & milestones.
• Formal acceptance of the Work Package in consultation with and on behalf of the team who will be delivering the Work Package scope.
• Allocation of tasks to the delivery team, overseeing progress and co-ordinating delivery as required.
• Ensuring Work Package activities are defined, organised and planned in accordance with budget, scheduling, performance and quality requirements.
• Regular reporting on Work Package progress using the defined template(s).
• Ensure delivery of the Work Package continuously meets the requirements as set out in the WPDD.
• Ensure that Work Package quality is maintained to the correct standard to assure customer and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Identify, act upon and communicate risks, issues and opportunities developing mitigation actions to support successful Work Package delivery.
• Ensure the Work Package is closed effectively (e.g. archiving of documents, closing the expenditure authorisations, capitalising and sharing lessons learnt).

About you:

• Proven experience as a Work Package Manager, Assistant Project Manager, or Project Manager in a large complex organisation, with people management responsibilities.
• Understanding of project goals, objectives, and strategy for achieving these, ability to then translate to objectives and strategy for a work package.
• Experience of managing project risks and opportunities proactively with internal and external stakeholders.
• An understanding of the financial cycle of a project.
• Proven experience supporting customer negotiations.
• Effective at operating across functional and departmental boundaries (working in a matrix style organisation).

Security and eligibility:

This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant will undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance.

To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.

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