Associate Project Manager

QinetiQ Limited; Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 39,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

QinetiQ Limited in Farnborough is seeking an Associate Project Manager to support the SMEMR programme and related bid work, coordinating a geographically dispersed team and ensuring the infrastructure and ranges are capable, available and safe.

You will manage a portfolio of projects for the Maritime Training, Tactics, Test and Evaluation Transformation Inter Disciplinary Team and contribute to delivering outcomes within time, cost and quality baselines.

Qualifications

• Experience gained, typically between 1-3 years in project management or related delivery roles.
• Experience delivering defence, engineering and/or IT projects.
• Hold a recognised PM qualification (APM PPQ or Prince2).

Responsibilities

• Development and maintenance of positive engagement with project customers, partners and suppliers.
• Operating in a Safe & Secure manner
• Embedding a culture in line with the QinetiQ values
• Delivery of the project outputs, to agreed baseline (customer satisfaction, time, cost, quality, cash and sales)
• Ensuring project members operate in line with the Operating Framework & functional competency management requirements; and have appropriate personal objectives recorded in the QinetiQ performance management system
• Resolving conflicts (including prioritisation calls) within the project and collaborating across QinetiQ

Skills

Project management

Defence projects

IT projects

Job description

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Package: £38,700 - £43,000 (salary dependent on experience) + Benefits

Role ID: SF20284

Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Associate Project Manager at our Farnborough facility, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

The Role

The Maritime Training, Tactics, Test and Evaluation Transformation Inter Disciplinary Team (MTET IDT) are taking on new business from the MOD to grow our Maritime Ranging capabilities, and we are seeking a Associate Project Manager to assist with managing the portfolio of projects which make up the Submerged Electro-Magnetic Ranging (SMEMR) Programme and assist with the bid work as we put together our proposal for the BUTEC 24/7 Surge Programme.

You will be responsible for assisting the management of a geographically dispersed team. There are several stakeholders you will work with to achieve this and ensure the infrastructure and ranges are capable, available and safe.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Development and maintenance of positive engagement with project customers, partners and suppliers
• Operating in a Safe & Secure manner
• Embedding a culture in line with the QinetiQ values
• Delivery of the project outputs, to agreed baseline (customer satisfaction, time, cost, quality, cash and sales)
• Ensuring project members operate in line with the Operating Framework & functional competency management requirements; and have appropriate personal objectives recorded in the QinetiQ performance management system
• Resolving conflicts (including prioritisation calls) within the project and collaborating across QinetiQ

Essential experience of the Associate Project Manager :

• Experience gained, typically rather than necessarily, between 1-3 years of project management, or working in a related function that successfully delivered support to complex projects
• Experience delivering defence, engineering and/or IT projects

Desirable qualifications for the Associate Project Manager :

• Hold a recognised PM qualification (APM Project Professional Qualification (PPQ) or Prince2)
• Experience in Defence, Aerospace or other closely related sectors - Desirable

We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

This role is 37 hours per week and is based out of our Farnborough facility on a hybrid working pattern of 3 days per week on average, onsite.

Farnborough

At our Farnborough site exciting work takes place at our state-of-the-art facility, with high-energy laser technologies, our 5m pressurised wind tunnel which has a simulation capability that is unique in the UK and our large research and development projects is a real hub of creativity, research and innovation. Join our talented teams of Engineers, IT & Cyber Specialists, Project Managers, Group Functions Teams and many more to provide future defences in the UK.

Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.