Digital/IT Transformation Project Manager

Snc-Lavalin; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Flexible holidays

Training & development

Employee rewards program

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Project Manager in its Secure Government division to enable organisations to maximise benefits from digital transformation and innovative operations. You will lead work packages or agile delivery teams, work with clients to shape delivery approaches, and coordinate multidisciplinary teams to achieve outcomes.

You will analyse performance, report insights, and support continuous improvement while maintaining delivery discipline and autonomy.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership across diverse technical specialists
• Proven experience delivering digital/IT transformation work packages or projects
• Ability to manage scope, schedule, budget and quality to meet client expectations
• Strong stakeholder engagement and trusted relationships
• Clear data analysis and presentation of insights
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams and shaping delivery approaches

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead defined work packages or small–to–medium projects.
• Ensure delivery meets agreed scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.
• Work directly with clients to shape delivery approaches.
• Manage risks and dependencies across delivery activities.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams to achieve project outcomes.
• Ensure outputs support successful digital transformation.
• Analyse performance and produce clear, insightful reporting.
• Guide team activity and support continuous improvement.
• Operate with autonomy while maintaining strong delivery discipline.
• Represent the Transformation Solution Practice and build client confidence.

Skills

Leadership

Delivery management

Stakeholder management

Agile

Risk management

Reporting

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Job Description Overview As a Project Manager in our Secure Government division, you’ll enable organisations to achieve maximum benefits from digital transformation and innovative operations. You'll work directly with clients, identifying, shaping and managing better delivery capabilities. You'll be supported to lead your own work packages or Agile delivery teams across our markets.

Your role

• Manage and lead defined work packages or small–to–medium projects.
• Ensure delivery meets agreed scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.
• Work directly with clients to shape delivery approaches.
• Manage risks and dependencies across delivery activities.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams to achieve project outcomes.
• Ensure outputs support successful digital transformation.
• Analyse performance and produce clear, insightful reporting.
• Guide team activity and support continuous improvement.
• Operate with autonomy while maintaining strong delivery discipline.
• Represent the Transformation Solution Practice and build client confidence.

About you

• Strong leadership skills with demonstrable experience of leading diverse technical specialists across a complex supply chain.
• Proven experience delivering digital and IT transformation work packages or projects within structured or agile environments.
• Ability to manage scope, schedule, budget and quality to meet client expectations.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, building trusted relationships.
• Confidence analysing project data and presenting insights clearly.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams and shaping delivery approaches.
• Strong facilitation skills across meetings, workshops and delivery sessions.
• Ability to anticipate risks, manage dependencies and support mitigations.
• Strong written communication, producing high‑quality reports and deliverables.
• Commercial understanding of project financials, contracts and supply chain impacts.
• Experience working in Defence, Transportation, Aviation, Water or Nuclear & Power Renewables is desirable.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.

• Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices.
• Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise.
• And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

Rewards and benefits – Careers at AtkinsRéalis

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world‑class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people. Find out more.

Additional information Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.

#LI-ADST | #LI-UK | #SGCampaign Worker Type Employee Job Type Regular At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world‑class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.

Created by the integration of long‑standing organizations dating back to 1911, AtkinsRéalis is a world‑class engineering services and nuclear company dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and technology to transform the world. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end‑to‑end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital. The breadth and depth of our capabilities are delivered to clients in strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear and Capital.

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