Senior PMO Consultant

AtkinsRéalis; Manchester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Advanced training and professional development

Employee rewards and benefits

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis is looking for a PMO Consultant based in Manchester to support national security projects. This position requires strong PMO experience, focusing on project governance, financial management, and risk management.

The role offers a hybrid working culture with most time spent onsite, providing opportunities to develop your PMO skills and advance in your career. Successful candidates will have excellent communication skills and experience working in a multidisciplinary environment.

Qualifications

• Solid PMO experience across governance, controls, and delivery coordination.
• Experience in leading PMO activities such as reporting cycles and financial tracking.
• Proactive and collaborative approach in a client-facing environment.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery across important projects contributing to national security.
• Lead specific PMO workstreams and manage risks in delivery.
• Contribute to financial planning and performance management.

Skills

Strong PMO experience

Project governance

Financial management

Risk management

Communication skills

Data analysis

Tools

Excel

Power BI

MS Project

Job description

Overview

Build your PMO career. Strengthen delivery. Make an impact. At AtkinsRéalis, our PMO teams help bring structure, control and confidence to complex programmes. As a PMO Consultant within our Secure Government practice, you'll support delivery across important projects that contribute to national security and resilience, while continuing to build your own capability in a challenging and rewarding environment.

Your role

As a PMO Consultant within our Delivery Optimisation sub-practice, you'll bring established PMO experience and the confidence to lead defined areas of delivery. This role is aimed at professionals who understand effective project controls and governance, can operate with a good degree of autonomy, and are ready to broaden their impact in a specialist area such as PMO leadership, financial management or risk management.

You’ll work as part of multidisciplinary delivery teams to provide structure, coordination and insight across major secure‑government programmes. Depending on your experience, you may lead specific PMO workstreams, own reporting cycles, support governance forums, manage risks and issues, or contribute to financial planning and performance management. You'll be expected to operate confidently in a client‑facing environment, apply sound judgement, and help teams improve the quality and consistency of delivery controls.

This is a strong opportunity for someone who has built solid PMO experience and is now looking to broaden their impact, take ownership of defined areas, and further strengthen their professional practice in complex programme environments. We are particularly interested in candidates who combine core PMO capability with growing depth in either financial management or risk management.

All our roles are subject to a minimum of 3 days in the office, either onsite with our clients or at one of our AtkinsRéalis offices. These particular roles are based in Cheltenham and Manchester, and we are looking for candidates who can commit to being onsite for a minimum of 4 days per week.

About You

We are looking for candidates with strong PMO experience who can confidently lead defined elements of delivery. This could suit someone who has already worked across governance, controls, reporting, financial management or risk management and is ready to apply that experience with greater autonomy in a complex programme environment. It may also suit someone with broad PMO capability who has developed stronger depth in finance or risk and is looking to build on that further.

You'll Ideally Bring

• Strong PMO experience across project or programme governance, controls, reporting and delivery coordination.
• Experience of independently leading defined PMO activities, such as reporting cycles, governance coordination, control products, assurance support, financial tracking or risk management.
• Strength in one or more of the following areas: core PMO leadership, financial management, or risk management.
• The ability to work with data and tools such as Excel, Power BI, MS Project or similar to support effective decision‑making.
• Strong communication skills and the confidence to work with project teams, stakeholders and clients in a structured and professional way.
• An understanding of PMO frameworks, delivery lifecycles and the importance of robust controls in complex environments.
• A proactive and collaborative approach, with the judgement and professionalism to operate effectively in a client‑facing delivery environment.

Benefits

Hybrid working, with most time onsite to build relationships, access secure systems and operate effectively in high‑integrity delivery environments.

Clear opportunities to develop your PMO capability, build confidence in your area, and progress over time as your experience grows.

Advanced training, tools and frameworks, including financial controls, risk and assurance, planning, PMO transformation and change.

The AtkinsRéalis Certified Project Professional (ACPP) fast‑track route to APM Chartership.

A supportive PMO community with access to experienced colleagues, mentoring and practical development opportunities.

Inclusive networks (Women in Defence, Military networks, DE&I groups).

Meaningful work during the vetting process, if clearance is required.

Competitive salaries, employee rewards and benefits tailored to health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Training and professional development opportunities. Flexible holiday allowances and hybrid working culture.

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.

Security Clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If necessary, this 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 for 5 years or longer.

Equal Opportunities

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.