PMO Planner – Zephyr Aerospace Programme

AALTO; Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-aligned full-time salary

Bonus/incentive plan

25 days holiday

Private medical insurance

Dental and optical cash back

Personal pension plan

Income protection and life assurance

Employee assistance programme

Perkbox discounts

Job summary

AALTO, based in Farnborough, seeks a PMO Senior Manager / Programme Manager to support governance, planning and controls for the Zephyr Programme. You will ensure schedules, risk registers and KPI dashboards are maintained while coordinating inputs from multiple stakeholders.

Hybrid role with occasional travel. The ideal candidate has aerospace/defence PMO experience and strong analytical, communication and Excel skills to drive programme success.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in Engineering, Business, Project Management or related discipline.
• Experience in aerospace, aviation or defence PMO, programme controls or project coordination.
• Knowledge of planning, scheduling, milestone tracking, dependency management, risk and issue management, change control.
• Strong analytical, organisational and communication skills with ability to manage priorities and present data clearly.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day coordination and control of the Zephyr Programme.
• Coordinate inputs from workstream leads, project managers and functional stakeholders.
• Support schedule maintenance, milestone tracking, dependency management and baseline updates.
• Prepare governance inputs, reports, dashboards and review materials for programme and executive forums.
• Maintain action, decision, issue, dependency, change, risk and opportunity records through to closure.
• Coordinate programme meetings, including agendas, minutes, actions, decisions and follow-up.
• Monitor progress and highlight variances, blockers and delivery risks.
• Support PMO process improvements, reporting consistency, digitalisation and lessons learned.

Skills

Analytical skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Degree or equivalent (Engineering/Business/PM)

PMO/Project management qualification (APM/PRINCE2/PMI)

Tools

Power BI

Microsoft Project

SharePoint

Planisware

Job description

AALTO, based in Farnborough, seeks a PMO Senior Manager / Programme Manager to support governance, planning and controls for the Zephyr Programme. You will ensure schedules, risk registers and KPI dashboards are maintained while coordinating inputs from multiple stakeholders.

Hybrid role with occasional travel. The ideal candidate has aerospace/defence PMO experience and strong analytical, communication and Excel skills to drive programme success.