Project Manager

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Corsham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in defense communications seeks a Skynet Project Manager to join their innovative team in Corsham. This hybrid role requires managing complex MILSATCOM projects and offers opportunities for professional development. You'll work mostly from home, ensuring successful delivery through effective team management and stakeholder engagement.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Holiday Trading benefit

Flexible working options

Excellent development opportunities

Volunteering leave ('Be Kind Day')

Qualifications

• Experience in contract change process and developing proposal responses.
• Previous involvement in complex defense or telecommunication projects preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage an integrated project delivery team ensuring successful project delivery.
• Lead stakeholder engagement and risk response planning.
• Establish and maintain governance for project delivery.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Project Coordination

Change Management

Risk Management

Education

APMP/Prince2 or similar PM Qualifications

Job description

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Project Manager

Location:

Corsham, GB, SN13 9NP

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Skynet Project Manager
Location: Corsham, Wiltshire, UK + Hybrid Working
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time and Permanent
Role ID: SF64445

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Skynet Project Manager at one of our sites throughout the UK. You’ll be working from home most of the time but must be willing to travel into one of our hubs when required.

The role
As a Skynet Project Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be joining the transformation team who tackle all things change. You’ll be supporting vital MILSATCOM (military satellite communication) systems one day and developing new technologies the next. Your work will contribute to shaping the future of satellite communication systems within defence. And, with our track record of innovation, you’ll continually develop your knowledge and expertise.

Day-to-day, you’ll:

• Manage the change and co-ordination of an integrated project delivery team ensuring that successful delivery of projects through planning monitoring and control in an INCOSE Systems Engineering environment
• Manage stakeholders including Engineering, Operations, supply chain, client engagement and partners. Identification, monitoring, planning, implementing responses and reporting of risks
• Lead the project to deliver world class performance by means of employee engagement, continuous improvement/change and identifying and implementing the latest technology
• Establish and maintain governance arrangements for the delivery of the project, defining clear roles, responsibilities and accountabilities

This role is full time and consists of a 37-hour working week. We are adaptable on location and the role can be delivered from various locations. You’ll be working from home most of the time but must be willing to travel into one of our hubs when required.

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Experience of the Skynet Project Manager:

• Contract change process, and developing proposal responses to change requests
• Previous experience on a complex defence and telecommunication projects / programmes, preferably MILSATCOM – desirable
• Technical work package experience in areas such as site, FM and IT – desirable

Qualifications for the Skynet Project Manager:

• APMP/Prince2 or similar PM Qualifications

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a SOLE UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check(SC)security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available atUnited Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What We Offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

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