Project Manager

ULTRA ELECTRONICS; Taplow; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm is seeking a Project Manager based at their Cyber Centre of Excellence in Maidenhead. The role involves managing multiple engineering projects, ensuring they meet financial and scheduling constraints. Candidates should have project management experience in regulated sectors, excellent communication skills, and proficiency in project management tools. Benefits include an annual bonus, private medical cover, and flexible working hours.

Benefits

Annual Bonus

Private Medical Cover

25 days' holiday with option to buy additional days

Pension Contribution

Life Assurance Cover

Flexible working hours

Cycle to work scheme and other flexible benefits

Monthly Security Clearance Allowance

Qualifications

• Experience in project management in regulated sectors.
• Ability to deliver complex projects successfully.
• Willingness to achieve and maintain security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple projects up to ~£10m.
• Control project schedules and costs against the budget.
• Achieve project acceptance to schedule and cost.

Skills

Project management experience

Strong communication skills

Stakeholder management

Proficiency with MS Office

Experience in regulated sectors

Education

Project Management qualification (preferred)

Tools

MS Project

MS Office

Job description

Overview

As Project Manager, you will work with specialists from a range of engineering disciplines, providing project management expertise to deliver projects and bids on time, to budget and to the required standard. Based at our Cyber Centre of Excellence in Maidenhead - hybrid working is available.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple projects ranging in size up to ~£10m
• Manage projects to meet the required financial and project constraints
• Establish, control and report project schedule & costs against an overall WBS & budget
• Achieve acceptance of all elements of projects to schedule and cost
• Accurately forecast project cost, cash & resource demands
• Experience in project management, specifically in setting up, running and successfully delivering projects, ideally in the defence electronics or other highly regulated sector
• Experience in managing and delivering multi-disciplined projects in a matrix structure
• Experience in a customer-facing environment
• Proficient in MS Office including MS Project
• Possesses a Project Management qualification (preferred)
• Excellent general written and verbal communications skills
• Willing to undergo, and able to achieve and maintain, SC and/or DV security clearance

Qualifications

• Project management experience and ability to deliver complex projects, ideally in regulated sectors
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Proficiency with project management tools (MS Project, MS Office)

Benefits

• Annual Bonus
• Private Medical Cover
• 25 days' holiday with the option to buy an extra 5
• Pension Contribution
• 4 x Life Assurance Cover
• Flexible working hours with a 1pm finish on a Friday
• Flexible benefits including cycle to work scheme, will writing and more
• Monthly Security Clearance Allowance - Subject to you holding the required security clearance