Resource Manager

QinetiQ; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits

Job summary

QinetiQ is seeking a Resource Manager for a 37-hour week, with the role based at Farnborough and other locations. The position focuses on the dynamic allocation of resources across engineering disciplines to meet both current and future work demands, ensuring successful delivery and individual development.

The role involves collaboration with Workforce Planning, Project Managers and Team Leads, with onsite presence required 3 days per week and eligibility for SC clearance.

Qualifications

• Interacting with a wide range of stakeholders and strong communication skills.
• Mentoring junior team members within a team.
• Ownership of actions and accountability for decisions and outcomes.
• Experience of managing and allocating resources.

Responsibilities

• Tactical decisions to deploy resources to meet new/changed work requests.
• Identify conflicts in workloads and propose solutions within timescales.
• Implement WFP policies and procedures within the Discipline and lead teams through WFP processes.
• Identify and drive process improvements and toolset enhancements with Senior RM support.
• Analyze constraints and improve practices to boost resource flexibility and productivity.
• Collaborate with RM community to provide a resilient resource planning service.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Resource allocation

Communication skills

Mentoring junior team members

Education

Level 3 education or equivalent

Job description

Package: Up to £45,000 (salary dependent on experience) + Benefits

Role ID: SF20529

Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Resource Manager, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

The Role

The Resource Managers purpose is to manage the dynamic allocation of resources to meet the tactical and future work demands across QinetiQ’s Engineering disciplines - maximising resource productivity with a focus on an individual’s success as well as enabling successful business delivery.

The role is embedded within a specific Discipline with primary responsibility for resources that are less complex in nature to resource and will operate as part of a collaborative of the Workforce Planning community to support wider business delivery.

The Resource Manager will be managing permanent, part time, contractors seeking to understand work demands (requests and changes) that arise from the business development, project delivery and engineering operations functions across all of QinetiQ.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Tactical Decisions: All tactical plans and decisions to direct the deployment of the Discipline’s resources to meet new and changed work requests seeking guidance from the Senior Resource Manager where necessary
• Complex Solutions: This role will be identifying conflict in workloads and proposing solutions in conflicting resource challenges in agreed timescales
• Procedure Implementation: Effectively implements the Workforce & Facility Planning (W&FP) policy and procedures within their Discipline and Leads Project Managers and Team Leads through the WFP processes
• Process Improvement: Confidence to join teams to proactively identify improvements to processes and toolsets in business operations, and when required works with Senior Resource Managers to implement and drive the change across the sub function
• Productivity Improvement: Proactively identify, analyse and highlight constraints and working practices that negatively impact on the flexibility, realisable capacity and productivity of the resources
• RM Community: Actively collaborates and support other Senior RMs to provide a continuous and resilient resource planning service

Essential experience of the Resource Manager

• Proven experience of interacting with a wide range of external and internal stakeholders and demonstrates strong communication skills
• Some experience of mentoring junior members within a team
• Evidence of committing to actions and takes responsibility for decisions and outcomes
• Experience of managing and allocating Resources

Desirable qualifications for the Resource Manager:

• Level 3 education or equivalent experience with typically 3 - 5 yrs further experience working across a multifaceted team

We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

This role is 37 hours per week and can be based at any one of our main facilities such as Farnborough, Bristol, Malvern, Boscombe Down or PTP with an expectation of being onsite 3 days per week.

Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.

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