SC Cleared Digital Thread & Integration PMO - Digital Engineering

Synergize Consulting Ltd; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 81,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Synergize Consulting Ltd. is seeking a technically minded PMO professional with active SC clearance to support a major digital engineering programme in the UK defence sector. The hybrid role requires 2-3 days in Reading with remote work options.

You will coordinate PMO activities across digital engineering, IT integration and supplier interfaces, ensuring plans, risks and deliverables stay on track while collaborating with engineering and delivery teams.

Qualifications

• SC clearance is essential.
• Experience in PMO, project coordination or technical project support within complex engineering/defence environments.
• Strong organisational, communication and follow-up skills.
• Comfortable coordinating activities across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Familiarity with engineering tools and lifecycle processes.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate PMO activities across digital engineering and systems integration workstreams.
• Maintain project plans, milestones, risks, issues and actions.
• Support integration activities across engineering environments and tools.
• Track interfaces and dependencies between engineering systems.
• Organise and support technical meetings, reviews and governance sessions.
• Maintain delivery roadmaps and programme documentation.
• Monitor progress and communicate risks and delivery impacts.

Skills

SC clearance

PMO

Coordination

Stakeholder management

Excel

PowerPoint

Microsoft Project

Tools

Microsoft Project

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

We are looking for a technically minded SC or DV-cleared PMO professional to support a major digital engineering programme within the UK defence and aerospace sector.

Key notes:

• SC Clearance is essential as a min
• Hybrid: WFH and 2-3 days in Reading
• Rate: £71 per hour (Inside IR35)

This role sits at the intersection of project coordination, digital engineering and systems integration, helping ensure that different engineering tools, systems, teams and suppliers work together effectively across a complex programme.

You'll support the coordination of the Digital Thread and engineering IT integration, keeping plans, dependencies, risks, actions and deliverables on track while working closely with engineering, technical and delivery teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate PMO activities across digital engineering, engineering IT and systems integration workstreams.
• Maintain project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues and actions.
• Support integration activities across engineering environments, including PLM, ALM, MBSE and requirements management tools.
• Track interfaces and dependencies between engineering systems, including API and Middleware integration where relevant.
• Organise and support technical meetings, workshops, reviews and governance sessions.
• Maintain delivery roadmaps, supplier trackers, status reports and programme documentation.
• Monitor progress against milestones, highlighting risks, blockers and potential delivery impacts.
• Work with technical leads, engineers, project managers and suppliers to ensure actions and deliverables are followed through.
• Support clear communication and reporting across multiple technical workstreams.
• Experience in a PMO, project coordination or technical project support role within a complex engineering, technology or defence environment.
• Experience maintaining project plans, RAID logs, dependencies, actions, milestones and delivery reporting.
• Confidence coordinating activities across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Strong organisational, communication and follow-up skills.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; experience with Microsoft Project is beneficial.
• Comfortable working with technical teams and understanding complex engineering systems, interfaces and dependencies.
• Active SC security clearance.
• Background in the defence, aerospace or other highly regulated engineering sectors.
• Exposure to digital engineering, digital thread or systems integration programmes.
• Familiarity with PLM, ALM, MBSE, requirements management or engineering lifecycle tools.
• Experience coordinating suppliers and managing cross-domain dependencies.