Senior Project Leader - Multi-Site Transformation

DBD International; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20% bonus

25 days holiday

Enhanced pension

Private health insurance

Private dental

Job summary

DBD International seeks a Project Manager to lead a defined programme within the nuclear sector, overseeing deployment of new systems, processes, data and ways of working across one or more operational sites.

You will coordinate across business, technical, data, operational and change functions within a regulated environment, managing dependencies, risks and project governance to ensure successful delivery and readiness for operations.

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing complex projects within a multi-project programme or transformation environment.
• Experience delivering projects against defined time, cost, quality, scope and governance expectations.
• Experience coordinating business, technical, data, testing, change, training and operational-readiness activities.
• Strong leadership, communication, influencing, analytical and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership for the project throughout its lifecycle, maintaining focus on agreed outcomes.
• Establish clear direction, priorities and accountability across the project team.
• Coordinate delivery across multiple functions and resolve ambiguity, conflicts and gaps in ownership.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans covering activities, milestones, dependencies and key interfaces.
• Monitor project performance, challenge assumptions and identify emerging delivery risks and concerns.
• Manage changes to scope, priorities, resources and delivery plans, ensuring impacts are assessed and communicated.
• Maintain effective project governance, assurance and reporting arrangements.
• Provide senior stakeholders with clear, evidence-based updates on progress, risks, issues, priorities and delivery confidence.
• Proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies and cross-project impacts, escalating where appropriate.
• Identify and secure the capability and capacity required to deliver the project.
• Establish clear responsibilities and effective ways of working across matrix teams.
• Manage resource demand and availability, particularly where specialist capability is shared across concurrent projects.
• Build effective relationships with programme leadership, project teams, functional stakeholders, operational sites and suppliers.
• Ensure operational needs and constraints are understood and reflected in project delivery.
• Facilitate collaboration, alignment and decision-making across projects and organisational boundaries.
• Communicate complex information clearly to technical, operational and executive audiences.
• Coordinate business, data, technology and operational activities required for successful delivery.
• Manage interfaces and dependencies with other projects and workstreams, including shared resources and sequencing.
• Maintain focus on implementation readiness, user adoption and sustainable transition into operations.
• Maintain appropriate oversight of project costs, commitments and financial performance.
• Support commercial and investment decisions with clear project delivery insight.
• Manage supplier expectations and monitor their contribution to project outcomes.
• Ensure commercial decisions and changes support value, affordability and delivery objectives.
• Produce high-quality project documentation, reports, decision papers and executive presentations.

Job description

DBD International seeks a Project Manager to lead a defined programme within the nuclear sector, overseeing deployment of new systems, processes, data and ways of working across one or more operational sites.

You will coordinate across business, technical, data, operational and change functions within a regulated environment, managing dependencies, risks and project governance to ensure successful delivery and readiness for operations.