Senior Project Manager

Marshall Land Systems; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days holiday increasing to 30

Pension contributions up to 9%

Private medical insurance for you and


Company car allowance

Cycle to Work

Life assurance 4x basic salary

Enhanced parental leave and pay

Paid volunteering leave

Wellbeing resources

Job summary

Marshall Land Systems in Cambridge seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead delivery of complex projects in a fast-paced engineering environment. You will own day-to-day delivery, managing budgets, schedules and quality across an IPT and supply chain interfaces.

Role emphasises collaboration, governance, and lifecycle processes with hybrid on-site work and UK clearance readiness. Strong PM credentials and sector experience are highly valued.

Qualifications

• Degree-level education in engineering, business or defence studies.
• PM certification such as PRINCE2, APM PMQ, PMI PMP, MSP or APM Risk Level 2.
• Strong ICT skills with MS Office and project tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Experience using MS Project or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Deliver projects on time, within budget, and to high quality standards.
• Lead the IPT and coordinate cross-functional teams.
• Manage costs, schedules, procurement, and subcontract issues.
• Collaborate with procurement and supply chain for subcontracts.
• Own project budget and report BAC/EAC/ETC with variance analysis.
• Oversee revenue, cash and margin targets for the project.
• Proactively manage risks, opportunities, and change management.
• Support Lifecycle Management and governance sign-off.
• Coordinate resources and provide IBP foresight for bids/projects.
• Capture and implement lessons learned.

Skills

Project management

IPT leadership

Budget & cost control

Risk management

Stakeholder communication

Procurement coordination

Collaboration

MS365 tools

MS Project

Education

Degree in engineering / defence studies / related field

PM certification: PRINCE2/APM/PMI/MSP

Tools

MS Project

MS365 (Word, Excel)

Job description

Why join Marshall Land Systems in this role:

As a Senior Project Manager, you will be leading the delivery of complex and high-impact projects that support critical customer and business objectives. In this role, you’ll take ownership of day to day project delivery, ensuring programmes are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards while working within a collaborative and fast paced engineering environment.

The responsibilities in this role include:

• Project deliverables & requirements across all functions. These are to be clearly articulated, documented and shared across the IPT and wider organisation as appropriate.
• Lead the Project assigned IPT for assigned Project(s).
• Manage and resolve matters relating to costs, work schedules, commercial technical and production issues.
• Working with the assigned Procurement & Supply Chain colleagues, support the delivery of subcontracts, as required, ensuring delivery is in line with project needs.
• Ownership of the Project budget, leading and approving allocation to the appropriate Work Package and associated WBS items. Ensuring BAC, BAC(changes), EAC and ETCs are reviewed and reported accurately with any cost variance clearly understood; ensuring parametric and trend analysis results are fully utilised with little to no ‘opinion based’ reporting.
• Management of all other project financial targets in support of Revenue, Cash and Margin.
• Proactively manage risks and opportunities, collaborating with others, in particular assigned Project Controller(s).
• Accountable for the Project Change Management regime.
• Undertake additional activities as required by line management.
• Support the adherence of the Lifecycle Management (LCM) Processes. Preparing and managing the tailored processes through governance sign-off.
• Support the co-ordination of resource requirements - ensuring data inputs are submitted to the IBP team for the bids and projects; presenting IBP foresight for upcoming activities.
• Support and manage effective 'Lessons Learned' activities.

Apply if you have most of the following:

• Delivering projects ideally in the defence sector.
• Working in an Engineering / manufacturing environment.
• Worked within, or lead multi-functional teams in a collaborative matrix-managed ‘IPT’ environment.
• Desirable: Knowledge of systems engineering and how to apply in a Project environment.
• Ideally, experience of procurement & supply-chain contract delivery and manufacturing processes. Experience of the full product development lifecycle of complex integrated systems; New Product Development (NPD) and New Production Introduction (NPI).
• Some knowledge of engineering development techniques for projects including: technical requirements management, development and qualification validation and verification phases, technical risk, concurrency of design and production, project planning, project control, change management, performance measurement, cost control and risk & opportunity management.
• Working within matrix organisations, in particular collaboration with engineering, operations, supply chain and quality within an IPT.

Technical skills/education:

• Degree-level education, preferably in engineering, business, or defence studies.
• Project / Programme Management certification such as PRINCE2, APM (PMQ), PMI (PMP) or MSP and APM Risk Level 2.
• Strong ICT skills, including but not limited to MS365 tools such as Word and Excel.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• MS-Project or equivalent.
• Collaboration including identification and delivery of value for stakeholders.

Additional Local Needs

• Hybrid working offered – 3 days on site in Cambridge, UK.
• Successful candidate will need to be eligible to hold UK SC Clearance.

The benefits we will offer you include:

• 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell)
• Pension contributions up to 9%
• Private medical insurance for you and your partner
• Company car allowance
• Extensive flexible benefit program including Cycle to Work
• Life assurance at 4x basic salary
• Enhanced parental leave and pay
• Paid volunteering leave
• Access to industry leading wellbeing resources and tools

Marshall Land Systems is a Canadian-owned global company with an unrivalled pedigree of British engineering excellence. From its origins in Cambridge, UK, through more than a century of innovation, pioneering advances from the nose of Concorde to the early Hydrogen fuel cell technology that ultimately powered the moon landings, Marshall engineers now continue to innovate specialist vehicles and infrastructure for NATO forces across the world. From bomb disposal vehicles to deployed shelters, from command and control to CT scanners on the battlefield, Marshall Land Systems protects people in critical situations with the very best in engineering. It employs 600 people with major facilities the UK, Canada, and the Netherlands.