Senior Resource Manager - 12 month FTC

QinetiQ; Amesbury; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched contribution pension

Private Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Employee discount portal

Job summary

QinetiQ is seeking a Resource Manager to lead the dynamic allocation of resources across engineering disciplines on a 12-month fixed term contract. You will manage permanent staff, contractors and part‑time resources, working within a community of RM colleagues to deliver across disciplines.

The role focuses on maximizing productivity while safeguarding individual wellbeing, with accountability for demand, forecast, and recruitment considerations.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years experience across a multifaceted team.
• Direct experience managing and allocating resources (perm, part-time, contractors).
• Proven ability to engage with senior stakeholders and mentor juniors.
• Experience working across disciplines to support business delivery.

Responsibilities

• Make tactical decisions on deploying discipline resources to meet work requests.
• Balance conflicting requirements and ensure timely delivery of work.
• Collaborate with demand/supply stakeholders and other RMs on complex solutions.
• Support discipline forecasting, demand highlighting, and routine project meetings.

Skills

Resource management

Leadership

Communication

Negotiation

Analytical thinking

Decision making under pressure

IT systems proficiency

Education

Level 3 qualification

2+ years resource management experience

Tools

Master scheduling system

Job description

Role Type: Temporary - Full Time - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Role ID: 20530

Salary: Up to £50k depending on experience

The role purpose is to lead and 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 that Discipline's resources (possibly with another RM for a large Discipline) but also operates as part of a collaborative RM community and therefore has a secondary responsibility to work across all Disciplines to support wider business delivery.

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

Key Accountabilities:

Informed by the Group Leads and Team Leads in their embedded Discipline, the role is accountable for:

• Tactical Decisions: All tactical plans and decisions to direct the deployment of the Discipline's resources to meet new and changed work requests.

Effective allocation will achieve:

• Resolution or compromise between conflicting requirements.
• Effective delivery of all work being demanded (previous and new).
• Understands the impact and risks involved when suggesting Resources and highlighting to the Engineering leadership and the Programmes team on the Technical Community being able to supply resource and recommend actions including demonstrating the need for recruitment.
• Maximising resource productivity and utilisation while having a duty of care for an individual's wellbeing if their skills are in high demand.
• Reflecting the competencies and constraints of each resource
• Understand engineering disciplines / skills in high demand and communicate via shared tools.
• Establishes a network of contacts, and uses connections to learn about the business and its functions. Engages regularly with the Business and Technical community to establish a good understanding of the customer

a. Complex Solutions: This role will be resolving conflicting resource challenges in agreed timescales. Collaboration will be required with demand and supply stakeholders and fellow RMs working through complex solutions with disciplines in line with business needs.

b. Procedure Implementation: Effectively implementing the Workforce & Facility Planning (W&FP) policy and procedures within their Discipline, including managing the master schedule system of requests and allocations through the corporate processes including achieving the target response timescales at each stage.

c. Process Improvement: Proactively identifying improvements to processes and toolsets in business operations, and when required, implement and drive the change across the function.

d. Productivity Improvement: Proactively identify, analyse and highlight constraints and working practices that negatively impact on the flexibility, realisable capacity and productivity of the resources. With the Group Leads, propose corresponding improvement changes

e. Workforce Planning Community(WFP): Actively collaborate and support other Senior/ Assoc RMs to provide a continuous and resilient resource planning service. Gain sufficient familiarity with other disciplines and work as a community to provide mutual cover and support. Accountable for own professional development

f. Responsible for being an IDT POC. Support demand managers to highlight missing or inaccurate demand. Support the business at routine/ adhoc project meetings when required, feeding back to WFP Managers on issues arising or needing investigation.

g. Support to Disciplines at Supply review meetings and seeks to understand the Operational Business Planning process to understand tactical and longer-term resource planning.

Key Capabilities/Knowledge:

• Confidence to make complex decisions under uncertainty and pressure
• Leadership ability to ensure that decisions are implemented in accordance with agreed plans and robust conversations to challenge accepted working practices.
• Exhibit flexible and adaptable qualities to be a high performer in a dynamic environment.
• Understands the need to be flexible as Business Requirements change and to maintain integrity when privy to sensitive information. Adapts to changes in requirements and feels comfortable to support Assoc/Resource Managers on how to respond
• Strong organisational and communication skills to include a wide variety of different stakeholders.
• Demonstrable negotiating and influencing skills with the ability to build strong relationships.
• Able to rapidly assimilate a complex situation, identify and focus on the key issues to achieve a desired business outcome.
• Demonstrable high level of IT competency including the ability to learn new systems and packages as required.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, including innovative and creative thinking using logical reasoning and supported by objective evidence.
• Demonstrate the ability to quickly understand the characteristics of the Global Technical Community

Experience & Qualifications:

• Level 3 education or equivalent experience with typically 3 - 5 yrs further experience working across a multifaceted team
• Direct experience of managing and allocating resources – at least 2 years desirable
• Proven experience of interacting with a wide range of external and internal stakeholders including senior management
• Proven experience of mentoring junior members within a team

Our Recruitment Process:

At QinetiQ we are committed to building an inclusive, accessible and welcoming workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We believe that a diverse mix of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences drives innovation and leads to better outcomes for our people, customers and communities. We encourage applications from all candidates and are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing [e-mail], and one of our recruitment team will contact you.

Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which means factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there's never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

As a QinetiQ employee, you'll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experiences enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you'll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture. www.qinetiq.com/en/careers/life-at-qinetiq

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Competitive holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days
• Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme