Location: We operate a flexible, hybrid working environment with the candidate required to travel to either our Winchester office twice a week.
We offer:
* Up to 67k base salary
* 10% Bonus
* 6% pension contribution
* Private Medical
* 25 days annual leave
* Access to our comprehensive flexible benefits including discounts on big brands, wellness and employee assistance programmes, gymflex, buy and sell annual leave, travel and dental insurance
The Role:
* Leading and setting priorities for teams of engineering specialists delivering design and build engineering service
* Define the technical scope, goals and deliverables and input to the Project Initiation Document
* Plan, identify and define the technical tasks and resources required to deliver the project and produce a comprehensive plan establishing timelines, dependencies and critical paths for technical activities
* Plan, identify and assign the technical team members, both direct and virtual, required to deliver the project, agree allocation of activities and manage delivery of technical items throughout the project lifecycle and manage within the project budget allocated
* Establishing process and policy within own area of responsibility with the Business Unit/Division
* Engaging with key stakeholders to define requirements and ensure the solution is designed and planned to meet or exceed business expectations
* Defining the performance criteria and standards for sub-contractors and suppliers and manage delivery against these and provide technical assurance activities throughout the build and implementation phase
* Driving the adoption and application of engineering standards and procedures and provide expert technical guidance to internal and external stakeholders
* Forecasting capital and operational costs and delivering engineering services within the defined budgets
* Driving the adoption of technical and preventative maintenance standards for networks and systems within own operational area
* Ensuring safety, health and environment standards and policies are fully and consistently implemented
* Manage customer relationships and interactions across the project, providing regular progress reports and responding to customer feedback
* Track progress against project deliverables and report progress to all stakeholders
* Use defined Arqiva processes to manage changes to project scope, risks, issues and overall project governance
* Deliver an effective project handover to the customer and operational teams, ensuring capability to maintain agreed standards of performance
* Evaluate each project against its scope and objectives and produce a Project Closure Report
* Identify 3rd party suppliers and ensure their standards of delivery, product specification and documentation are aligned to project requirements
* Drive innovation, both small and large, into and through the business; deploy and evidence with outcomes, a continuous improvement (CI) mind-set
* Bring a commercial perspective to the operation, with a particular focus on cash management, cash preservation and optimising returns on investments made in assets and tools
The Person:
Qualifications: Minimum of relevant entry level project management qualification such as APM Project Management Fundamentals or Prince 2 Foundation
Required Expertise:
* Comprehensive knowledge of project management lifecycles, project governance, methodologies/frameworks and processes.
* Experience of risk and issue identification and management with internal teams or 3rd parties.
* Experience of project change control and configuration.
* Extensive experience in Radio Access Network Technical Delivery including all aspects from Customer Change Request, inception of project through design, development, testing, and roll out of releases.
Required Technical / Professional Skillset(s):
* Strong knowledge of technologies involved in Utility data collection, processing and management.
* Radio Access Network (Sensus), Software Product Suite, OSS (Comarch), Comms Hubs (EDMI).
Why join Arqiva? We are the undisputed leader in UK TV and radio broadcast, and the UK’s leading Smart utilities platform. This means we have a strong heritage and foundation for future growth for you to grow your career with us.
Our journey is to transition global media distribution to cloud solutions, where we aim to double our revenue and continue to grow by being an innovator of scalable solutions for new connectivity sectors. We have opportunities in new technology applications and products, you will have opportunities to learn and develop with us.
Your wellbeing: Our wellbeing mission is to help our people to be the best version of themselves at work and still have the time and energy to live a full life outside of work.
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