Senior Project Manager Front End Development
We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead the delivery of Front End Design Development within a nuclear facility.
Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.
Package: Salary from £62,440 (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)
Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.
Let us introduce the role
Your focus will be on steering the team to meet timescales, monitoring project progress, commercially managing delivery partners, and delivering to cost, quality, and safety. You will be leading and working within a matrix team to ensure project success thus enabling AWE’s critical mission. In your role you will:
* Manage projects with focus on Governance (compliance and reporting).
* Management of project resources (people, money).
* Lead the planning of the task/project or function.
* Manage work as defined in the Work Authorisation Document (WAD).
* Lead, support, and initiate change against the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB).
* Lead, initiate and perform risk and opportunity identification and subsequent actions.
* The Company may require you to fulfil any other reasonable duties aligned to your position from time to time in line with business needs.
Whilst not to be considered a check list, candidates should be able to demonstrate some of the following:
* Demonstrable experience working in Front End Design Development within a similar highly regulated industry would be beneficial, ideally with an engineering/Design background.
* Commercial aptitude with an understanding of NEC4 contract management.
* A Project Management practitioner qualification/membership or equivalent experience would be beneficial.
* Demonstrating excellent stakeholder management skills and natural ability to build and maintain customer relationships across all levels.
* Experience to manage multiple and/or complex, high value, cross-functional projects.
* Skills to create and update all project documentation, including project management plans and supporting risks, assumptions, actions, issues & dependencies.
* Demonstrable application of methods to track project deliverables including implementing key performance indicators and producing project progress reports.
* Ability to lead and initiate risk techniques to manage complex project risks and interdependencies with efficient mitigation and contingency plans.
* Experience to manage projects through a lifecycle and the associated governance, including stage gate approvals.
* Dynamic and supportive approach to team management, encouraging and empowering team members to quickly adapt and respond to change and to adopt the company’s vision.
Some reasons we think you’ll love it here:
AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include:
* 9-day working fortnight – meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
* Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
* Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
* Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
* Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
* Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
* Discounts – access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
* Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.
Next steps:
Everyone who works at AWE brings unique skills and perspectives to the table. We recognise that great people don’t always ‘tick every box’. That’s why we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience. Even if you don’t meet every point above, but you feel that this role and AWE are a great fit for you, please go ahead and apply, we’d love to receive your application.
Important things you need to know:
* You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.
* We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.
* Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.
Please note that you must be a British Citizen to apply for a role with us.
Our ambition is to create workplaces where we recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and our employees feel able to be themselves at work. We strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants. Any inclusion information you provide us will be used to encourage and support you through the application process and will be held only for this purpose in accordance with GDPR.
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