We are looking for a proven, proactive, and passionate Project Manager who can lead and motivate a team to deliver some of the world’s most innovative space projects to a diverse customer base including institutional, export, and defence.
Key Tasks
Role to include, but not limited to:
1. Manage projects or aspects of a project from contract commencement through development and delivery of space and ground segments, launch preparation, in-orbit commissioning, and subsequent service delivery and operations.
2. Be responsible for all aspects of the project, or a major element of a programme, working in accordance with the established procedures & processes developed within SSTL (including schedules, deliverables lists, management plans, management of risks, technical maturity gates, earned value management, etc).
3. Day-to-day management of the project core team activities to ensure the entire project is progressing in line with the baseline plan, with the expectation of strong leadership, motivation, and being the driving force behind the engineering delivery.
4. Break down work into appropriate work packages and obtain agreements with engineering team leaders for appropriate resources.
5. Communicate with SSTL customers and internal stakeholders, including Engineering Functional Managers, Heads of Engineering, Project Accounting, Commercial teams, and SSTL’s Leadership Team.
6. Complete management of the major project reviews, identifying clear objectives, inputs, outputs, success criteria, and ensuring successful outcomes to secure corresponding customer payment milestones.
7. Manage the project key risks to ensure that risks are identified and captured with measurable and appropriate mitigation actions in place and driven through the project work package structure.
8. Monitor and control the project finances (ensuring contingency remains commensurate with weighted risk exposure, cost to complete, profit take) to ensure the project is delivered within the agreed budget.
9. Prepare cost packs in support of business development activities.
10. Support SSTL bids by providing programmatic solutions into the Bid Manager, covering deliverables, schedule, costs, risks, and customer interactions.
Previous Experience
1. Proven experience in project management specifically in setting up, running, and successfully delivering projects, ideally in a satellite or engineering/aerospace industry.
2. Experience of interfacing with customers.
3. Good experience of implementing contracts.
4. Familiarity with work package systems and matrix management structure preferable.
Qualifications, Knowledge & Skills
1. A degree or equivalent in an engineering or technical discipline would be preferable.
2. Good people management skills, able to motivate in a team-oriented, collaborative environment and lead the team.
3. Good team working skills, together with the ability to interface with others at all levels.
4. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to influence, persuade, and negotiate with people at all levels (externally & internally) as well as to assist in reaching compromises when there are conflicting requirements.
5. High degree of organisation, self-motivation, and initiative.
6. Flexible and adaptable to changing priorities.
7. Results-oriented with a strong drive to deliver.
8. Proactive and able to take initiative.
9. Decision-making and creative problem-solving skills.
10. Clear communication skills.
11. Proven ability to deliver solutions under pressure and to tight timescales.
12. Ability to work closely with technical teams to understand and grasp concepts and issues and translate those to schedule and cost impacts with a balanced approach to risk.
13. Ability to produce and maintain a risk register and to communicate the philosophy on risk.
14. Ability to understand commercial terms and translate those into impacts on the project.
15. Ability to create a project plan and to translate that into a project schedule within MS Project.
16. Able to work autonomously and using own initiative.
17. Understanding of contracts and product assurance plans.
18. Good knowledge of MS Office Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, and particularly Microsoft Project.
19. Able to demonstrate company mindsets and behaviours; be accountable, drive & delivery, communicate effectively, self-manage effectively, work as one team.
Location
SSTL prides itself on being a super flexible company. The role is based in our Head Office in Guildford, but we fully support hybrid working and a range of flexible working options.
Benefits
Our comprehensive benefits package includes 32 days holiday plus bank holidays, pension scheme with life assurance, private medical & international travel insurance, annual bonus scheme, share incentive plan, enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental pay for new parents, high street discount scheme, and many more!
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