Role: DV Cleared Project Manager

Location: Cheltenham – 3 days/week on-site

Salary: £70,000 - £86,000 + benefits

DV Cleared Project Manager needed to join our client, an established defence engineering firm based in Cheltenham.

The Project Manager will join the UK Cyber & Intelligence business. The team combines modern software-engineering practices with deep Defence and national-security expertise. You’ll play a key role in delivering complex, sensitive, and high-impact technology projects that support customers through ambitious digital transformation.

You must currently hold the highest level of UK Government security clearance.

What the role of the Project Manager entails:

Some of the main duties of the Project Manager will include:

• Leading projects to deliver agreed outcomes within time, cost, and quality constraints.
• Providing day-to-day leadership to the project team, ensuring effective decision-making and strong management controls.
• Designing the project structure, setting appropriate delivery methodologies, and managing transitions between phases.
• Developing and maintaining business cases, budgets, and project plans, ensuring performance and progress are clearly reported.
• Building and developing high-performing teams, identifying resource requirements, and supporting recruitment where required.
• Managing stakeholder relationships, ensuring clear communication and senior-level engagement.
• Identifying, monitoring, and reporting risks and issues, driving mitigation and escalation where appropriate.
• Supporting governance and assurance processes, including gateway reviews and change-control mechanisms.