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IT Project Manager
12 Month FTC – IT Project Manager (Programme)
About KBR and the Project
KBR is a global technical solutions provider with 28,000+ employees worldwide, delivering services across 34 countries to clients in 80+ nations. Their mission is to drive impactful solutions that create a better, safer, and more sustainable world.
KBR’s Estates Intelligence division specialises in enabling clients to make informed decisions regarding operational and strategic estate and asset management. The team leverages the ‘6 As’ Methodology—Aggregation, Automation, Assurance, Audit, Analytics—via their Viaverse platform. This helps clients achieve enhanced asset management by consolidating data, automating workflows, ensuring data integrity, and providing actionable insights for better decision-making.
KBR is launching the Viaverse mobilisation programme to onboard a new client. The platform serves as the ‘single source of truth’ for managing the lifecycle of assets—including public-facing and back-office sites—through real-time transaction flows with supply chain partners.
This multi-workstream programme will deliver a scaled transition from current services, involving:
- Design, build, test, transition, and hypercare
- Significant data transition and operational change
- Alignment with both KBR and supplier mobilisation plans
Led by senior stakeholders, KBR is assembling a multi-disciplinary technology team to execute this programme. This role falls under a large-scale KBR Estates Intelligence programme, providing substantial benefits to a public sector department.
About the Role
This is a core IT Project Manager (Programme) position, reporting to the Senior IT Project Manager / Programme Director and collaborating with:
- Senior Transition Lead
- Solution Lead
- Project Coordinator
The ideal candidate is a disciplined, tech-savvy, proactively structured professional, excelling in:
- Detailed planning and execution
- Governance and stakeholder management
- Managing multiple workstreams and critical paths
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Key Responsibilities
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Ownership of the detailed project plan, ensuring:
- Integrity of critical paths
- Adequate resourcing with realistic effort estimates
- Clear management of internal and external dependencies
- Strict adherence to critical milestones
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Management of the detailed plan, including:
- Detailed planning and replanning
- Smoothing, float and deconfliction management
- Critical path tracking and burn-down reporting
- Task progress updates and reporting
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Ensuring compliance with configuration and change management processes, including:
- Stakeholder reviews for products defined in the plan
- Aligning deliverables with deadlines
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Facial responsibility for internal ceremonies, including:
- Daily standups
- Sprint ceremonies
- Checkpoint reviews
- Escalation to the Senior Transition Lead if critical milestones risk slipping
- Approval of recovery actions
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Overseeing KANBAN boards usage to increase:
- Standup efficiency and effectiveness
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** responsibility for all internal and select external reporting**, as assigned by the Senior Transition Manager
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Leadership of RAID Log, including:
- Capture, updates, and governance of risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies
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Assistance to the Senior Transition Lead with Quality Gateways, including:
- Integrating assessments, meetings, issue tracking, and mitigation planning
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Support to the Programme Director for programme-level:
- Planning, reporting, and governance
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Managing the Project Coordinator, ensuring alignment with :
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Technical Project Manager’s priorities
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Establishing and building strong delivery relationships with:
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Project Manager in supplier mobilisation teams
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Ensuring mutual milestone alignment
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Change impact assessment through modelling to predict:
- Impacts on plans due to unexpected variables
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Alignment between:
- Supplier mobilisation plans
- KBR’s key delivery milestones
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Document management, ensuring all documentation is stored and updated in the master document register
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Frequent and effective communication with:
- Internal team
- External suppliers
- Client stakeholders
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Project change process ownership, ensuring timely and structured amendments
Required Qualifications, Experience & Skills
Essential Experience & Competencies
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5+ years’ experience managing large, complex multi-path initiatives over 12+ months
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Proven track record in Agile and Waterfall environments
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Experience leading:
- Daily standups with technical teams and developers
- Multiple projects within a Programme environment
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Hands-on supply-side project management
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Private/public sector stakeholders management (non-technical focus)
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Expertise in engaging with external project managers, fostering collaborative delivery relationships
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Experience in:
- Cost and schedule-sensitive changes
- Assessing change impacts on resources, timeline, and budget
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Mastery of:
- Advanced/Intermediate Smartsheet or MS Project
- Intermediate MS Excel (macros, pivot tables)
- Intermediate MS PowerPoint
- Jira KANBAN or similar digital KANBAN tools
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Familiarity with Azure and Azure-hosted technologies (IaaS virtualisation)
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Professional certifications required:
- PRINCE2 Practitioner, APM, or PMI accreditation
Desirable Qualities
- Strong analytical approach to complex procurement and technical challenges
- Experience in private sector: development programme management
Working Arrangement
- Location: Leatherhead
- Flexibility: Hybrid working (minimum 3 days on-site per week) expected
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