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Systems Engineering & Assessment Ltd

Senior Project Manager

Barnstaple
£50k – £58k/yr
Posted about 13 hours ago
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Engineered to Protect, that’s our promise, we protect what matters - our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world.

A Senior Project Manager typically leads and manages SEA's projects of highest risk and complexity throughout the entire project lifecycle including bids and post project support.

Senior Project Manager will be based at our Barnstaple site. This role allows for flexible working.

The salary for this role is up to £58k, depending on experience.

What you’ll be doing

  • Manage bids, programmes, projects, tasks and work packages taking responsibility for the outcomes, budget, quality and timescales
  • Act as the customer, subcontractor and internal point of contact
  • Provide effective and wide-ranging leadership in the project and beyond, engender team spirit, develop teams and focus effort on delivery on common goals
  • Leverage a deep understanding of SEA's business and technology to add value in how projects are delivered through effective planning, risk and opportunity management, and issue handling
  • Operate in line with SEA's business management system and actively champion the improvement of working processes in line with industry best practice and cutting-edge developments
  • Drive continual improvement within projects and work packages, gathering lessons and reducing waste, as well as supporting process improvement across the business area.

About our company

At SEA, we develop and deliver advanced solutions to make our world safer, cleaner and more efficient.

We provide state-of-the-art applications for naval ship and fleet protection, and undersea surveillance systems. In-service across the globe, our systems deliver a rapid response to threats and system effectiveness and interoperation. Our systems support an ever-growing number of navies across the world, and we continue to bolster our already specialist, on-the-ground knowledge of key overseas markets.

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At our core, we encourage innovation, flexibility and out-of-the-box thinking to solve problems, so we’re always looking for talented, flexible, and creative people to bring their best to SEA. In return we offer generous rewards, a fantastic work/life balance, and excellent career and training opportunities for everyone who joins.

Work life balance

  • Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
  • 25 days’ annual leave, plus buy and sell
  • Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual
  • Half day Fridays
  • Reservists in the Armed Forces receive special paid leave

Family & wellbeing

  • Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program
  • Health Cash Plan
  • All Staff Bonus
  • Group Pension Plan of up to 8% employer contribution
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Wellbeing Centre
  • Sports & Social activities
  • Employee Discounts portal - online and in-store discounts, travel savings
  • Life assurance policy
  • Publication and recruitment bonus rewards
  • Development opportunities, including LinkedIn learning

Facilities & resources

  • Electric vehicle charging points at all sites
  • Private seated lunch areas
  • Onsite bistro (Barnstaple office) and free hot and cold beverages
  • Onsite showers and toiletries provision
  • Free onsite parking

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The skills you need

  • Formal qualifications with the APM (to PMQ), professional registration or actively working towards similar level qualifications
  • Experience of managing firm price, complex system contracts of multi-million pound value
  • Expert in planning, risk and opportunity management
  • Proven in-depth knowledge and experience of all phases of a project from inception, planning and organisation, monitoring and control, closure in the military environment
  • Deep knowledge of the full range of project management competencies including financial and earned value management, risk and opportunity management and supplier and subcontractor project management
  • Extensive Knowledge and experience of different commercial arrangements including fixed price design and manufacture, availability-based service provision, build-to-print, time and materials contracts, etc
  • Hands-on experience of working with project management tools, such as Microsoft Project, risk registers, etc. including the ability to use advanced features when necessary
  • An excellent communicator and able to demonstrate both effective change and conflict management with highly developed influencing skills

Join us and be part of something smaller - with 500 people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger: protecting what matters.

If you’d like to know more, please give Kelly Thomas from our Talent Acquisition Team a call on 03330 414300. Or reach out to us on talentacquisition@sea.co.uk.

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Skills

Project Management
Risk Management
Opportunity Management
Budget Management
Leadership
Communication
Conflict Management
Planning
Monitoring
Control
Supplier Management
Subcontractor Management
Financial Management
Earned Value Management
Process Improvement
Team Development

Location

Barnstaple, England, United Kingdom

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