Senior Project Manager

Job Description

About The Role

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Engineered to Protect, thats 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.
Whatyoullbedoing

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• 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.
What we offer

At our core, we encourage innovation, flexibility and out-of-the-box thinking to solve problems, so were 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. Havea look atthe benefits we offer:
Work life balance

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• Hybrid/flexible working arrangements

25 days annual leave, plus buy and sell

Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual

Half day Fridays

Reservists in theArmedForces receive special paid leave

Family & wellbeing

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• 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

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• 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

Theskills you need

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• Formal qualifications with the APM (to PMQ), professional registration or actively working towards similar xwzovoh 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 - with500people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger: protecting what matters.