project manager Bristol, England
Job description
Job Title: Project Manager
Job Code: IMS20232606-102918
Job Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
We can offer you flexible working practices and a hybrid working pattern, with time in our offices and your home, to enable a good work-life balance
Important to know:
Due to the nature of this role, you will need to be a UK nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.
About this opportunity and L3Harris UK
From 12 UK sites, our team of over 1,400 people deliver unique capabilities across air, land, sea, space and cyber for military, security and commercial customers, worldwide.
L3Harris MAPPS Limited is a leading global supplier of control and simulation solutions for the marine, power generation and space sectors. A well-established pedigree and growing company based and registered in the UK specialising in the provision of Navigation, Communication, Automation and Training Solutions to the Royal Navy and UK Commercial Market. Our organisation has over 200 staff in 3 main locations and several smaller sites.
About the role:
We are looking for an experienced Project Manager to deliver a project through the project lifecycle to Time, Cost and Quality KPIs for the Naval Systems (NS) Business Stream. As the Project Manager you will be managing a team of internal Project Managers, you must have experience in motivating individuals to maximise performance. Our Project Manager will support the Bid Team initially with Estimating Management labour costs developing project delivery structure and plans; then mobilising the new project ahead of contract award and transitioning to management of the project post contract award. As the Project Manager you will work with your team to ensure that the appropriate planning techniques to help identify project resource requirements are being managed and are available to functional managers. You will be working with Supply Chain and Commercial teams to ensure contract baselines, plane and schedules are maintained in line with agreed contract changes. You will also need to monitor project risk & opportunity, supporting team with regular reviews and communicating in monthly reporting cycle.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Work within a business / programme environment, take full responsibility for project (contract) delivery, with a strong emphasis on subcontract management throughout the requirements, design and manufacture phase
- Creation and maintenance of project schedules and tracking metrics expedite tasks to achieve on time deliveries to budget
- Use appropriate planning techniques to help identify project resource requirements and manage availability with functional managers
- Efficiently deliver clearly focussed customer & company project financial and schedule performance reporting
Essential Skills:
- Minimum of 5-10 years project management experience, responsible for contract values in the region of £50m
- Creating & maintaining resourced Project schedules (using Microsoft Project) and associated WBS/OBS/RAM
- Experience in finance tracking, control & reporting
- Experience working with supply chain managers to manage suppliers and subcontractor
What else could be helpful to be successful in this role
- Experience in the Defence sector
A few of our employee benefits are:
- Flexible, condensed or reduced working hours considered and hybrid working where possible
- 1pm finish every Friday
- 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
- Private medical insurance with optional family cover
- Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution
- Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
- Group income protection
- Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme
- Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support
L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination and offers equal opportunities for all. Applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.
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