Assistant Project Manager (APM)

Crawley, England, United Kingdom

12/18/2024

Location: Crawley, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Assistant Project Manager

Based Crawley or Bristol – hybrid working 3 days in the office weekly

This role will require Security Clearance – see below

Are you looking to develop a career in Project Management? Do you want to work with a highly regarded team who will support your learning and development? Would you like to work for a world-renowned department that research, develop and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better and keep us safer?

Then look no further…

What the role has to offer:

• Great opportunity to gain experience and develop a career in Project Management
• Opportunity to work in a fast paced, exciting and dynamic environment
• Working with cutting edge technology
  
  
  

What can we offer you?

On offer is a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes;

• Performance Related Bonus
• Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00pm
• Pension Scheme
• 28 days annual leave (Plus Bank Holidays)
• Life Cover
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
• Gym membership discount
  
  
  

Our Opportunity

We have a fantastic opportunity for an Assistant Project Manager to join Thales Above Water Systems (AWS) who provide integrated combat management systems and services for naval surface ships in the UK and internationally

You will be responsible for supporting the project management team to ensure successful delivery of the projects, ensuring customer satisfaction, on-time delivery and project efficiency. This is a great opportunity to gain experience and develop a career in Project Management, this includes management of project deliverables (CDRLs, hardware, documentation, etc.), change and risk management, reporting and liaison with the Customer and across Thales in the UK and internationally.

Some of the key responsibilities:

• Ensuring the timely delivery of project deliverables as required by the contract.
• Provide delivery performance metrics as part of the monthly reporting cycle including the status of CDRLs, GFA/PFA and other items as required.
• Support the execution of configuration and data management activities.
• Drive the Change Management process – working closely with the Customer and across the Multi-entity.
• Drive the Risk Management process – working closely with the Customer and across the Multi-entity.
• Act as the project management interface to the Customer to communicate day to day operation of the project. This includes attendance at key Customer meetings and working groups, identification of emergent issues and tracking actions.
• Support the Customer facing project management activities.
  
  
  

This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held; if not currently held it is expected that the post holder will undergo SC Clearance, please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.

About You

• You will have experience of supporting the delivery of successful projects in support of Project Management Teams and have a good understanding of the full business lifecycle management, including capture, qualification and winning strategies together with an understanding of generic processes and techniques used to schedule project activities (for example; WBS, OBS, milestones, dependencies, EVM).
• You will have experience of the Project Management process (including Change Control, Risk Management and Information Management) as well as knowledge of the project life cycle for complex projects through delivery of Development, Implementation, Closure and Support activity.
• You will demonstrate strong negotiation, presentation and report writing skills with proven experience of building strong relationships with customers, partners, suppliers and internal stakeholders together with having excellent organisational, managerial and team working skills.
• You will have a positive attitude combined with excellent interpersonal and motivational skills.
  
  
  

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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