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Date Posted:
2025-06-03
Country:
United Kingdom
Location:
GBR29: Gloucester, 18b Ley Court, Barnwood Industrial Estate, Barnwood, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL4 3RT
Position Role Type:
Unspecified
Job Title: Project/Delivery Manager
Grade: P3
Function: PMO
Duration: Permanent
Hours: Full Time - 37 hours
Location(s): Gloucester or Manchester (Hybrid with 2-3 days in the office)
Security Clearance Requirements: DV (will accept SC (either already in the DV pipeline or willing to be put in).
Why join Raytheon
Raytheon is a leader in advanced electronics, intelligence and IT systems that provide 21st century solutions to tracking, monitoring and identifying potential threats and protecting communities. Our UK Intelligence & Security business is, among other key accolades, leading developments in Cyber Security. For more than 30 years, Raytheon has protected critical information and infrastructure from the most complex threats.
Raytheon UK is looking for a dynamic and high performing Project/Delivery Manager to work within Raytheon’s Cyber Centre. The work location could be either Manchester or Gloucester with occasional travel to the other Raytheon site and/or customer sites.
As a Project/Delivery Manager you will be responsible for a variety of concurrent project deliveries and also have responsibilities for administering an effective PMO function. The role embodies the driving force of every project, assuring successful execution, identifying and managing to resolution risks and issues through the use of programmatic controls and techniques.
The successful candidate will be charged with the successful initiation, execution and completion of projects in line with time, quality and cost/profit targets. You will also represent Raytheon to the customer, its suppliers and management. Professionalism and credibility will therefore be key.
Main Duties:
The successful candidate will be required to:
- Forge strong relationships with external stakeholders whilst establishing trust and internal relationships to ensure that goals and objectives are clearly communicated, understood and executed.
- Ensure that effective project management practices in accordance with Raytheon UK process is applied and maintained.
- Establish and maintain a governance structure to ensure coordination of work requests including estimations, work proposals, forecasting and internal reporting.
- Reporting progress routinely and by exception into the Raytheon account, including both scheduled and ad-hoc management briefings.
- Effective communication of project status and delivery to respective stakeholders utilising metrics and scheduling tools where necessary and appropriate.
- Produce Schedule performance metrics including Schedule variance, Critical Path Analysis and Schedule performance analysis to support the PMO function.
- End to end software delivery management/oversight with Agile principles and Scrum focused teams
- Challenge existing practices and lead continuous improvement in delivery standards and processes
- Where needed, provide Agile coaching to the team including Scrum best practices
- Interpret customer technical requirements and convert them into deliverable solutions whilst managing scope creep and customer expectations
- Identification of project risk, issues and dependencies, seeking resolution before escalation.
- Supporting the Management of the programme’s PMO function helping seek continuous improvements in measuring and reporting delivery progress.
- Interface with the Finance Team to establish and monitor budget authorisations, by ensuring the availability of supporting data enabling collation and analysis of relevant data such as schedule derived ETCs and factored risk cost exposure.
- Build trust and confidence within the team to a level where they will share problems without fear of blame, retribution or being judged whilst also protecting them from outside interruptions and distractions.
Essential:
- Have an existing Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance or is capable of achieving such a clearance.
- Strong organisational, leadership, communication and interpersonal skills being a team motivator capable of building strong relationships with peers, customers and suppliers at all levels.
- Demonstrable knowledge working within software development teams that diligently apply Scrum and Agile principles, practices, techniques and methodologies.
- Experienced in the principles of Project/Task based Management, Risk Management, MS Project, Programme Performance Reviews and Cost Account Management.
- Experience of managing multiple projects and programmes in a controlled environment, making best use of recognised methods, e.g. PRINCE2
- Sound knowledge of PMO disciplines and techniques.
- Able to lead and support problem solving of complex issues across functional boundaries, to summarise and identify key concerns and follow through with the development and execution of corrective action plans to resolve issues.
- Sound judgement skills, understanding when to own and brief and when to escalate.
- Able to rapidly assimilate information, culture and process
Desirable:
- Computer Science, Engineering or Business Degree or equivalent qualification.
- Experience working within the Cyber and Intelligence Community.
- Experience working within a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment.
- Bid and Proposal Management.
- Knowledge of cost Estimating.
- Member of a relevant Engineering or Project Management Professional institution.
- Able to guide, and provide professional planning assistance to all levels of the Team.
- Understanding of applicable government information assurance policies and controls and how to comply with these.
RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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