Project Manager
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About the Role
Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Project Manager at our BUTEC site based at Kyle of Lochalsh, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.
The Role
We provide a diverse range of services for the Royal Navy supporting the following: the signature acceptance trials of new ships and submarines; the operational trials of ships and submarines preparing for missions and overseas deployments assessing systems, optimising equipment and providing mission critical advice for command before deployment; leading developments of new signature systems and methodology; managing and delivering live underwater targets for ships and submarines to test systems and develop operational capability. The IDT directs work in the UK, the US and the Middle East as part of the daily drumbeat.
The role will involve managing projects for the IDT reporting to programme managers and senior project managers, taking responsibility for customer stakeholder relationship, developing follow on business and leading on overall delivery on-site.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Supporting, running and delivering projects on site
- You will be the main point of contact for the team member who are not located on site
- Influence and support the autonomising of the underwater ranges
- Identify, plan and implement actions to positively engage parties with an interest in, or influence over, the project outputs
- effectively communicate as part of a two-way interaction, using a range of techniques, to ensure the received meaning matches the transmitted meaning
Essential experience of the Project Manager:
- Project management experience, working on multiple complex projects and any one time.
- Experience of delivering complex projects while working as part of a team based out of separate locations
- Communicating effectively with internal and external stakeholders as well as the wider teams based at other sites
- Demonstrable capability to International Project Management Association Level C/D
- Previous experience in working within defence or engineering preferable but not essential
Essential qualifications for the Project Manager:
- Hold a project management qualification such as APM/PMQ
We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
This role is 37 hours per week based at Kyle of Lochalsh.