Our clients Submarine Support Engineering (SSE) Group is contracted to provide engineering and design services support to the Ministry of Defence, and in particular, In-service Submarines (ISM) Project Team who form part of the Defence Engineering and Support Organisation. We are recruiting a Project Manager to be embedded into the Submarine Support Engineering (SSE) Programme Management (PM) team currently based in BTC, Stoke Gifford, Bristol.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Planning of the Project Schedule with DS SMEs and internal and Customer Stakeholders.

• Management and delivery of the TLBP Work Packages to time, quality and budget.

• Work with delivery teams and stakeholders to ensure timely design, delivery, test and release of the application.

• Progress reporting to the Project Board.

• Ongoing maintenance of the Project Schedule.

• Maintain the Project Logs.

• Work with key internal and external stakeholders to manage dependencies.

• Identify and mitigate potential risks and manage issues that threaten the project.

• Resource management in collaboration with internal suppliers.

• Monitor and report on resource usage and cost to complete.

• Operate as a full member of the team; supporting the TLBP Team Manager and other team members as directed.

Knowledge & Experience:

• Experience of working with the Ministry of Defence is desirable.

• Experience of Software Development Project Management would be an advantage.

Skills and Competencies:

• Competent in the use of Microsoft Project Server and Microsoft Project Web App.

• Competent in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Project and Microsoft PowerPoint.

• Familiar with Microsoft SharePoint.

• An excellent communicator at all levels, both written and verbal. The individual will build and sustain effective and lasting relationships with the Customer, Stakeholders and our teams located in Bristol, Devonport and Clyde.

• An effective problem solver – being able to balance theoretical assessments with pragmatic solutions.

• Be a self-starter who is able to get up to speed quickly with little direction and manage their own work.

• Maintains a culture of open disclosure of issues and opportunities and therefore enable learning from experience identification and sharing.

• Be a proactive, enthusiastic and forward-thinking individual.

• Hold (or be able to obtain) a current SC clearance and be a sole UK National.

• APMP or PRINCE2 Practitioner Qualification is desirable.