Senior Project Manager
Senior Project Manager
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Job Description
Job Title Senior Project Manager
Job Location Brighton
Job ID 20983
About this opportunity and L3Harris UK
From 11 UK sites our team of nearly 1000 people delivers unique capabilities across space air land sea and cyber for military security and commercial customers across the UK and worldwide.
L3Harris in Brighton are part of Release Systems and the Mission Avionics sector operating in the Aerospace domain. Our mission-critical release systems equipment is on most major airborne fighter platforms worldwide including the F-35 along with other aircraft like the Gripen and Typhoon. Brighton designs manufactures and tests a large portion of its release systems portfolio. This facility offers 48500 square feet of manufacturing space for the development of high-performance multi-station solutions used to launch air-to-air and air-to-ground munitions from bay wing or fuselage stations.
A few of our employee benefits
- Hybrid working available where possible
- 12pm 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
What the role will involve
- Managing a broad range of activities to successfully execute programmes to achieve contracted delivery cost and quality targets through the full programme lifecycle from bid through to programme completion
- Managing multi-functional teams through the design development test qualification and production/ manufacture of mission critical Defence and Aerospace products
- Total ownership of the project budgets resources requirements risks and on time delivery
- Leading the creation and implementation of the integrated programme schedule
- Manage bids and proposals through submission to the customer
- Other duties include issuing progress reports assisting senior management with relevant aspects of programme and business performance
What youll bring
The role of Senior Project Manager requires the following experience and skills:
- At least 5 years experience working within a project/programme management environment
- Experience of managing multi-skilled teams through challenging customer requirements whilst motivating and managing the project team members
- Knowledge of product design and development governance and qualification
- Evidence of excellent client and stakeholder relationships and ability to develop new ones
- Developing project plans and schedules from first principles using Microsoft Project
- A working knowledge of Earned Value Management (EVM)
- Knowledge and experience of a successful PMO bid and proposal management
- Experience managing programme management reviews
- Previous experience in the Defence/Aerospace sector would be desirable but not essential
Important to know
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.
As an equal opportunities employer L3Harris is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age disability sex sexual orientation pregnancy and maternity race or ethnicity religion or belief gender identity or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join L3Harris.
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Employment Type
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