Senior Project Manager (Maritime)

Senior Project Manager

Programme Name: Maritime

Location: Farnborough with flexibility to work from home and travel to customer sites dependent on business demands

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Role Overview:

Leidos UK is seeking an accomplished Senior Project Manager to lead major workstreams within a highprofile UK military boatbuilding programme.

You will be accountable for the delivery of engineering procurement outfit commissioning commercial management and stakeholder engagement operating within complex delivery environments and influencing programmelevel decisions.

You will lead by example fostering an inclusive and collaborative environment across all delivery partners and stakeholders including our strategic boat outfit supplier.

This role carries significant responsibility for shaping delivery strategy driving performance across multidisciplinary teams and ensuring the successful integration of advanced maritime systems for the UK Armed Forces.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Initially you will oversee the success detailed design outfit and sea trials of Sea Dagger (Block 0) with our strategic shipyard partner. Longer term you will work with the Leidos National Security & Defence (NS&D) leadership team to secure additional opportunities across the Maritime portfolio;
• Own delivery of the major project phases across design build integration sea trials and acceptance. Provide leadership to a multi-entity (Leidos boat outfitter supply chain customer) management team across all functional disciplines;
• Influence stakeholder expectations ensuring clarity of scope requirements and delivery outcomes. Support contract negotiations supplier agreements and commercial risk management;
• Drive project decisionmaking during the whole lifecycle ensuring risks dependencies and constraints are proactively managed;
• Act as the principal project management interface with internal and external stakeholders. Lead programme reviews technical boards and commercial discussions;
• Lead assurance activities including design reviews quality gates trials readiness and acceptance milestones;
• Oversee project budgets forecasts and financial performance at a senior level. Ensure robust cost control value for money delivery and alignment with contractual obligations;
• Ensure adherence to defence maritime and safety regulations across all project activities;
• Champion continuous improvement and lessonslearned across the programme;
• Collaborate closely with production procurement quality and project management teams;
• Support resource planning capability development and workforce readiness;
• Oversee the change process including configuration control throughout the lifecycle;
• Ensure adherence to the Leidos safety environmental and quality standards during delivery of your programmes;
• Mentor and guide project managers coordinators and junior delivery staff;
• Foster a highperformance culture focused on accountability support and empowerment. Champion Leidos values of integrity innovation inclusion agility collaboration and commitment.

Skills Required:

• Able to communicate complex issues clearly to nontechnical stakeholders;
• Mentor junior project managers and support capability development across the organisation;
• Excellent leadership communication and negotiation skills;
• Personal attributes:
  • Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence at all levels;
  • Excellent problemsolving skills and sound engineering judgement;
  • Clear communicator with the ability to simplify complex technical issues;
  • Transparent approachable and ambassador for collaborative teamwork across the whole enterprise including suppliers stakeholders and customer(s);
  • Resilient organised and comfortable operating in a highstakes defence environment.
• Familiarity with common project toolsets including:
  • JIRA
  • Collaboration application such as SharePoint MS Team and OneDrive
  • AI application such as Co-Pilot
  • Windchill

Essential Qualifications & Experience

• Professional project management certification ();
• Degree in a project management engineering or related discipline;
• Strong commercial acumen including contract and supplier management;
• Extensive experience:
  • Within a prime contractor or major defence integrator environment.
  • Leading major subcontractors on complex defence programmes;
  • In maritime naval systems shipbuilding or highintegrity engineering environments.
  • Managing multimillionpound projects with diverse technical teams.

Desirable Qualifications & Experience

• Knowledge of vessel trials acceptance processes or transition to inservice support;
• Chartered status (CEng or equivalent) or working towards it;
• Experience with military small craft patrol vessels or specialist naval platforms;
• Knowledge of combat systems integration;
• Experience working with UK shipyards or defence primes.

Location:

• UK (home location flexible TBC: occasional travel to the US or Europe - no more than 1 or 2 visits per year);
• Approximately 50% hybrid working with regular travel to Leidos sites (for example Farnborough London or Whiteley) and supplier facilities (including SW Wales).

Clearance:

• Must be eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC or higher; DV desirable)

What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers a collaborative culture and support for your career goals all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:
Contributory Pension Scheme
Private Medical Insurance
33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance health schemes gym memberships annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)

Flexi-Time Working

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging welcoming all perspectives and contributions and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & EUROPE we work to make the worldsaferhealthier andmore efficient through technology engineering andscience.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence healthcare government safety and security and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning AI cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home the office or on customer sites we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos we invest in technical academies career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

If youre looking for comfort keep scrolling. At Leidos we outthink outbuild and outpace the status quo because the mission demands it. Were not hiring followers. Were recruiting the ones who disrupt provoke and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. Were already at step 30 and moving faster than anyone else dares.

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Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.