L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers' mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.
L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defence technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers' mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defence and commercial technologies across air, land, sea, space and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 48,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.
Job Title - Project Manager
Job Location - Burgess Hill, UK
We can offer hybrid working pattern, with time in our offices and your home, to enable a good work-life balance. We do require you to be on-site 60% of the time across the month (3 days per week on average).
Job ID - 14721
About this opportunity and L3Harris UK
From 12 UK sites, our team of over 1,400 people deliver unique capabilities across air, land, sea, space and cyber for military, security and commercial customers, worldwide.
L3Harris MAPPS (Bristol, Burgess Hill and Barrow-in-Furness) provides an Integrated Platform Management System (IPMS) for the Royal Navy sub-surface and surface fleets, notably current Astute submarine and Queen Elizabeth Class (QEC) aircraft carriers, in-build Type 26 and Type 31 frigates. This software provides integrated monitoring and control of ship propulsion, electrical functions, auxiliaries and damage control machinery and systems.
A few of our employee benefits
- 1pm 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
The responsibilities of your role will include the following:
- Take full responsibility for project (contract) delivery and/or bid activity
- Manage customers and suppliers across multiple countries and time-zones
- Establish and maintain team organisation and communications plans
- Create and maintain project schedules and expediting of tasks
- Use appropriate planning techniques to help identify project resource requirements and manage availability with functional managers
- Work with Supply Chain and Commercial teams to ensure contract baselines, plans and schedules are maintained in line with agreed contract changes
- Develop and maintain monitoring and control of project deliverables
- Efficiently deliver clearly focused customer and company project financial and schedule performance reporting
- Maintain project risk and opportunity registers(s), arranging regular reviews and communicating in monthly reporting cycle
- Support development of project management capability to support business & company growth (including managing own personal development)
What you'll bring
The role of Project Manager requires the following experience and skills:
- 3+ years' experience in a similar role
- Ideally hold a Project Management qualification
- Experience of managing technical projects (ideally within the defence, aerospace, oil and gas, rail etc.)
- Experience with Microsoft Office, with a strong knowledge of Microsoft Project
- Knowledge, skills and experience in the following:
- Planning contract delivery
- Finance tracking, control and reporting
- Change control and baseline management
- Stakeholder management (subcontractors, engineers and suppliers
- Knowledge of 'waterfall' lifecycle and EVM preferred
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.