AWE is recruiting an Operations Project Manager to lead facility improvement projects. These projects span all aspects of facilities lifecycle management to maintain operational output.
Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.
Package: £48,000 to £60,000 (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience).
Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.
Let us introduce the role
As the Project Manager, you will be responsible for technical facilities and operations delivery management, managing multiple complex projects, high value budgets and stakeholders at all levels. Your role will entail:
- Delivering assigned projects in accordance with requirements, operational constraints, time, cost, and quality.
- Leading, coaching and developing a delivery team including personal objectives, to create and delivery operational plans.
- Maintaining and promoting high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security, and quality, and being a great team player within a diverse and exciting workforce.
Who are we looking for?
This role is instrumental to delivering on AWE's core mission, your focus will be on ensuring the critical path of activity is delivered to time, cost, and quality. Your responsibilities will include:
- Lead the creation and delivery of project plans, capturing task allocation and resource allocation.
- Management of project resources (personnel, identify and maintain project budgets).
- Manage projects with focus on Governance (compliance, reporting and post project review).
- Capture and maintain critical path delivery, with focus upon dependency, risk and issue management.
- Manage work as defined in the Work Authorisation Document (WAD).
- Lead, support and initiate change against the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB).
- Lead, initiate and perform risk and opportunity identification and subsequent actions.
Everyone who works at AWE brings unique skills and perspectives to the table. We recognise that great people don't always 'tick every box'. That's why we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience. Even if you don't meet every point below, but you feel that this role and AWE are a great fit for you, please go ahead and apply, we'd love to receive your application.
Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we'd like you to have experience in some of the following:
- Delivery of projects using a project methodology.
- Experience working within a similarly highly regulated industry would be beneficial.
- Prior experience working on construction or facility management projects would be advantageous.
- Demonstrable leadership of multiple, complex projects and the ability to build strong focused teams.
- Experience to manage projects through a lifecycle, including governance and stage gate approvals.
- Skills to create and update project documentation, including project management plans and supporting risks, assumptions, actions, issues & dependencies.
- Experience of project management tools and techniques for budgeting, change management and project goal setting. (we use APM and MS Project).
- Strong interpersonal skills with staff at all levels.
- Excellent customer and key stakeholder relationship skills.
You'll need to have the ability to work calmly and constructively in a priority changing environment and be able to manage your own workload. You will also have initiative, enthusiasm, a flexible approach, and ability to work to tight deadlines.
Some reasons we think you'll love it here:
AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include:
- 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
- Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
- Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
- Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
- Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
- Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
- Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
- Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.
The 'Working at AWE' page on our website is where you can find full details in the 'AWE Benefits Guide'.
Important things you need to know:
- You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 10 years in order to apply for DV clearance.
- We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.
Hybrid working is available for this role on an informal, non-contractual basis. Typically 2 to 3 days onsite per week.
Our ambition is to create workplaces where we recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and our employees feel able to be themselves at work. We strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants. Any inclusion information you provide will be stored in accordance with GDPR and kept separate from your application form and CV, and the information will not be shared with anyone involved in interviewing or making hiring decisions.
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