IT Project Manager

IT Project Manager – Outside IR35

Contract Term: 12 months

Contracting Authority: AWE

Location: Hybrid Working (up to two days per week onsite – Aldermaston)

What if you could work on something that you can’t test… but cannot afford to fail? Something that could have spent years on a submarine, is launched into outer space (where the temperature is below -250c), comes hurtling through the atmosphere, being heated up and shaken and then must work? Some challenge.

That’s exactly what the team of over 6,500 people at AWE do every day: delivering important work, in support of the most important mission – keeping the nation safe.

AWE plays a crucial role in national nuclear security. Their role in nuclear deterrence and their specialist technical assistance to nuclear threat reduction is vital in the defence against the most serious threats faced by the UK. Working to support the defence of our country, AWE has a clear mission: to keep everyone, the environment, their products and information, sites, and everything around them, safe and secure.

As an IT Project Manager, your main responsibilities would be to:

• Deliver assigned projects in accordance with requirements, operational constraints, time, cost and quality.
• Lead, coach and develop a team of leaders and influence others at specialism or functional level to create and deliver operational plans.
• Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.
• Manage projects with focus on Governance (compliance and reporting).
• Management of project resources (people, money).
• Lead the planning of the task/project or function.
• 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.
• The Company may require you to fulfil any other reasonable duties aligned to your position from time to time in line with business needs.

Essential:

• Active SC Clearance
• Experience installing a new IT network
• Familiar with New Building installation
• Evidence of successfully leading other Project Management personnel and cross-functional teams in a complex project environment
• Earned Value Management
• Graduate level of qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Evidence of project management competence e.g. APM qualifications.
• Build and maintain effective internal and external working relationships.
• Listen to stakeholder requests, assimilate and convert into project team actions, plans and schedule
• Read, analyse and interpret charts, spreadsheets, schedules and (in some business areas) technical drawings
• Clear and concise communication approach both oral and written, at multiple levels. Compile and present presentations to peers and Senior Managers
• Lead good team morale and spirit and motivate others by example
• Manage resources effectively (people, budget, equipment)
• Allocate work to team members, taking account of individuals’ different abilities and workloads
• Hold people to account when they under deliver or let standards slop
• Translate strategy into operational reality

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

AWE’s ambition is to create workplaces that recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and where people feel able to be themselves at work. They strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following “this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different”.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Job Types: Full-time, Temporary contract
Contract length: 12 months

Benefits:

• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: On the road