Project Manager - Defence

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£78,000–£109,200 a year

Clydebank

Location

Contract

Contract type

On-site

Work setup

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In brief

This project manager role involves leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex control accounts and projects across various business contexts. The work focuses on aligning project outputs with organisational vision while ensuring compliance with governance, policy, and MoD operating models.

Best for

Project managers with defence sector experience

Non-negotiable

SC clearance required

Worth knowing

Six-month fixed-term contract

What you need

Required

  • SC clearance

    Must already hold

  • Project management

    Clearly required in the listing

  • Team leadership

    Clearly required in the listing

  • Risk management

    Clearly required in the listing

  • Stakeholder management

    Clearly required in the listing

  • Governance and policy

    Clearly required in the listing

Preferred

No preferred skills or technologies were clearly stated.

Your day-to-day

  • Lead multidisciplinary project teams

    Clearly stated in the job description.

  • Manage project performance and delivery

    Clearly stated in the job description.

  • Ensure governance and policy compliance

    Clearly stated in the job description.

  • Engage with project customers

    Clearly stated in the job description.

  • Monitor contract performance

    Clearly stated in the job description.

Experience expected

Level

Mid-level

Based on what the listing states

Years of experience

Not stated

No clear years requirement found

Evidence from the listing

Experience level

“…roject Manager 6 months SC Cleared Overview of role: • To deliver semi-complex projects, multiple simple projects or complex control accounts addressing issues, or situations with limited supervision.”
Full job description (from employer)⌄

Project Manager 6 months SC Cleared Overview of role: • To deliver semi-complex projects, multiple simple projects or complex control accounts addressing issues, or situations with limited supervision. • To lead projects across a range of business contexts. Inform acquisition strategy and align portfolio/projects to the organisational vision. Typical main responsibilities: • Responsible for leading, managing and developing multidisciplinary teams covering a range of subject areas within associated semi-complex projects, multiple simple projects or complex control accounts. • Accountable for the delivery of their projects' outputs within the performance/cost/time envelope for a semi-complex project, multiple simple projects or complex control accounts. • Responsible for ensuring the most cost-effective and efficient means of delivery, whilst mitigating risk and leveraging opportunities. • Support an open, honest, no blame culture. Actively highlighting failures and shortfalls positively and drawing through LFE into the project or control account, advising on mitigations and engaging with OBI owner to mitigate wider occurrence. • Responsible for embedding and adhering to all governance and policy and enable the required compliance throughout their team, ensure appropriate challenge and gain approval to deviate when necessary. • Regularly meet the customer to understanding the objective, requirements and the means of acceptance in line with the MoD's Operating Model and Defence Lines of Development. • Deliver project requirements within the performance/cost/time envelope. Sustain and leverage value through the monitoring and management of contract performance against commitments (product and services) and meet our own obligations under the contract

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