Project Manager

1 week ago

Cheadle, Staffordshire, United Kingdom Thales Group Full time

Location: Cheadle, United KingdomThales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Job title: Project Manager

Location: Cheadle, Greater Manchester - Hybrid role with the expectation of being in the office 3 days a week

Are you looking for a new opportunity as a Project Manager? Do you wish to utilise your skills on a substantial programme? If so, then we may have the role for you

What the role has to offer:

  • An opportunity to work on a major UK submarine programme through its whole lifecycle from innovative design through to platform installation. Be part of one of the largest sonar programmes in Thales helping to shape the future of the UK Navy.

Our Opportunity:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join Thales Underwater Systems (UWS) to work on a major UK submarine programme supporting the UK navy.

This role is to ensure the successful delivery of hardware aspects of our large P15 Programme here at Thales.

Key tasks/Responsibilities:

  • Leadership and management – motivating and supporting the Project Team and individuals within the Project Team
  • Managing stakeholders, in particular customer and supplier relationships
  • Defining Project Execution Strategies and leading the creation of Project Baselines and structures for the hardware Work Packages
  • Project financial and contractual management
  • Mentoring work package manager and some management of engineering teams
  • Ensuring robust Project Controls are deployed and effective
  • Representing the Project through established governance – both lifecycle Gates and periodic Project Review

About You:

  • You will have proven experience working as a Project Manager, and will have a combination of technical expertise, interpersonal skills and strategic thinking to lead teams to deliver successful projects/programmes.
  • Ideally you will have some knowledge of hardware engineering and have worked in a defence environment together with an understanding of Project Management techniques – for example, but not limited to; scheduling, risk management, stakeholder management, estimating, progress reporting.
  • The successful candidate will need full UK Security Clearance (SC) -For more information and guidance please visit the UKSV website*

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In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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