Project Director

4 weeks ago


Culham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom UK Atomic Energy Authority Full time
Project Manager

This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions.

The Role

We are seeking a skilled Project Manager to play a pivotal role in ensuring that projects are delivered to budget, schedule, and quality standards. As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for managing medium-sized projects with budgets of up to circa £10M.

Key Responsibilities
  • Providing management of project(s) of budgets of up to circa £10M.
  • Evaluating and presenting decisions that secure the benefits the project is tasked to deliver.
  • Resolving obstacles to strategy delivery and supporting the identification and employment of creative solutions to overcoming them.
  • Managing project document development for a project lifecycle in compliance with the UKAEA's Quality Assurance requirements.
  • Reporting of progress against milestones, changes, exceptions, budgets, and other key performance indicators.
Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you will need:

  • Chartered status in a relevant STEM discipline.
  • A track record of delivering complex engineering projects to budget, time, and cost.
  • A passion for ensuring good project management practices and culture.

Typical professional qualifications include:

  • APM Project Management Qualification
  • APM Practitioner Qualification
  • Prince 2 Practitioner
  • Agile Project Management Practitioner
Additional Information

We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly individuals from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and women. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) Partner and Inclusion Ambassadors, actively promotes EDI and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.

Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.


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