Head of Programme Management, Engineering Capability Lead

1 month ago

Retford, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom UK Atomic Energy Authority Full time
Job Description

For more information on UK Atomic Energy Authority, visit: https://careers.ukaea.uk/wp-content/uploads/download/UKIFS_CandidateRecruitmentPack.pdf

Employees of UK Atomic Energy Authority can be based at either of our sites; West Burton, Nottinghamshire or Culham, Oxfordshire (our preference is West Burton).

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

As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for leading teams of project and technical professionals to provide STEP the essential engineering people, tools and capability to achieve an integrated fusion prototype design.

Your Key Responsibilities

  • Leading a team of project professionals drawn from across all parts of the STEP programme, providing guidance, leadership, and support to ensure the team's effectiveness and professional growth.
  • Providing strategic advice to the SRO, Programme Director, Director Engineering Programme on matters pertaining to delivery of the defined engineering capability programme of works.
  • Providing direction to the senior leadership team and the delivery teams (series of internal project managers/delivery teams) to ensure the effective delivery of the engineering programme.
  • Managing the day to day running and ongoing management of the engineering capability programme and engineering function change projects, to ensure that the required capability is available, as required, across all parts of STEP and collaborating organisations
  • Leading prioritisation and instruct value engineering exercises on projects within the capability development programme ensuring funding spend remains on track and that the programme is delivered in line with expected quality standards and strategic objectives.
  • Providing clear leadership to the Project Managers; resolving obstacles to delivery within the programme and leading the identification and employment of solutions to overcome them.

Qualifications

  • Excellent leadership and team management skills, with a track record of successfully leading and developing high-performance teams.
  • Experience of managing large programmes in a technical or engineering environment (>£100M).
  • In-depth knowledge of project and programme delivery including financial management of significant budgets.
  • Appropriate qualifications, such as MSP Foundation, Practitioner or Advanced Practitioner.
  • Proven ability to handle ambiguity, uncertainty and high levels of complexity in project delivery.
  • Substantial experience in working with a diverse range of senior stakeholders and external partners, ideally with an element of public funding.
  • Experience in delivering engineering capability including digital tool development, modelling and validation capabilities.
  • A commitment to ethical business practices and a high level of integrity.

Additional Information

A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/

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.

For applicants applying from outside the United Kingdom or those who have spent time outside the UK in the last five years, please visit the following link for information on criminal records checks: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants If your country of residence or previous residence is not listed on the website or if the UK Government does not have information on obtaining a criminal records check from that state, we regret to inform you that we cannot process your application.

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