Project Support Officer

Location: Cheadle, United Kingdom

Thales 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.

**Project Support Officer**

**Cheadle**

**Our Opportunity**:

- Responsible for providing a comprehensive and effective support service to bid and project management teams to ensure that all aspects of project governance are in place.
- The role operates within the context of the Project Management Office and activities will typically feature providing support to project control, planning, risk management, earned value management, general project co-ordination, document / data control, communications and stakeholder liaison.

**Principal Relationships**:

- Bid and Project Management Teams (especially Project Management Office),
- Configuration Management,
- Cross-organisational stakeholders (such as other functions; Engineering, Sales & Marketing, Finance)

**What the role has to offer**:

- Provide practical support to the production of dashboards, reports and data in advance of reviews.
- Ensure the accuracy of bid / project data and provide summarised information for consideration and analysis.
- Facilitate the effective and efficient operation of bid / project-specific meetings (for example; arranging meetings, preparation/collation of the relevant presentation material, coordinating input from attendees and producing information packs, the production and distribution of agendas, minutes, action registers)
- Coordinate and assist in the progress of documentation and configurable items from creation the document lifecycle, ensuring all stages of the process have been adhered to.
- Manage, track and quality assess documentation through the lifecycle, inputting data and information into the reporting cycle, as well as providing document management guidance and support to stakeholders.
- Provide practical support to the design and implementation of a document management system and product register.
- The role will also involve occasional ad-hoc duties that are not listed above but are necessary to respond to the needs of the business. These ad-hoc duties will be consistent with the nature of a Bid and Project Support position within Thales.

**About you**:

- Accuracy of reporting and the ability to present data in a clear, summarised fashion at a level appropriate to the needs of the particular task
- A positive attitude combined with excellent interpersonal skills
- Attention to detail.
- Business and commercial awareness
- Good communication skills at all levels.
- The ability to manage conflicting deadlines and priorities.
- The ability to operate across organisational boundaries - in a matrix-style organisation.
- The ability to be flexible and provide a helpful, positive approach to the requirements of the role.

**What We Can Offer**

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

LI-DOM

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 alternati