Receivers Project Manager

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 the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, 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.

Receivers Project Manager

Based Cheadle - hybrid

 Do you enjoy developing. upskilling and building teams to ensure a first class service ?  Are you interested in an opportunity to work in an exciting, dynamic and fast moving environment?

What the role has to offer:

• Opportunity to lead innovative world leading solutions from inception to delivery

• Great opportunity for career development  - working within a highly supportive team

• Great opportunity to join a growing business where you can really add value to business growth

• A high profile programme where you will be able to influence and shape the next generation of technology

What can we offer you?

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes;

• Performance Related Bonus
• Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00pm
• Pension Scheme
• 28 days annual leave (Plus Bank Holidays) 
• Life Cover
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
• Gym membership discounts

Our Opportunity

We have a really exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join Thales Underwater Systems (UWS) to provide support on the P15 Programme which is a UK MOD led programme to deliver the next generation of submarine technology to the Royal Navy.

You will be responsible for the successful delivery of a key package of work within the programme and for achieving programme objectives to the satisfaction of both Thales programme team the customer.

The role requires strong leadership, professional project management knowledge and expertise, excellent stakeholder management, team building skills, and a proactive approach to identifying and managing risks and opportunities

Some of the Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Motivating and supporting the Project Teams within the  P15 Programme

• Managing stakeholders, in particular customer and supplier relationships – building trust and confidence through open dialogue and leveraging adjacent functions as appropriate E.g. Procurement, Key Account Management

• Defining Project Execution Strategies and leading the creation of Project Baselines and structures for various work package

• Ensuring that the project maintains a robust Cost and Schedule baseline at all times through the execution phase of the lifecycle and that forecasts against the baseline are accurate

• Ensuring robust Project Controls are deployed and effective

• Liaison with contributing functions to drive quality, cost & delivery performance

• Management of the project Cash profile, ensuring timely invoicing of the customer and addressing any overdue payments

• Management of Change Orders to contracted scope including the application of associated Bid Governance, leading and coordinating multi-disciplinary teams and the supply chain to develop proposals and ensuring that integrity of the Project baseline is maintained at all times

This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held; if not currently held it is expected that the post holder will undergo SC Clearance, please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.

About you:

You will have a proven track record of leading and delivering successful projects with a technical bias within a complex, multi-site global organisation

• Delivering Projects or work packages with a large software content

• Leading the process of structuring and planning complex projects and work packages with tailored deployment using best practice project controls

• Directing project activities with reference to the baseline and critical path, with a focus on proactive risk and opportunity management and controlling variance to time/cost/quality

• Project financial and contractual management

• Managing demand/business planning principles in a project context with a focus on the reliable forecasting of resource requirements (including critical skills) and working with adjacent functions to schedule those appropriately

• Representing projects through established governance, giving an evidence-based account of progress and distilling key risks/opportunities/support needed for Senior Management

• Managing multiple internal and external stakeholders up to senior management

• Managing Software Projects/Work Packages using Agile

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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.

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