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Senior Project Manager 
Beckington (with a mix of office and home-based working)

We are SEA.
Engineered to protect. We protect what matters - our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world.
 
Join us.
A Senior Project Manager typically leads and manages SEA's projects of highest risk and complexity throughout the entire project lifecycle including bids and post project support.  A Senior Project Manager is able to derive wide value by managing collections of related projects with a programmatic view when required. A Senior Project Manager shall be a skilled influencer, able to develop business and maintain excellent customer relationships.  They shall consistently deliver promised business results.

What we offer
Your work, your contribution, deserves to be recognised and rewarded. Have a look at our top benefits below and click here to see everything we can offer you here at SEA.

All Staff Bonus, Hybrid/flexible working arrangements, Half day Fridays.
Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program, Wellbeing centre, Canada Life GP and financial advice
Electric vehicle charging points at all sites, Free on-site parking, Onsite showers and toiletries provision

What you’ll be doing

Manage bids, programmes, projects, tasks and work packages taking responsibility for the outcomes, budget, quality and timescales.
Act as the customer, subcontractor and internal point of contact
Provide effective and wide-ranging leadership in the project and beyond, engender team spirit, develop teams and focus effort on delivery on common goals
Leverage a deep understanding of SEA's business and technology to add value in how projects are delivered through effective planning, risk and opportunity management and issue handling.
Operate in line with SEA's business management system and actively champion the improvement of working processes in line with industry best practice and cutting-edge developments.
Drive continual improvement within projects and work packages, gathering lessons and reducing waste. 
Commit to personal continued professional and competence development.Travel may be required to other SEA sites as well as customer and supplier premises both in the UK and abroad.

The skills you need

Experience of managing firm price, complex system contracts of multi-million pound value
Expert in planning, risk and opportunity management
An excellent communicator and able to demonstrate both effective change and conflict management with highly developed influencing skills
Proven in-depth knowledge and experience of all phases of a project from inception, planning and organisation, monitoring and control, closure in the military environment
Deep knowledge of the full range of project management competencies including financial and earned value management, risk and opportunity management and supplier and subcontractor project management
Extensive Knowledge and experience of different commercial arrangements including fixed price design and manufacture, availability-based service provision, build-to-print, time and materials contracts, etc.
Hands-on experience of working with project management tools, such as Microsoft Project, risk registers, etc. including the ability to use advanced features when necessary
Formal qualifications with the APM (to PMQ), professional registration or actively working towards similar level qualifications. 
Join us and be part of something smaller - with 400 people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger: protecting what matters. 
 
If you would like to know more, please give our Talent Acquisition Business Partner Kelly-Ann Thomas a call on (phone number removed).

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