Project Manager - Defence Digital

Job title:        Project Manager - Defence Digital
Location:       Portsmouth
Package:       Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits Package
Role Type:     Full-time / Permanent 
Role ID:         SF16366
 
Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as a Project Manager within our UK Defence Team working on the Defence Digital Programme based at our Portsmouth office where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and many of the industry’s most brilliant minds.

 

The Role

As a Project Manager, you’ll have a role that is out of the ordinary. You will be responsible for the delivery of high-value projects within our Defence Digital Team. 

Day-to-day, you will develop and maintain positive engagement with project customers, partners and suppliers.

 

You will also be responsible for:

• Delivering project outputs to an agreed baseline across customer satisfaction, time, cost, quality, cash and sales
• Ensuring project members operate in line with QinetiQ's operating framework & functional competency management requirements and have appropriate personal objectives recorded in QinetiQ's performance management system
• Resolving conflicts within the project and collaborating across QinetiQ
• Maintaining forecasts for both financial and resource demand signalling for sales and delivery
• Applying governance requirements including lifecycle, project & independent reviews as appropriate for foundation sales and delivery work

This role is full-time, 37-hours per week, and based at our Portsmouth site with flexible, hybrid working arrangements. 

 

Essential experience for the Project Manager:

• Operating as a Project Manager within IT Communications, Information Assurance and Cyber Security
• Managing complex projects within a defence or delivering projects specifically to a defence contractor 
• Project Management experience using Waterfall methodology

 
Qualifications for the Project Manager:

• Previous experience in a Project Management Office 
• APM qualified or another comparable PM qualification
• The successful candidate must be willing to undergo DV Clearance, please see the link below for guidance

Please note that all applicants must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum. 

UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

 

Our Benefits:

• Adaptive and flexible working
• Generous holiday allowance
• Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Matched contribution Pension Scheme, with Life Assurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more.
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy up to 5 days’ additional leave
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant
• Payroll Giving and Volunteering - helping charities and local communities

 
Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those which help the defence community. 

 

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture.

 

About QinetiQ

As a company of thousands of dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

 

Security

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information, which mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

Application Guidance

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please contact your regional recruiting team in strictest confidence. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.