Overview
Engineered to Protect, that’s our promise, we protect what matters – our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world. As Senior Programme Manager, you will be responsible for the mobilisation and execution of a significant portion of the company’s Ship & Fleet Protection business area, centred around large maritime defence contracts and smaller, related projects. Together, these comprise a Programme of related projects.
This role will be based at either our Barnstaple or Bristol sites with an expected on site presence 2 days per week, but allows for flexible working.
The salary for this role is up to £75k, depending on experience.
What you’ll be doing
- Lead the delivery of the allocated Programmes and projects in line with the overall company strategy
- Plan and monitor programme and project execution, leading to the successful delivery of programmes to time, cost & quality
- Set goals and objectives for projects
- Develop, approve and manage budgets
- Report programme status updates to the leadership team
- Apply change, risk, and resource management principles and best-practice.
- Act as senior interface to customers and external stakeholders
- Mitigate/resolve issues within project teams and with stakeholders
- Maximise business outturns through continual monitoring and identification of opportunities, both within existing project baselines and new business
- Act as a role model, setting the standards for Project, Programme and Portfolio Management
The skills you’ll need
- Multi-year experience managing multiple firm price £50m+ UK maritime defence programmes
- Proven in-depth knowledge and experience of all phases of a project from inception, planning and organisation, monitoring & control and closure.
- Expert in risk and opportunity management
- Direct experience working alongside senior stakeholders from the Royal Navy, UKMOD and applicable industry.
- An excellent communicator at both senior and lower working levels.
- Able to demonstrate both effective change and conflict management with highly developed influencing skills
- Experience of contemporary project managements tools, including Earned Value Management
- An improvement and growth mindset
- Formal qualifications with the APM (PMQ/PPQ), professional registration (ChPP) or actively working towards similar level qualifications.
About our company
At SEA, we develop and deliver advanced solutions to make our world safer, cleaner and more efficient.
We provide state-of-the-art applications for naval ship and fleet protection, and undersea surveillance systems. In-service across the globe, our systems deliver a rapid response to threats and system effectiveness and interoperation. Our systems support an ever-growing number of navies across the world, and we continue to bolster our already specialist, on-the-ground knowledge of key overseas markets.
What we offer
At our core, we encourage innovation, flexibility and out-of-the-box thinking to solve problems, so we’re always looking for talented, flexible, and creative people to bring their best to SEA. In return we offer generous rewards, a fantastic work/life balance, and excellent career and training opportunities for everyone who joins. Have a look at the benefits we offer:
Work life balance
- Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
- 25 days’ annual leave, plus buy and sell
- Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual
- Half day Fridays
- Reservists in the Armed Forces receive special paid leave
Family & wellbeing
- Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program
- All Staff Bonus
- Group Pension Plan of up to 7% employer contribution
- Cycle to work scheme
- Wellbeing Centre
- Sports & Social activities
- Employee Discounts portal – online and in-store discounts, travel savings
- Life assurance policy
- Publication and recruitment bonus rewards
- Development opportunities, including LinkedIn learning
Facilities & resources
- Electric vehicle charging points at all sites
- Private seated lunch areas
- Onsite bistro (Barnstaple office) and free hot and cold beverages
- Onsite showers and toiletries provision
- Free onsite parking
Join us and be part of something smaller – with 500 people in the UK and Canada – doing something bigger: protecting what matters.
If you’d like to know more, please give Dave from our Talent Acquisition Team a call on 03330 0414172. Or reach out to us on
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