Senior Project Manager

Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: Bristol
Package: Competitive Salary + Benefits Package
Role Type: Full-time / Permanent
Role ID: SF17804

The Role
Join QinetiQ as a Senior Project Manager within the Mission Rehearsal Integrated Delivery Team. This area is responsible for modernising and transforming QinetiQ’s capabilities across the air ranges. The current Long Term Partnering Agreement (LTPA) runs to at least 2028, with a clear requirement to transform the UK Air Ranges by introducing new and modern capabilities.

With your expertise, you'll drive excellence in multiple projects and be responsible for the safe delivery and oversight of a diverse portfolio of strategically important investment projects as part of the Air Ranges Modernisation (ARM) Programme and report directly to the Programme Manager. If you are a proactive Senior Project Manager with a passion for delivering quality in a dynamic environment, QinetiQ offers the perfect opportunity to advance your career.

Day-to-day, you will:

• Enable key digital, data and communication capability enhancements in a dynamic environment.
• Develop and maintain relationships with customers.
• Work with a team of highly experienced engineers to identify new capabilities that enhance the range offering for our customers.
• Manage external and internal stakeholders.
• Lead the development of business cases for future capabilities.
• Develop and maintain key project documents including Project Management Plan, Risk Register, and Project Reporting Pack.
• Deliver a mix of standard and major projects with some interdependencies.
• Generate accurate workload forecasts to support resource planning within the business and functions.

This role is full-time, 37 hours per week, and you will be based at our Bristol site. The ability and willingness to travel to other various sites is required.

Experience of the Senior Project Manager:

• Demonstrable experience leading and successfully delivering complex projects.
• Experience delivering defence, engineering, and/or IT projects.
• Strong Stakeholder Management: identifying, planning, and implementing actions to positively engage parties with an interest in, or influence over, the project outputs.
• Ability to manage multiple external customers.
• Experience in Defence, Aerospace, or other closely related sectors.

Qualifications of the Senior Project Manager:

• Degree (or equivalent experience) in an appropriate discipline.
• Hold a recognised PM qualification (APM Project Professional Qualification (PPQ) or Prince2).

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

Our Benefits

• 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 community.

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.

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits. You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer includes adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance, and Dental Insurance, and much more.

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 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.

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that 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 that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held, and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.