Project Manager - Cyber
Posted 1 day ago by Matchtech
£71 Per hour
Inside
Remote
Preston, Lancashire
Summary: The Project Manager will oversee a 6-month contract focused on a Cyber work transfer project for Submarines at BAE Systems. The role involves managing project plans, governance processes, and business analysis while ensuring effective collaboration and communication among stakeholders. The position requires strong leadership and influencing skills, along with the ability to work under pressure. Security clearance is mandatory, and the candidate must be a sole British national with a minimum of five years of residency in the UK.
Key Responsibilities:
- Creating, maintaining and reporting progress against a project plan
- Holding all parties to achieve the project plan
- Managing the project through governance processes
- Leading any scope change/rebaselining activities
- Maintaining a requirements catalogue
- Managing the traceability of requirements through to delivery
- Contributing to various aspects of the project as needed
Key Skills:
- Strong leadership skills
- Excellent collaborative skills
- Excellent influencing skills
- Formal qualifications in Project Management preferred
- Experience on-the-job training is valuable
- Ability to work in challenging and high-pressure conditions
- Eligibility for Security Clearance (SC)
Salary (Rate): £71.45 hourly
City: Preston
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Project Manager - 6 month contract - Preston (remote with ocassional travel) - £71.45 ph UMB or £52.93 ph PAYE (Inside IR35)The Umbrella rate quoted above is the Gross Umbrella rate (i.e. the rate we pay to the Umbrella Company inclusive of ALL employment costs). Please note, the rate paid by the Umbrella will be less, as will a Limited Deemed rate or Agency PAYE rate. Please get in touch to discuss the rates via these different payment vehicles.
The Role
The roleholder will be assigned to Submarines Cyber work transfer project that is moving Cyber assurance for enterprise services from a sector team to a central Shared Services team. The project involves scope clarification, resourcing, knowledge transfer, business change and measuring/monitoring impact of the change. The key activities will comprise:
- Creating, maintaining and reporting progress against a project plan
- Holding all parties to achieve the project plan
- Managing the project through governance processes
- Leading any scope change/rebaselining activities
- Maintaining a requirements catalogue
- Managing the traceability of requirements through to delivery
- Business Analysis
This is a small project team and the roleholder is expected to be very hands-on, contributing to whatever aspects of the project are required to achieve success and will work with but report into the Transformation Mgr on a day-to-day basis.
What are BAE Systems looking for from you?
- Strong leadership skills
- Excellent collaborative skills
- Excellent influencing skills
- The role requires a robust character that can work in challenging and high pressure conditions.
- Formal Qualifications in Project Management are preferred but recognise that experience on the job training are equally valuable.
Security Requirements: SC & UK EYES ONLYThis role will require the person to hold full Security Clearance (SC) prior to working onsite. You will need to obtain a BPSS check as part of this process. You must currently hold or be eligible and willing to obtain SC and you must be eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship and have lived and worked in the UK for a minimum 5 year period. If you are unsure as to whether you are eligible, please contact me to discuss.
This role also requires you to be a sole British national and therefore hold no other nationalities.