Project Manager in Bristol, United Kingdom

Job Title – Project Manager

Job Location – Bristol, UK

We can offer hybrid working pattern, with time in our offices and your home, to enable a good work-life balance. We do require you to be on-site 60% of the time across the month (3 days per week on average) .

Job ID – 14720

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

From 12 UK sites, our team of over 1,400 people deliver unique capabilities across air, land, sea, space and cyber for military, security and commercial customers, worldwide.

L3Harris MAPPS (Bristol, Burgess Hill and Barrow-in-Furness) provides an Integrated Platform Management System (IPMS) for the Royal Navy sub-surface and surface fleets, notably current Astute submarine and Queen Elizabeth Class (QEC) aircraft carriers, in-build Type 26 and Type 31 frigates. This software provides integrated monitoring and control of ship propulsion, electrical functions, auxiliaries and damage control machinery and systems.

A few of our employee benefits

• 1pm finish every Friday

• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days

• Private medical insurance with optional family cover

• Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution

• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)

• Group income protection

• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme

• Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support

  What the role will involve

  The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

• Take full responsibility for project (contract) delivery and/or bid activity

• Manage customers and suppliers across multiple countries and time-zones

• Establish and maintain team organisation and communications plans

• Create and maintain project schedules and expediting of tasks

• Use appropriate planning techniques to help identify project resource requirements and manage availability with functional managers

• Work with Supply Chain and Commercial teams to ensure contract baselines, plans and schedules are maintained in line with agreed contract changes

• Develop and maintain monitoring and control of project deliverables

• Efficiently deliver clearly focused customer and company project financial and schedule performance reporting

• Maintain project risk and opportunity registers(s), arranging regular reviews and communicating in monthly reporting cycle

• Support development of project management capability to support business & company growth (including managing own personal development)

  What you’ll bring

  The role of Project Manager requires the following experience and skills:

• 3+ years’ experience in a similar role

• Ideally hold a Project Management qualification

• Experience of managing technical projects (ideally within the defence, aerospace, oil and gas, rail etc.)

• Experience with Microsoft Office, with a strong knowledge of Microsoft Project

• Knowledge, skills and experience in the following:

• Planning contract delivery

• Finance tracking, control and reporting

• Change control and baseline management

• Stakeholder management (subcontractors, engineers and suppliers)

• Knowledge of ‘waterfall’ lifecycle and EVM preferred

  Important to know

  Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.

  As an equal opportunities’ employer, L3Harris is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

  We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join L3Harris.

L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.