Project Support Officer (H3 Tech Portfolio) in Bristol, United Kingdom

Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.

GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 15,000 employees across 41 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

Job Summary

GKN Aerospace is the world’s leading multi-technology tier 1 aerospace supplier. Our technologies are used in aircraft ranging from the most used single aisle aircraft and the largest passenger planes in the world to business jets and the world’s advanced 5th generation fighter aircraft. GKN’s new Global Technology Centre (GTC) in Filton, Bristol is a £32m state of the art technology research and development facility which will act as a hub for world-class innovative technology for the next generation of fuel-efficient aircraft. We are looking for a Senior Engineer with a background in power electronics and motor control to develop electrical drive hardware which will help shape the future of flight. You will be involved in the full development cycle of high-power, high-performance electrical drives for future aircraft propulsion. You will have the opportunity to contribute from requirements and specification, through to development and test definition, helping to prove and evolve novel technologies in a demanding, ground-breaking application.

The successful PSO will join our dynamic Horizon3 (H3) Technology Team and play a vital role in supporting our leadership by overseeing financial and operational reporting for the CTO/H3 Tech portfolio, managing a budget of approximately £20 million annually. In addition to coordinating and collating essential reports, you’ll provide crucial support services to the Leadership team, including managing contracts (NDAs and Research agreements) and facilitating procurement processes (issuing Purchase Orders and approving new suppliers).

If you’re ready to be part of a collaborative team driving innovation, we want to hear from you!

How You’ll Contribute

• Establishing & maintain the budget reporting structures in the Project Management tool (Clarizen).

• Coordinate baseline budgets and deliverables across five global reporting units in the UK, Netherlands and Sweden, and associated change management / tracking of budget/deliverables changes

• Report both status and forecasts of the H3 portfolio to Senior Leadership, including KPI’s for finance, resource, IP and deliverables from global reporting units

• Accountable for specific ‘H3 Core Management’ and ‘H3 Seed’ budgets

• Continuously improve reporting tools and methods in line with the Project management Function

• Facilitate Risk and Opportunity management activities at H3 Portfolio level

• Co-ordinate purchase order request and tracking activities (for non-Project ‘H3 Core’ and ‘H3 Seed’ budgets) and support the registration of new suppliers

• Drive the coordination of NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreements) and Collaboration agreements.

What you’ll bring

To help us make a difference, you’ll bring your passion and talent for what you do along with the following skills, experience, qualifications and attributes:

Essential:

• Proven working experience in supporting projects in an industrial or technology environment

• Experience in reporting project status and recommendations to leadership

• Experience dealing with multiple stakeholders

• Eperience with project management software tools (incl. MS Projects), methodologies

• Experience in data analysis

  Desirable:

• Project Management Professional certification like IPMA level D /PMP CAPM/ APM FPQ / /Other certification

We are looking for people who want to make a difference, talented members with the skills and passions to become the best of the future in what they do. To be successful in this role you will love to be customer/client facing, and build strong, professional relationships, and have the confidence to approach people at all levels of seniority. You must have excellent interpersonal skills that enable you to work collaboratively with senior management to deliver our business priorities. You are comfortable with ambiguity, and take ownership of situations even when clear or explicit guidance is not available. You are confident to say ‘no’ to requests where required, such as when they are out of scope for your role and/or your bandwidth does to reasonably permit To be successful in this role you must have Strong design, analytical, and troubleshooting capabilities, someone whom can identify complex problems, decompose them and solve them. You will be energetic and self-motivated with the ability to work independently and in a team environment.

What We’ll Offer

Once you’re on board you’ll get the following perks and benefits:

• Competitive salary dependant on experience

• Hybrid working – giving you the opportunity to balance home and office working

• Industry Leading Pension Scheme = we’ll match your contributions up to 8% on a 1 : 1.5 basis

• Life Assurance 8 x salary

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays

• Income protection

• Shopping discounts

• Cycle To Work Scheme

• Employee Assistance Programme

• A collaborative, dynamic working environment

  As well as a competitive package we’ll offer you a world of opportunity. We want to see your career fly! We’ll support your career progression by providing you with learning and development opportunities. That’s the beauty of being part of a global business, once you’re on board you never know where you career journey may take you!

  We’ll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?

  A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working

  Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we’ve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. It’s a culture that won us ‘The Best Workplace Culture Award’. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.

  We’re also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.

  We are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology. ​

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