// Role Summary
Join QinetiQ as a Project Manager at Boscombe Down, where you'll drive innovation in defence technology by developing, procuring, and integrating systems for test and evaluation ranges.
// Key Responsibilities
- Manage the development, procurement, and integration of systems for defence test and evaluation ranges.
- Deliver projects safely, on time, to cost, and to quality standards.
- Develop and maintain robust project plans, resource schedules, and cost forecasts.
- Provide regular, honest, and timely project reporting.
- Requires experience in project delivery, complex issue decomposition, procurement processes, and systems engineering.
- Must be eligible for SC clearance as a minimum.
// Role Specification
About the Role
Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow, we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations, our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Project Manager at our Boscombe Down site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.
As a Project Manager in our UK Defence function, you will be developing, procuring, and integrating systems onto our test and evaluation ranges, together with the deployment and delivery of trials, training, and operational exercises.
Day to day, you’ll be testing, researching, supplying, preparing, and sustaining client platforms and weapon systems for operational use by providing test, exercise, modelling, analysis services, and laboratory facilities, in safe, realistic, and instrumented environments.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Development of clear and compelling customer proposals
- Delivery of projects safely and to time, cost, and quality
- Production and maintenance of robust project plans and resource/cost schedules (PPM), with which to manage the projects & forecast expenditure
- Regular, open, honest, and timely project reporting using corporate tools and in line with financial reporting requirements
Essential experience for the Project Manager:
- Track record of successful delivery of projects and programmes to defined cost, timescale, and budget
- Ability to decompose complex issues, to an appropriate level of detail, in a methodical manner
- First-hand experience of procurement and tendering processes (e.g., the production of specifications, definition of supplier selection criteria, and contracting)
- Experience of systems engineering discipline
Essential qualifications for the Project Manager:
- Industry-recognised qualification such as Prince2, AMP, PMP
We value difference, and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education. Provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn, then we would like to hear from you.
This role is 37 hours per week, based at our Boscombe Down QinetiQ site, with a minimum average site attendance of three days per week. Please note that there will be expected travel to the test sites, which are based at Aberporth, West Freugh, and the Hebrides.
Boscombe Down
MOD Boscombe Down is a unique operational site featuring the longest military runway in the UK. Primarily focusing on providing testing, evaluation, and support services for aviation and aerospace systems. Renowned for its extensive flight-testing capabilities, the site plays a vital role in the UK’s aviation defence, contributing to the development, testing, and airworthiness of military aircraft, enhancing operational readiness and effectiveness.
Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.
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.
As a QinetiQ employee, you’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines, and experiences 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. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture: www.qinetiq.com/en/careers/life-at-qinetiq.
Our Benefits
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days
- Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance, and Dental Insurance
- Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets, and much more
- We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
- Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and local community