Project Manager

Project Manager – Inside IR35

Contract Term: 18 months

Contracting Authority: AWE

Location: Hybrid Working (up to three days per week on-site, Aldermaston-Reading)

What if you could work on something that you can’t test… but cannot afford to fail?  Something that could have spent years on a submarine, is launched into outer space (where the temperature is below -250c), comes hurtling through the atmosphere, being heated up and shaken and then must work?  Some challenge.

That’s exactly what the team of over 6,500 people at AWE do every day: delivering important work, in support of the most important mission – keeping the nation safe.

AWE plays a crucial role in national nuclear security. Their role in nuclear deterrence and their specialist technical assistance to nuclear threat reduction is vital in the defence against the most serious threats faced by the UK. Working to support the defence of our country, AWE has a clear mission: to keep everyone, the environment, their products and information, sites and everything around them, safe and secure.

Job Purpose:

The projects candidates will be looking after are:

• Security Based - Involves civils, commercial, contractual via CEMAR, Security systems re-instatement and commissioning
• Security upgrades

As a Project Manager, your main responsibilities would be to: 

• Manage projects with focus on Governance (compliance and reporting).
• Management of project resources (people, money).
• Lead the planning of the task/project.
• Manage work as defined in the Work Authorisation Document (WAD).
• Lead, support and initiate change against the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB).
• Lead, initiate and perform risk and opportunity identification and subsequent actions.
• Deliver assigned projects in accordance with requirements, operational constraints, time, cost and quality.
• Lead, coach and develop a team at a local level to deliver team and personal objectives safely and securely to meet our operational plans.
• Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality

Essential:

• Membership of a relevant professional body. Active SC Clearance is a must for this role 
• Evidence of project management competence e.g. APM qualifications.
• Motivating and managing in a highly regulated environment.
• Earned Value Management.
• ACM.
• Budgetary responsibility up to £10M pa aligned with work breakdown structure (WBS) for assigned project
• Good standard of education to include English and Maths at GCSE or equivalent.

Desirable:

• DV Clearance
• Graduate level of qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience

If this Project Manager role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply and get in touch with Michelle.floyd@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

AWE’s ambition is to create workplaces that recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and where people feel able to be themselves at work. They strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following “this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different”.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.