Assistant Project Manager

Location: Templecombe, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Job title: Assistant Project Manager

Location : Templecombe (hybrid working arrangement)

Do you have an interest in Project Management? Are you looking for a step into a role where you will work in a highly regarded team who will support your learning and development? Then look no further…

We are looking for someone who either has pre-existing experience of working as an Assistant Project Manager, or someone who has worked in a Project Management environment as a Project Assistant (or similar), who is looking for a step into becoming an Assistant Project Manager.

Core Benefits:

On offer is a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes:

• Performance-related bonus

• Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00pm

• 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) plus opportunity to buy up to 40 hours/year (pro rata)

• 24 hours volunteering paid for

• Private healthcare (grade dependent)

• Pension scheme

• Life cover

• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app

• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers

• Gym membership discounts

What does the job involve?

Undertake the activities that will ensure the successful delivery of the project. This will typically include supporting the Project Manager (PM) with the following key responsibilities:

• Deliver the key results and performance metrics of the project, including gross margin and cash.

• Supporting the PM in the creation of key bid artefacts (i.e. delivery schedule, estimate, gate packs etc.) to ensure swift contract placement by the customer.

• Project Governance (the Gate and Stage Processes) over the bid and project delivery activities to ensure project, technical, procurement and support processes are applied and are effective in controlling risks.

• Ensure all business planning and reporting is published in accordance with Business directives.

• Drive Quality, Cost & Delivery performance through close working with other functions.

• Manage project stakeholders; ensuring strong communications are established and maintained.

• Taking direct management of project risk, opportunities and schedule management working with the PMO.

• Assisting the PM with internal project kick off, creating first draft of the supporting artefacts required with a view to lead future kick off events.

• Ensure “Lessons Learned Management” is applied to all projects, entailing application of lessons from other projects, and capturing lessons learned on specific projects under your control.

What are we looking for?

• Knowledge of project management skills, ideally from working in a complex, multidisciplinary, multi-site organisation.

• Communication skills with the ability to communicate occasionally with customers, partners, suppliers and other parts of the business (stakeholder management skills).

• Written presentation and report writing skills.

• Understanding of generic processes and techniques used to schedule project activities (for example; Work Breakdown Structure, Organisational Breakdown Structure, milestones, dependencies, Earned Value Management).

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