Job Title:  Project Manager

Job Location: Portchester, UK

Schedule: Monday to Friday, 40 hours

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

From 11 UK sites, our team of nearly 1,000 people delivers unique capabilities across space, air, land, sea and cyber for military, security and commercial customers across the UK and worldwide.

L3Harris in Portchester are the maritime industry’s autonomy partner of choice, we are powering the Royal Navy’s adoption of autonomous surface vehicle technology as well as delivering autonomous capability to UK ports, harbours and offshore energy service providers. We have delivered more than 100 autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) systems.

The Project Manager is responsible for ensuring successful planning, execution and delivery of allocated projects within the L3Harris ASV site with full accountability for ensuring on-time and budget delivery to the required quality levels.

Reporting to the Senior Leadership, the PM will provide the leadership and drive to a multi-functional project team accountable for meeting agreed customer requirements and project goals in line with the L3Harris business processes.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• Flexi Time Working Policy – Up to 3 days off per month
• 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:

• Effective execution and delivery of allocated projects; meeting and maximising performance against time, cost and quality criteria.
• Planning, management and control of projects utilising L3Harris processes and systems together with recognised best practice project management techniques.

• Creating a robust plan clearly detailing key activities, milestones and deliverables against customer requirements and contractual scope.
• Maintaining this plan throughout the project and utilise as a tool to communicate as well as monitor/control progress.

• Building strong customer relationships
• Providing accurate, concise and timely project performance reporting information in support of the Project Review cycle.
• Ensuring project resource and capability requirements are defined and deployed.
• Effectively managing risks, issues and opportunities through robust processes and working with the appropriate stakeholders to assess, building risk mitigation measures into the project as required.

What you’ll bring

The role requires the following experience and skills:

• Demonstrable experience in a Project Management
• Demonstrable track record of successfully delivery
• Formally accredited Project Management qualifications e.g. APM/Prince 2/PMI or equivalent and able to demonstrate effective application of tools and techniques in a real environment
• Strong people management and communication skills demonstrable within a project delivery scenario
• Able to apply, analyse and report against project measures and data
• Degree or equivalent in a relevant subject and a technology/engineering appreciation (desirable)
• Experience within the Defence and/or Marine domain (desirable)
• Commercially astute with experience of developing/maintaining robust and pro-active customer relationships (desirable)
• Experience in stakeholder and supplier management as well as project governance, risk and resource management (desirable)

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.

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