Senior Project Manager Aerospace

INZPIRE LTD; Amesbury; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace solutions provider is looking for a Senior Project Manager to lead high-value projects at Boscombe Down. The role involves managing project delivery, engaging with stakeholders, and ensuring compliance with governance. Interested applicants should have aerospace industry experience and hold a recognized PM qualification. Opportunities for hybrid working are available, promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace culture.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Generous holiday allowance

Health Cash Plan and Private Medical Insurance

Employee discount portal

Volunteering Opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in building teams and delivering high-value projects.
• Previous experience delivering projects to multiple customers simultaneously.
• Experience in the Aerospace industry, preferably focused on helicopters.

Responsibilities

• Develop positive engagement with project customers, partners, and suppliers.
• Deliver complex projects ensuring the team's adherence to performance management.
• Manage external advisors and ensure governance requirements are met.
• Define project budgets and track progress against a cost plan.

Skills

Team building

Stakeholder management

Aerospace project delivery

Bid management

Risk management

Education

PM qualification (APM, PPQ, or Prince2)

Job description

Job Title: Senior Project Manager - Aerospace (FTC)

Location: Amesbury, England, United Kingdom

Role Type: Fixed Term – Full Time

Package: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role ID: SF19324

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 Senior 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.

The Role

The UK Defence business within QinetiQ is involved in a wide variety of exciting projects and programmes, from innovative research, through to modifications or complex flight trials across all domains. As a member of our project management community, you can expect to be leading teams to deliver projects in the UK, as well as supporting international opportunities as we continue to grow.

We have a Senior Project Manager opportunity based at our Boscombe Down site working in our Helicopter & Air Support Delivery Team (HelAS IDT).

Day‑to‑day, you’ll be responsible for delivery of high value or complex projects in our Helicopter portfolio and tasked with ensuring our commitments to our internal and external stakeholders are met. Our projects have a diverse and complex stakeholder community, both internal and external to the company.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Development and maintenance of positive engagement with project customers, partners and suppliers
• Delivery of high value (£5m per annum) or complex projects whilst ensuring project members operate in line with the Operating Framework & functional competency management requirements; and have appropriate personal objectives recorded in the QinetiQ performance management system
• Application of governance requirements (including lifecycle, project & independent reviews as appropriate) for delivery work whilst operating in a Safe & Secure manner
• Managing the activities of the external advisors, including the management of their appointments, via appointed Procurement Team Managers within QinetiQ
• Defining and agreeing an appropriate budget, delivering the Project within this budget and managing and reporting progress against an agreed cost plan
• Managementcs of project documentation to include Bids, proposals and third‑party documentation (configuration control)

Essential experience of the合法么 Project Manager:

他>Experience in building teams and delivering high‑value projects
• Previous experience delivering projects to multiple different customers simultaneously Demonstrable stake holder management and engagement experience
• Experience in working in the Aerospace industry, preferably focused on helicopters
• Bid or Risk management experience

Essential qualifications for the Senior Project Manager:

• Hold a recognised PM qualification (APM, PPQ, or Prince2)

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 per week based at Boscombe Down.

• Hybrid working patterns are available

Boscombe Down

قض¹MED 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.

Why Join QinetiQ? Asoutin how grows 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

Benefits

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days
• Options to join Health(xs) 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

Our Recruitment Process

We want to make sure that our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and we aspire to bring out the best in our candidates by creating an environment where everyone feels valued, heard and supported. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. তারা number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which means factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.