Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

Package: Starting from £49,830 (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)

Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

Let us introduce the role:

We are looking for an adaptable Project Manager to steer the delivery of building services within a nuclear facility. As a Project Manager, you will be guiding a team of experienced and skilled professionals to meet timescales, monitoring project progress, commercially managing delivery partners, and delivering to cost, quality, and safety. You'll work in a dynamic environment offering opportunities to take on new challenges to learn and develop your skills as a Project Manager. You will be working within a matrix team to ensure project success thus enabling AWE's critical mission.

Whilst not to be considered a check list, candidates should be able to demonstrate some of the following:

• Demonstrable experience working within a similar highly regulated industry would be beneficial, ideally with an engineering background.
• A commercial aptitude with an understanding of NEC4 contract management.
• A Project Management qualification/membership or equivalent experience would be beneficial.
• Demonstrating excellent stakeholder management skills and natural ability to build and maintain customer relationships across all levels.
• Ability to be a proactive role model, guiding with direction and sharing expertise through coaching, mentoring, and developing others in all aspects of project management such as leadership, methodology, tools, and people skills.
• Dynamic and supportive approach to team management, encouraging and empowering team members to quickly adapt and respond to change and to adopt the company's vision.
• Experience to manage multiple and/or complex, high value, cross-functional projects.
• Skills to create and update all project documentation, including project management plans and supporting risks, assumptions, actions, issues & dependencies.
• Ability to effectively prioritise workload, resources, and deadlines within high pressure complex environments.
• Demonstrable application of methods to track project deliverables including implementing key performance indicators and producing project progress reports.
• Ability to lead and initiate risk techniques to manage complex project risks and interdependencies with efficient mitigation and contingency plans.
• Experience to manage projects through a lifecycle and the associated governance, including stage gate approvals.
• Ability to solve problems, with proven delivery of results through creative solutions and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Desire for continuous improvement through evaluation of both successes and failures.

You'll need to have the ability to work calmly and constructively in a priority changing environment and be able to manage your own workload. You will also have initiative, enthusiasm, a flexible approach, and ability to work to tight deadlines.

Some reasons we think you'll love it here:

AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include:

• 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
• Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
• Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.

The 'Working at AWE' page on our website is where you can find full details in the 'AWE Benefits Guide'.

This role is suitable for hybrid working on an informal, non-contractual basis. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.

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