Project Manager

As a Project Manager at SNC MS UK, you will be responsible for leading multidisciplinary projects from initiation through to delivery, ensuring outcomes are achieved safely, effectively, on time, and within budget.

Working closely with engineering teams, customers, suppliers, and senior stakeholders, you will manage project planning, governance, commercial oversight, risk management, and delivery activities across a range of mission-critical programmes.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role within a fast-paced and innovative defence environment, supporting projects that deliver real operational impact to UK Defence and Government customers.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of projects across the full project lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, budgets, and resource forecasts.
• Manage project governance activities, ensuring effective control of scope, risks, issues, actions, dependencies, and change.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.
• Lead multidisciplinary project teams, fostering collaboration, accountability, and high performance.
• Monitor project performance against agreed milestones, deliverables, financial targets, and contractual requirements.
• Identify and manage project risks and implement effective mitigation strategies.
• Ensure projects comply with applicable regulatory, security, quality, and customer requirements.
• Support commercial and financial management activities, including forecasting, reporting, and cost control.
• Provide clear and accurate project reporting to senior leadership and key stakeholders.
• Support bid, proposal, and business development activities where required.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of project delivery processes, governance, and best practice.

Person specification

Qualifications & experience

• Proven experience in a Project Manager role within defence, aerospace, engineering, technology, or other highly regulated environments.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience managing complex projects involving multidisciplinary teams and multiple stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience delivering projects across the full lifecycle, from initiation through to delivery and closure.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies including Agile and Waterfall.
• Experience managing project budgets, schedules, risks, and resources.
• Experience working within customer-facing delivery environments.
• Professional project management qualification such as APM PMQ, PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMP, or equivalent is desirable.
• Experience within Defence or secure environments would be highly advantageous.

Skills & abilities

• Strong leadership and stakeholder management capability.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage at all organisational levels.
• Strong commercial awareness and financial management capability.
• Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities.
• Analytical and solution-focused approach to problem solving.
• Strong decision-making capability within fast-paced and evolving environments.
• Collaborative and proactive mindset with a focus on delivery excellence.
• High attention to detail and commitment to quality.

Additional information

Excellent benefits package -  Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme, Holiday entitlement, 28 per year plus public holidays, Company Sick Pay Scheme, Pension Scheme through Scottish Widows, EAP Scheme via TELUS, Private Medical Scheme with BUPA, Dental cover, Life Assurance, Income Protection, Bike to Work scheme through Cycle scheme.

Work schedule: Full-time role based in St Athan with occasional travel to business and customer sites, as well as the United States. 

Professional development: SNC MS UK provides ample opportunities for training and development, working on cutting-edge technologies and projects. 

Support for Armed Forces: SNC MS UK is a proud Armed Forces Covenant member and offers 15 days paid leave for reservists and 5 days paid leave for Cadet Forces Adult Volunteers. 

Please be aware that many roles at SNC MS UK are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.  

Additional information

SNC MS UK is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals. 

If you have an accessibility need, disability, condition or need any additional support that means you might require changes to the application or recruitment process (for example, you might need to submit your application in a different format), please get in touch with our Talent Team at recruitment@snc-ms.uk. We are here to assist and accommodate your needs. 

Closing date: 12 Jun 26

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. 
 
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