Project Manager

Date Posted:

2025-02-12

Country:

United Kingdom

Location:

GBR29: Gloucester, 18b Ley Court, Barnwood Industrial Estate, Barnwood, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL4 3RT

Position Role Type:

Unspecified

Job Tile -Cyber Security Project Manager 

Location-Gloucester 

Duration-Permanent  

Hours-37  

Raytheon UK  

At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.  

 

Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do. Together, we are not just advancing technology; we're building a community committed to safeguarding a safer and more connected world. 

 

Providing DevSecOps at scale, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, cyber and geospatial intelligence capabilities to support the defence, intelligence and cyber sectors. Collaborating with customers and suppliers to deliver secure, mission critical systems using the latest technologies and innovations. 

 

About the role:  

Raytheon UK is looking for a dynamic and high performing Project Manager to work within Raytheon’s Cyber Centre. The work location will primarily be based in Gloucester office with occasional travel to the other Raytheon site and/or customer sites. 

 

As a Project Manager you will be responsible for a variety of concurrent project deliveries and also have responsibilities for administering an effective PMO function. The role embodies the driving force of every project, assuring successful execution, identifying and managing to resolution risks and issues through the use of programmatic controls and techniques. 

 

The successful candidate will be charged with the successful initiation, execution and completion of projects in line with time, quality and cost/profit targets. You will also represent Raytheon to the customer, its suppliers and management. Professionalism and credibility will therefore be key. 

 

Main Duties: 

The successful candidate will be required to: 

• Forge strong relationships with external stakeholders whilst establishing trust and internal relationships to ensure that goals and objectives are clearly communicated, understood and executed. 

• Ensure that effective project management practices in accordance with Raytheon UK process is applied and maintained. 

• Establish and maintain a governance structure to ensure coordination of work requests including estimations, work proposals, forecasting and internal reporting. As well as reporting progress routinely and by exception into the Raytheon account, including both scheduled and ad-hoc management briefings. 

• Effective communication of project status and delivery to respective stakeholders utilising metrics and scheduling tools where necessary. In addition, produce Schedule performance metrics including Schedule variance, Critical Path Analysis and Schedule performance analysis to support the PMO function. 

• Identification of project risk, issues and dependencies, seeking resolution before escalation. 

• Supporting the Management of the programme’s PMO function helping seek continuous improvements in measuring and reporting delivery progress. 

• Interface with the Finance Team to establish and monitor budget authorisations, by ensuring the availability of supporting data enabling collation and analysis of relevant data such as schedule derived ETCs and factored risk cost exposure. 

• Build trust and confidence within the team to a level where they will share problems without fear of blame, retribution or being judged whilst also protecting them from outside interruptions and distractions. 

• Work with Business Development, Engineering, Commercial and Programme Leads to assess the Task Orders and develop a technical solution to the Customer’s requirements and develop a Customer bid proposal. 

 

Essential: 

• Strong organisational, leadership, communication and interpersonal skills being a team motivator capable of building strong relationships with peers, customers and suppliers at all levels. 

• Experienced in the principles of Project/Task based Management, Risk Management, MS Project, Programme Performance Reviews and Cost Account Management. 

• Experience of managing multiple projects and programmes in a controlled environment, making best use of recognised methods, e.g. PRINCE2 

• Sound knowledge of PMO disciplines and techniques. 

• Able to lead and support problem solving of complex issues across functional boundaries, to summarise and identify key concerns and follow through with the development and execution of corrective action plans to resolve issues. 

• Sound judgement skills, understanding when to own and brief and when to escalate. 

• Able to rapidly assimilate information, culture and process 

 

Desirable: 

• Computer Science, Engineering or Business Degree or equivalent qualification. 

• Experience working within the Cyber and Intelligence Community. 

• Experience working within a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment. 

• Bid and Proposal Management. 

• Knowledge of cost Estimating. 

• Member of a relevant Engineering or Project Management Professional institution. 

• Able to guide, and provide professional planning assistance to all levels of the Team. 

• Understanding of applicable government information assurance policies and controls and how to comply with these. 

 

 Benefits and Work Culture  

• Competitive salaries. 

• 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr) 

• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution) 

• Company bonus scheme (discretionary) 

• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension. 

• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others. 

• Enhanced sick pay. 

• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave. 

• Car / Car allowance (dependant on grade/ role) 

• Private Medical Insurance (dependant on grade) 

 

Work Culture 

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements. 

• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early! 

• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role. 

• A grownup flexible working culture that is output, not time spent at desk, focussed. More formal flexible working arrangements can also be requested and assessed subject to the role. Please enquire or highlight any request to our Talent Acquisition team to explore the flexible working possibilities. 

• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year. 

 

RTX  

Raytheon UK is a landed company and part of the wider RTX organisation. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, USA, but with over 180,000 employees globally across every continent, RTX provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide and comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon.  

  

Supporting over 35,000 jobs across 13 UK sites, RTX is helping to drive prosperity. Each year our work contributes over £2.7bn to the UK economy and offers a wealth of opportunities to 4,000 suppliers across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We’re investing in all corners of the country, supporting 29,040 jobs in England, 3,040 in Northern Ireland, 1,900 in Scotland and 1,600 in Wales. 

 

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