Project Manager

Boeing ,
Bristol, Bristol

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Job Description

Project Manager Company: BDUKL - United Kingdom Job ID: 00000198921 Date Posted: 2020-06-15-07:00 Location: GBR - Bristol, UK, GBR - Fleet, UK Job Description Summary: Develops project or operational plans aligned to department's objectives. Implements plans to ensure business, technical and customer requirements are achieved. Assigns authority and responsibilities to employees to execute the plan. Reviews plan's execution, makes appropriate adjustments and resolves issues. Monitors appropriate metrics to ensure performance to plan. Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial airplanes and defense, space and security systems. We are engineers and technicians. Skilled scientists and thinkers. Bold innovators and dreamers. Join us, and you can build something better for yourself, for our customers and for the world. Relocation: No relocation available Export Control Requirement: Safety Sensitive: This is not a safety sensitive position Contingent Upon Award Program The position is contingent upon program award Job Description Qualifications: At Boeing, we are all innovators on a mission to connect, protect, explore and inspire. From the seabed to outer space, you'll learn and grow, contributing to work that shapes the world. Find your future with us. Boeing Defence UK (BDUK) is a subsidiary of the Boeing Company and currently employs over 1,200 people in the UK. BDUK is currently responsible for delivering several exciting contracts to our UK defence customers including E-7 AEW&C, P-8A Maritime Patrol Aircraft, C4ISR Services, Through-Life Support for the Chinook & Apache Fleets, Logistic Information Services and Training Services. BDUK's Autonomous Systems Division requires a UK based Project Manager to lead the successful execution of a Royal Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office autonomous systems project. The ideal candidate will already be familiar with a wide range of specialized process tools, and materials, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, SharePoint and Boeing or industry recognised systems to manage risks, issues & opportunities, contracts, change processing and estimating. Responsibilities * Manage all assigned resources including people, facilities, budgets and schedules to meet performance requirements and commitments. * Lead proposal development in support of additional work scope and manage pre-award performance to budget. * Demonstrate proficiency in all project management areas in accordance with accepted project management standards in the industry * Identify key stakeholder, project specific objectives and requirements including customer and supplier dependencies. * Develop solutions to complex problems that require ingenuity and innovation. * Facilitate or lead others in facilitating negotiations involving major project parameters such as deliverable definition and performance objectives (e.g., cost, schedule, quality). * Develop project plans and define deliverables that meet identified requirements, and Customer expectations. * Identify and manage project risks, issues and opportunities. * * Report project status and performance metrics to program leadership team and Customer. * Work with the customer to proactively identify additional opportunities, and ways to improve levels of service. * Ensure project team member responsibilities, accountability and authority are clearly documented and understood. Ensure assigned individuals are executing the identified and assigned tasks and provide appropriate tracking and reporting per plan. Provide input of team member performance to management, where appropriate. * Establish and maintain communications and relationships with project and functional organisation including senior staff and line management and with Customer counterparts. * Implement and hold project team responsible for health & safety culture. * Promote a 'Help Needed' culture where appropriately requesting help is encouraged and those providing help are held accountable. * Apply industry standards and any available data source for best practices, lessons learned, historical and forecast data to perform trend, earned value and variance analyses to create a baseline project plan. General Competencies * Project Management - thorough knowledge and proficiency in all project management areas in accordance with Defence Industry project management standards. * Leadership - complete ability to lead and direct the activities and resources within and across * Communication - excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to listen, assimilate, evaluate and summarise. Sound ability to communicate with the customer at all levels. * Commercial awareness and ability to work within and remain compliant with Boeing's Commercial process. * Project Lifecycle knowledge - sound knowledge of the Project Lifecycle from requirements definition, proposal preparation and negotiation and project implementation through to completi