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We believe that mission success does not start with the mission itself. It begins with our people.
Draken also believes in fair reward and recognition for our employees. As such, we offer competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including up to 12% matching pension contributions, bonus incentives, discounted PMI, electric car scheme, tech vouchers, wellbeing programmes and much more.
The Role
We are currently recruiting for a Programme Manager to manage and deliver a collection of projects and changes as part of a large customer facing Operational Readiness Training programme. Your role is to support the Programme Director through ensuring your programme and its projects progress as per agreed plans and actions, facilitated by achieving the buy-in and contribution of expertise from across the Business.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in an Operational Readiness Training to UK Armed Forces and is based at our Bournemouth site. The role requires close working with the Programme Director and Senior Stakeholders to continuously develop the technology roadmap. A demonstrable track record in building customer relationships that deliver tangible business value is required. The successful candidate is expected to have at least five years’ experience of working in a Project environment, preferably in defence, electronics, telecommunications networks or aviation.
The successful candidate can expect to work on areas such as:
• Electronic Warfare Systems
• Communication Systems and Connectivity
• Aircraft Platform System
• Business Improvement
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain the programme plan and track the status of programme and project deliverables and milestones through engagement with Project Managers and subject matter experts.
- Work with business areas to produce the schedule, risk register and full suite of programme documentation to ensure a successful delivery.
- Take ownership of day-to-day priorities and delivery, identify and manage actions to address shortcomings with stakeholders, and escalate issues if necessary.
- Ensure conflicting priorities, risks and issues are managed proactively.
- Promote engagement across all stakeholders through excellent communication and promoting collaboration.
- Be able to proactively manage barriers to progress, working with teams to identify options and solutions, and able to determine when to escalate to the Programme Director.
- Monitor status of projects and programme progress, co-ordinate and produce project and programme reporting as required by the Programme Director.
Experience / skills / qualifications
- Provision of programme management with the aim of delivering on time and to a high standard.
- Effectiveness of support to the Programme Director
- Ability to understand, plan and manage near and medium term priorities.
- Generation and delivery of all required project and programme metrics/reports to the standard required and in a timely fashion.
- Proactive identification and ownership of problems and issues.
- Proactive identification and ownership of opportunities.
- Use version control and controlled distribution of documents.
- Respond promptly to critical events and requests for change, assessing potential impact on scope and objectives.
- Ensure the application of a change control process.
- Proficient in MS Project, Project Web App.
- Proficient across suite of Microsoft 365 applications.
- Knowledge or experience in aircraft operations, aircraft engineering and/or systems engineering lifecycles would be beneficial
Our employee values
Draken is committed to eliminating unlawful and unfair discrimination and we celebrate the differences that a diverse workforce brings. A range of perspective and talent supports our values and drives our success, with a mix of voices generating better discussions, business decisions and outcomes for all.
At all our sites internationally, every member of the Draken Europe team is accountable to ensure that we are all treated fairly and with respect.
We are also an Armed Forces friendly organisation, and as part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant, welcome applications from veterans and services spouses and partners who met the criteria in our job specifications.
In line with our Disability Confident Commitments, we provide reasonable adjustments to facilitate our interview process, please liaise with us if any reasonable adjustments are required.