Project Manager Team Leader

Company Description

By 2050, the planet could be using twice as much electricity compared to today. Are you interested in contributing and helping to shape the future of the world’s energy? If so, read on.

Fusion, the process that powers the Sun and Stars, is one of the most promising options for generating the cleaner, carbon-free energy that our world badly needs.

UKAEA leads the way in realizing fusion energy, partnering with industry and research for groundbreaking advancements. Our goal is to bring fusion electricity to the grid, supported by tomorrow's power stations. In pursuit of our mission, UKAEA embraces core values: Innovative, Committed, Trusted, and Collaborative.

As an employee of UKAEA you will benefit from:

• Outstanding defined benefit pension scheme, details of which can be found at the end of this advert.
• Corporate bonus scheme up to 7% and a Relocation allowance (if eligible).
• Flexible working options including family friendly policies and the right to request flexible working from the start of your employment. 
• Employee Assistance Programme and trained Mental Health First Aiders, 
• Generous annual leave allowance starting with 25 days, plus 3 days Christmas closure and 2.5 privilege days, in addition to UK bank holidays
• Wide range of career development opportunities
• A vibrant culture committed to equality and being fully inclusive
• What to expect in our recruitment process:
• For a step-by-step overview of how we hire from application to offer please see our Recruitment Process page: careers.ukaea.uk/join-us/recruitment-process

Job Description

The salary for this role is £56,596 (inclusive of a Specialist Allowance). Onsite working is expected for 3 days each week, however, we actively support requests for flexible working. 

This role is based at the following site: Culham, Oxfordshire

This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data. 

The Role

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Project Manager Team Leader, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring that projects are delivered to budget, schedule and quality standards, procedures are followed, and that all key project outcomes are met. This role may lead and manage medium (<£10M) projects with varying risk and complexity, they may also provide co-ordination and support to one or more larger projects. The role includes leading a team of technical coordinators / project managers.

Key Accountabilities

The Project Manager Team Leader is accountable to the Project Delivery Group Leader for executing projects to a high standard according to established project and technical management processes, leading to delivered solutions of an engineering integrity commensurate with nuclear operations.

The main responsibilities of the role are:

• Ensure that staff safety, health and welfare are maintained and adhered to in accordance with company policies and procedures.
• Actively promote UKAEA’s values, championing a culture of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
• Effective and timely management of staff, including, but not limited to: setting resource allocation and recruitment requirements, knowledge transfer, welfare, setting measurable objectives and performance management, absence management, professional development, and coaching.
• Ensure suitably qualified and experienced staff are in place to meet both current and future organisational needs as per UKAEA standards, ensuring management systems and relevant regulations are appropriate and adhered to.
• Providing management of project(s) of budgets of up to circa £10M
• Maintaining oversight of projects, particularly estimate collation, planning, cost forecast and monitoring, overall execution strategy delivery.
• The effective deployment of project resources, through clear definition of roles and responsibilities, working methods and the sequencing of tasks
• To evaluate and present decisions that secure the benefits the project is tasked to deliver
• Resolving obstacles to strategy delivery and leading the identification and employment of creative solutions to overcoming them
• Work with the Project Sponsor to develop a Project Management Plan that defines how the project will be delivered
• Overseeing effective communication within the project and assist the sponsor through interactions with stakeholders (both internal and external), defining the project milestones and deliverables.
• Managing project document development for a project lifecycle in compliance with the UKAEA's Quality Assurance requirements.
• Reporting of progress against milestones, changes, exceptions, budgets and other key performance indicators.
• Ensuring that the project Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality (SHEQ) culture and working practices are in alignment with the UKAEA requirements.
• Liaising with other Groups and Departments to ensure effective co-ordination and collaboration across interfaces and competing demands.
• Work in accordance with UKAEA policy and undertake any other reasonable tasks or duties requested by your manager.

Qualifications

Essential:

• Chartered status in relevant STEM discipline
• Track record of delivering complex engineering projects to budget, time and cost
• Passion for ensuring good project management practices and culture
• A Pro-active approach to safety, with good appreciation of UK compliance requirements in design
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to make sound economic decisions that maximise project value
• Good background knowledge and understanding of fusion science and/or technology and engineering
• Excellent communication, influencing, and collaboration skills
• Experience line managing and coaching individuals.
• Experience in building, mentoring and leading teams.

Typical Professional Qualifications Include:

• APM Project Management Qualification
• APM Practitioner Qualification
• Prince 2 Practitioner
• Agile Project Management Practitioner

Additional Information

A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/

UKAEA's mission is clean energy for all, and we welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission.  We are under-represented from some groups and so want to encourage applications in particular from women in STEM, people from Black British Caribbean and African backgrounds and from Pakistani and Bangladeshi British backgrounds. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) and Wellbeing and our EDI Networks actively promote Inclusion and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.

UK Atomic Energy Authority is committed to being accessible. Please email talent@ukaea.uk if you have any questions or require help or adjustments to compete on a fair basis, for example, changes to the way we interview or share information.  

Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.