Overview
Head of Project Management Office
Based across our three locations (Bristol, Barnstaple, Beckington) with a mix of office and home-based working
Up to £85k depending on experience and full benefits
We are SEA
Engineered to protect. We protect what matters – our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world.
Join us.
As Head of Project Management Office you will lead the PM professional discipline, covering the people, processes, and tools used to deliver project management capability within SEA, contributing to company objectives through effective project delivery.
Your work will support SEA’s effective & efficient project definition, delivery, execution, and controls; knowledge and learning, reporting, data integrity; resource planning & allocation and project governance.
This is a great opportunity to take on a critical role during a period of exciting growth for SEA, and drive best practice and learning across the business to support our strategic goals.
The Project Management Office will support:
1. Project Governance
Ensuring a structured approach to govern the projects, that involves various stakeholders, team members, project managers, project sponsors, investors, clients, etc. These stakeholders have well-defined roles, responsibilities, and decision-making capacities.
2. Plan and Schedule Resource Efficiency
Ensuring enterprise resources are utilized in the most efficient manner and the right resources are allocated to the right project at the right time.
3. Project reporting
Centralised project information, defining and delivering reports to the right stakeholders and at the right time, so that people can make informed and timely decisions for the success of the project:
4. Project Learning and Knowledge
What we offer
Your work, your contribution, deserves to be recognised and rewarded. Have a look at the benefits we offer:
Work life balance:
- Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
- 25 days’ annual leave, plus buy and sell
- Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual
- Half day Fridays
- Reservist in the armed forces receive special paid leave
Family & wellbeing:
- Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program
- All Staff Bonus
- Group Pension Plan of up to 7% employer contribution
- Cycle to work scheme
- Wellbeing centre
- Sports & Social activities
- Employee Discounts portal – online and instore discounts, travel savings etc
- Life assurance policy
- Publication and recruitment bonus rewards
- Development opportunities, including LinkedIn learning
Facilities & resources:
- Electric vehicle charging points at all sites
- Private seated lunch areas
- Onsite bistro (Barnstaple office) and free hot and cold beverages
- Onsite showers and toiletries provision
- Free onsite parking
The skills you need
As Head of Project Management Office, you’ll be a proven and seasoned project management practitioner with significant experience at a functional level. You’ll bring experience of setting up project management offices, defining processes, procedures and standards, and an ability to chart a course for our discipline through a busy period of growth. You’ll be:
- Competent in building networks with applicable stakeholders and staff at all levels and departments across the business
- Knowledgeable and experienced in all phases of projects from inception, planning and organisation, monitoring & control and closure.
- An expert in risk and opportunity management, project governance and reporting
- Experienced in the definition, improvement, tailoring and training of Organisational Project Management Processes
- Qualified or working toward qualifications with the APM
- Experience of working in a defence of systems engineering context is ideal but not essential
Join us and be part of something smaller – with 300 people in the UK and Canada – doing something bigger: protecting what matters.
If you would like to know more, please give our Talent Acquisition Manager Dave a call on 01373 852197.
