Senior Project Delivery Lead

What if you could work with remarkable people on extraordinary things? What if the end result was something a little bit special? What if your role was mission critical?
For nearly 70 years, AWE has been at the forefront of nuclear weapons research and development. We have a critical mission: to provide the warheads for the UK’s ultimate deterrent - Trident. We also use our unique skills to provide wider UK government with counter-terrorism and nuclear threat reduction solutions.
It takes a special sort of person to work at AWE. What if that person was you?
AWE are looking for a Senior Manager, who has a Project Management or Control background to join our Senior Leadership team as the Service Lead within the enterprise portfolio management office (ePMO) in the P3M Function.
This role will report to the Director of Project Controls and Planning and will be accountable for the development and embedment of a P3M Delivery Framework and is responsible for the deployment and delivery across our Portfolio, Programme & Projects teams so that they are provided with the appropriate tools, processes and know how to enable consistent and effective delivery across the AWE Enterprise.
Location - Reading / Basingstoke area
Package - Competitive leadership salary depending on experience, performance related bonus, flexible benefit scheme
As part of our People Promise, AWE (one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK) has a range of benefits to suit you. These include:

• Time to recharge your batteries with 270 hours of annual leave (plus every other Friday off work)
• Consideration for flexible working arrangements so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development that include funding for the annual membership of a relevant professional body, access to mentors and training
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services
• A generous defined contribution Group Personal Pension (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your own contribution)
• Life Assurance
• Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring for your family
• A host of voluntary & core benefits to suit your health and wellbeing - more information available on our careers site

What will you be required to do?

• Lead an integrated team of process and subject matter experts to design, author and implement an AWE specific P3M Management and Control Framework to drive consistent Project Delivery based on industry best practise and tailored to the unique requirements of our mission
• Oversee the definition of requirements and strategy for supporting tools and systems and the interface with the IS Function and user community.Oversee the management of system administration, local application, training, and user assessments for the P3M toolset Sharing LFE of the framework
• Interface with all ePMO Service Leads ensure the P3M framework supports all the ePMO requirements
• Lead and chair a small pan enterprise Steering Group to provide peer review and support of the proposed framework as it is designed to drive for a right first-time implementation. Through the Steering Group provide c ontrol governance and configuration over the designed P3M Framework
• Lead and coordinate adoption of the framework, and its future variants , including the development and implementation familiarisation packages to ensure the requirements and specifics of the P3M framework are familiar and understood by senior managers, practitioners and new employees
• Review the effectiveness of the P3M framework on a regular basis.Undertake periodic reviews of best practice from industry, professional bodies, and our customer to assess and define improvements to the framework.Oversee and manage all changes under strict configuration control
• Lead and co-ordinate a small team of Project Management and control discipline leads to provide peer review or peer assist to our customers, executive team, programmes, and projects as agreed to support delivery and/or assurance reviews
• Identify and work with key internal and external stakeholders to the framework to identify and manage their requirements and ensure they are managed

Whilst not to be considered a check list, candidates should be able to demonstrate some of the following:

• Project Management practitioner qualification
• Excellent facilitation skills to foster engagement and support decision making
• Strong change management skills, through robust engagement with people, connecting with empathy, and excellent communication
• Resolution focused with the ability to be flexible and creative in approach
• Ability to create a team environment that is fast-paced and service oriented
• Experience of successfully introducing and piloting new processes in an operational environment
• Experience in a senior leadership position in a P3M capacity
• Experience in leading team performance, effectively assigning and organising workloads appropriately to manage delivery
• Empowering teams to take ownership and use their judgement to provide timely personalised responses in a way that appropriately balance the needs of our stakeholder
• Creating a positive collaborative and diverse working environment where you can easily identify and grow talent whilst increasing the quality and speed of performance
• Knowledge of the regulatory bodies that deal with AWE and the relevant processes that need to be adhered to

Closing date - 21/02/24
All candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role.
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