Senior Project Manager

Job Description for Senior Project Manager:

NNL is where your project management helps deliver our purpose. As part of our Project Management Authority, you’ll play a critical role in managing projects that deliver nuclear science to benefit society. Your project management skills and attention to detail will enable industry-leading scientists, engineers and analysts to work together to deliver unique projects using cutting edge technology. It’s a challenging role but it’s an opportunity to grow, adapt and develop new skills in a fast-moving area.

Leadership of large scale complex projects.

The role is based in West Cumbria.

Main Responsibilities for Senior Project Manager:

• Leadership of large projects.
• Building and managing schedules, estimates, risk registers for our multiple frameworks.
• Liaising with key customers to ensure compliance against funded scope.
• Reporting to the NDA CWL with progress and raising issues early.
• General Project Management duties and development opportunities.

Essential Criteria for Senior Project Manager:

• Demonstrable nuclear industry experience.
• Demonstrable project management experience.
• Degree qualified desirable but not essential, mixture of experience acceptable.
• APM qualified.
• Ability to obtain SC level security clearance (this includes but is not limited to identity, employment, financial and criminal record checks plus 5 years’ worth of UK residency).

NNL is an incredible place to work A place where people do things that have never been done before A place where people push boundaries to further themselves, the business, and society as a whole.

This is a place where personal and professional opportunities are limitless. If you want to change the world, if you want to tackle climate change, if you want to help advance medical science, if you want to help put things in space, if you want to answer the big questions, if you want to work with extraordinary materials, if you want to meet great people, learn new skills, challenge yourself, work flexibly, and build a long successful career with the power to make a real impact… you can do it all here.

NNL has a vision for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity (ED&I) where NNL aims to be an inclusive workplace that attracts diverse talent through transparent and equal policies and procedures. We want you and the diverse mix of people that we employ, customers that we service, and stakeholders that we influence to feel valued. We encourage a workplace culture where everyone can thrive with a sense of belonging.

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National Nuclear Laboratory