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BMT • AUS - Remote / Home

Head of PMO

Employment type:  Full time
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top 3 scores:
93%

Location

90%

Hours

87%

Autonomy

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Job Description

Work for a maritime-orientated high-end design house and technical consulting firm driven by a passion for solving complex, real-world problems.

About Us:

We deliver design, engineering and consulting excellence in a world of ever-increasing change: growing compliance, new global competitors, the pressure to do more with less, ever-faster innovation cycles and less time to exploit market positions or new technologies.

Our purpose is to help navigate some of the most important and impactful engineering challenges of our time, creating an environment where people with outstanding technical knowledge strive to deliver a safer, more efficient, more effective, and sustainable future.

With around 1,400+ professionals located in 28 offices in the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe, we draw upon a wide range of experience and expertise to provide high-quality, high-value products and capabilities.

We are wholly owned by our people. Our Employee Benefit Trust status guarantees our independence, giving our people the freedom to think without limits and create ground-breaking solutions. ownership for employees.

Learn more about your next company - (Welcome to BMT)

We are currently seeking someone to head up our PMO and Project Controls team who will be responsible for providing project delivery support to Programme teams and provide leadership and guidance to the regional PMO team members, enables consistent ways of working across programmes and projects in their region and works to elevate Project Management professionalism and effective project delivery.

In this role you will:

  • Be a member of the Regional Leadership Team
  • Assess current PMO capability and set up project delivery frameworks to improve productivity and performance
  • Work collaboratively with the Senior Management Team
  • Contribute to the production of strategy, innovation and sustainability business objectives
  • Ensure the optimum application of the region’s resources to bids, projects, customer needs and staff development
  • Ensure the region operates to and maintains the highest professional technical and project management standards
  • Manage project risks associated with regional project delivery and the regional project portfolio
  • Embed PMO frameworks to manage processes like; work at risk, contract change, change resolution, project contingency, project purchasing, project profitability and project cash
  • Build a culture within the regional PMO function that model's effective behavior, celebrates success and drives continuous improvement

Relevant Education, Experience, and Skills:

  • Certification with a professional Project Management body
  • Demonstrated strong leadership and interpersonal skills
  • Strong project delivery technical skills and problem-solving skills
  • Developmental and innovation mindset
  • Demonstrated continuous improvement capability

Our Benefits -

Our employee benefits are designed to ensure you have the resources you need to thrive. We value your contribution by offering the following benefits –

  • Flexible work arrangements, including work from home
  • Competitive salary offering
  • A performance-related bonus scheme based on personal, and company performance.
  • Learning and Development opportunities to support you in achieving your business and personal objectives and releasing your full potential

Where possible, our benefits are globally harmonised to ensure equality and consistency across our collaborative teams; we also tailor benefits to ensure they remain competitive with the local geographies in which we operate.

Notice to Recruitment Agency & Related Services -

Please note BMT receive job applications exclusively via our ATS system only. BMT do not warrant or agree to any unsolicited CVs submitted via any contact method including physical hard copies left with any employee at BMT or within our operational teams. We will not progress CVs shared on a speculative basis by email, and you accept our right to pursue such candidates with no obligation to third-party terms and conditions or liability to a fee.

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to compressed hours
Enhanced maternity leave – After 1 years service, enhanced maternity to max 18 weeks
26 days annual leave + bank holidays
Wellbeing allowance – £300

We asked employees of BMT what it's like to work there, and this is what they told us.

Location
93%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours
90%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
84%
Employees are very happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
77%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
82%
Employees feel that flexible working is part of the culture
Autonomy
87%
Employees feel they have complete autonomy over getting their work done

Additional employee ratings
(these do not contribute to the FlexScore®)

Diversity
66%
Employees feel that the diversity is good and there are continued efforts to improve it
Inclusion
74%
Employees feel that the culture supports equity and inclusivity well
Culture
79%
Employees enjoy the working environment
Mission
69%
Employees feel quite excited about the company mission
Salary
65%
Employees feel that their salary is good and matches the value they bring

Working at BMT

Company employees

1000

Gender diversity (male:female:non-binary)

66:28:6

Office locations

Teddington, Bath, Southampton, Fareham, Bristol, Plymouth, Weymouth, Leeds, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Newcastle, Bangalow, Houston, Ottawa, Victoria, Halifax, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Singapore, Antwerp

Hiring Countries

Australia

Canada

Netherlands

Singapore

United Kingdom

United States

Awards & Achievements

Most flexible companies

Most flexible companies

Flexa100 2024
Professional Services

Professional Services

Industry awards 2023

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