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3–4 days/week at home

Fully flexible hours

Job Description

Senior Project Professional

About the role

As a Senior Project Professional in BMT you will be able to enjoy working in a varied project environment as you help to define, lead and manage projects where key outcomes are delivered successfully for our Clients within contractual service-based relationships. You will be responsible for your contribution to a critical element of BMT’s ability to continually deliver insight, innovation and results across multiple domains.

A Senior Project Professional in BMT is required to undertake a range of tasks and duties related to

· In the Project Manager role, tasked with the identification, definition, delivery and closure of complex projects or groups of standard or complex projects, and project-related activities throughout the bid and project delivery lifecycles.

· Leadership of projects or groups of projects in a commercially focused, contract-based environment and delivering strong financial focus, and the ability to manage and report commercial and financial performance.

· Significant development and support of the Project Management Function and best practice within BMT (and in associated professional bodies).

· Mentoring or coaching of other staff undertaking project delivery tasks.

· The line management of other Project Professional colleagues within the Function.

BMT’s projects are spread across our various sites in the UK, with emphasis at the present time on our facilities across Bath, Bristol, Weymouth, Fareham, Plymouth, Southampton and London, but we operate flexibly according to the nature of the project and the relationship with the Client. We therefore typically operate from these base locations, but can include other BMT offices (see www.bmt.org for locations), home-working or working at Client sites – which may include overseas locations. Travel and subsistence to and from the base location to Client sites or other BMT offices will be provided in line with BMT’s policy.

We can work on a full or part time basis according to the roles that the Senior Project Professional fulfils, although the nature of the Project Manager role often drives regular engagement with project teams on a daily basis. But we want the best people for our roles, so we welcome any applications that will help us to continue to deliver success.

About you

We are looking for people who are enthusiastic and as passionate as we are about delivering projects successfully, and who want to contribute to growing a robust project management community and capability not only within the UK, but across BMT global operations.

You will be familiar with delivering projects in an engineering service environment which is built upon defining and managing contractual relationships and with a strong commercial and financial performance perspective. This also includes experience in constructing the project definition elements of bids and their relationship to subsequent project delivery, as well as engaging with key stakeholders both inside and outside our business. We want to hear from people who are able to recognise, understand and undertake project management duties across a spectrum of predictive (plan-based) to adaptive (iterative) approaches. Whether you are familiar with the delivery of products or systems, engineering services, new capabilities, software applications, IT systems, cyber services, environmental systems, or business transformations, we would love to hear from you.

To provide operational flexibility a Senior Project Professional will be expected to operate across the different delivery domains within BMT – which could give rise to some varied challenges for you - but ideally will have some knowledge and experience in one or more specific domains where the nature of the project demands it for maximum effectiveness. More information on the range of BMT services is available at www.bmt.org . At the moment our preference is for those with maritime vessel, maritime systems, cyber service delivery or technical documentation domain knowledge - but we thrive on diverse backgrounds and experiences and learning from each other, so just a desire to work in these areas is welcomed.

You will be able to undertake project definition and delivery responsibilities equivalent to SFIA8 Responsibilities Level 4 (Enable) , although the nature of the client relationships requires an ability to “Influence” at Level 5. The expectation is that in the Project Manager role your competency in project management skills should be at or equivalent to SFIA8 Project Management (PRMG) Skill Level 5 .

A Senior Project Professional in BMT is expected to hold, or be able to achieve swiftly, one or more of the following Project Management-related qualifications (or their equivalent):

· APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ)

· PMI Project Management Professional (PMP®)

· Agile Business Consortium/APMG AgilePM Practitioner

· Axelos PRINCE2® Practitioner, MSP®, ITIL©, M_o_R© or MoV© Practitioner

· Praxis Framework™ Practitioner

But we love to develop our people, so if these are not held right now, we will help you to achieve a recognised reflection of your capabilities. We recognise that project management careers develop through a myriad of different journeys, but a degree-level qualification in a project management- or engineering-related discipline would be desirable. You will be self-motivated with a proactive approach to continual professional development. We value professional qualifications and membership or fellowship of appropriate bodies such as the APM or PMI and we can provide support, training and tailored experience in order for you to achieve these, if not already held, as well as paying for membership of one professional body.

Due to the nature of the work, this position will require full UK Security Clearance (SC) and you should have resided in the UK for more than 5 years. No applications will be considered if you are not in a position to either attain or transfer the security clearance.

About BMT

BMT is a maritime-orientated high-end design house and technical consulting firm driven by a passion for solving complex, real-world problems. We work across multiple fields in maritime design & consultancy, analysing and delivering environmental & climate solutions, monitoring and sustaining client assets, and directly supporting defence, security and government clients in their capability delivery and transformation challenges. To find out more about BMT see www.bmt.org .

BMT is open and committed to discussing flexible working. We believe that everyone performs at their best when they have the flexibility to make working for BMT work best for them.

BMT hires talented people and welcomes applications from everyone. Currently we are aware that Black, Asian, Minority ethnic, female, and non-binary candidates are particularly underrepresented in our industry and as we know that diversity, equity, and inclusion is critical to achieving our purpose as a business, we very much look forward to hearing from these groups too. Our purpose is to navigate the most important and impactful engineering challenges of our time (to find out more www.bmt.org/work-with-us/diversity-and-inclusion ). Our passion and goals are to build more diverse teams and to create an environment where employees are engaged, thriving, and feel a sense of belonging.

Benefits

At BMT, our employee benefits are designed to ensure you have the resources you need to thrive.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a wide range of benefits in areas including health, family, finance, pension, and personal development (including membership fees of one professional body). We operate a flexible environment that is typically able to adjust to personal circumstances.

Don’t hesitate to ask more about our benefits during the hiring process.

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Does this sound like you? If so, please submit your application as soon as possible. We look forward to learning more about you.

Please note that we will be running these positions periodically through 2023 but recruiting and onboarding in tranches, so we are happy to discuss flexibility in future starting dates.

A message to recruitment agencies: We receive applications exclusively via our ATS. Please note that we do not accept CVs submitted via email to the HR department or staff 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 budget - £250 per annum
Location
87%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours
84%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
78%
Employees are largely happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
67%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
74%
Employees feel that most people work flexibly
Autonomy
83%
Employees feel they have complete autonomy over getting their work done

Working at BMT

Company employees

1000

Gender diversity (male:female)

66% Male, 28% Female

Office locations

Teddington, Bath, Southampton, Fareham, Bristol, Plymouth, Weymouth, Leeds, Aberdeen, Glasgow

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