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Junior Project Manager

🏢 Expleo 📍 Preston, North West England, England 💼 Company - Private
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£43,187 - £51,665
£3,599 - £4,305 / mo
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Location Base
Preston, North West England, England
Tier-1 UK Economic Zone
Est. Take-Home Pay
68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)
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Transatlantic Parity
1.0 GBP ≈ $1.28 USD Living Standard
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Position Overview & Specifications

Overview:
This capability works across the systems engineering vee cycle, utilising a range of Agile and Lean technologies to drive operational delivery and technical assurance for our clients. Whether we’re researching the potential of future technologies, developing high integrity software, undertaking FPGA design or consulting on System Safety integration, our proven capability assures some of the UK's most unique and challenging solution and infrastructure projects.
We are currently recruiting a Junior Project Manager to support project management activity within the Program Management Project team on a variety of tasks, including the development and maintenance of contractor SOWs, proposal generation and maintenance of various project trackers such as action logs, level 1 plans and Risk and Opportunity logs. The successful candidate(s) will play a key role in delivering a high-quality service to our client and will be expected to be proactive and self-motivated in delivering the targeted outputs to support the product.

We are an ambitious team with a 5-year strategy based upon:
  • Putting Clients and the customer first. We offer clients honest, open and agnostic advice.
  • Focusing on project outcomes and delivery. We set a plan and achieve it.
  • Solving Project Complexity. We blend the right people, right experience with the right tools to deliver successful outcomes.
  • Integrating the bigger picture.We understand the role of technology and benefits of successful integration for our clients and within society.
Start date: As soon as possible
Responsibilities:
  • Supporting multiple project managers
  • Providing project office administration support on commercial engagements. Works on small low risk and low complexity projects.
  • Generation of Low Complexity Project Proposals,
  • Generation of Contractor SOWs
  • Supporting the project management team in understanding the client agenda and issues.
  • Reporting information, identifying trends and exceptions. Solicits guidance to define criteria and to assign values of importance and urgency.
  • Builds reporting/status updates, agenda stakeholder and owner meetings, facilitates other meetings, monitors and drives overall project plan. Tracks risks, assumptions, issues, decisions and follows up.
  • Maintaining project documents and other information in the project repository ensuring easy access and usability by the project team.
  • Co-ordinating project resource changes, including space, equipment, and update of project documentation (team lists, organisation charts, etc.).
  • Planning and manages own time and work, contributing to overall on-time and on-budget project goals.
  • Maintaining the status of project responsibilities and work across teams to achieve group goals. Documents meeting notes and activities.
Skills:
  • Strong project management skills to drive multi disciplines to support deliverables
  • Strong financial and analytical skills
  • Good written and communication skills
  • Strong people skills / ability to manage others as applicable
Experience:
  • Experience in an equivalent role
  • Good understanding of program planning principles and strategic drivers
  • Ability to lead projects and delegate/manage tasks
  • Management and understanding of local and corporate processes
  • Ability to communicate across management levels on a global basis
  • Confident in understanding other functions and challenging data where appropriate
What do I need before I apply:
  • This role may require security clearance and our offer of employment will be dependent on obtaining the appropriate level of clearance. The details of this requirement will be discussed at interview. If applying for this role, please do not make reference to or include in your application or CV details of any current or previously held security clearance.
Benefits:
  • As an Equal Opportunities employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and abilities and are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community.
  • Consistent with this, we offer a comprehensive range of benefits, both contractual and voluntary to employees with a UK based contract which include:
    • 33 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays),
    • Group Personal Pension
    • Private Health insurance
    • Gym Subsidies
    • Employee Discounts
    • Flexible Working and our Bi-annual Employee Recognition Award Program
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Candidate Selection & Onboarding Process

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Application & Resume Screening

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2

Technical & Competency Interviews

Virtual interviews with the hiring manager and multidisciplinary team.

3

Formal Offer & Benefits Negotiation

Written agreement outlining compensation, equity, retirement vesting, and relocation allowances.

4

Onboarding & Corporate Integration

Equipment provisioning, team orientation, and commencement of duties.

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