Description
Job Title: Senior Project Professional
Contract Type: Permanent
Flexibility: This role is available part-time, job-share or full time. This is because we want the best people for our roles, and we recognise that sometimes those people aren’t available full-time, however the nature of the Project Manager role often drives regular engagement with project teams daily.
Location: BMT’s projects are spread across our various sites in the UK, with emphasis at the present time on our facilities across Bath, Weymouth, Fareham, Plymouth 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, 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.
About BMT
BMT is dedicated to tackling the most crucial engineering challenges of our era, fostering an environment where individuals with exceptional technical expertise provide meaningful, practical solutions. Committed to creating a safer, more efficient, effective, and sustainable future, BMT values diversity, equity, and inclusion, recognisng their pivotal role in achieving our business purpose. Learn more about BMT at
www.bmt.org.
At BMT, we pride ourselves on being a verified flexible workplace, providing freedom and choice. We understand not everyone has the same needs in order to make work work for them and their lives - we'd love you to discuss any requirements for flexibility with us - we can't promise to fulfil every request but we do promise to listen to what matters to you. Learn more about our flexible status at Flexa Careers
Why Work for Us?
Joining BMT means gaining access to a comprehensive set of employee benefits designed to empower your success. In addition to a competitive salary, our offerings encompass health, family, finance, and personal development, including:
- Private Medical (family coverage)
- Enhanced Pension
- 18 weeks enhanced maternity pay (after a qualifying period of 1 year)
- Family friendly policies
- Committed to an inclusive culture
- Wellbeing Fund – an annual fund for personal hobbies or interests
- 26 Days Annual Leave (plus bank holidays)
- Holiday Trading
- Retail Vouchers
- Professional Subscriptions
About The Role
We are increasingly using our knowledge and expertise to drive transformative designs, technology and solutions around the world that will contribute towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). BMT’s focus SDGs are Climate Action and Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure. These goals matter most to our stakeholders and are where we believe we can have the greatest impact towards a better future.
We are seeking individuals who are passionate about addressing these global challenges and are proactive in finding opportunities to integrate sustainable practices as part their 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
- The Delivery 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 project delivery lifecycle.
· The Bid/Proposal Project Manager role, tasked with providing project management subject matter expertise to aid the definition of standard or complex projects, and the estimation of PM effort, that will form the basis of a bid/proposal for a potential client. Additional activities may also involve supporting the project cost estimation process, creating the initial delivery project structure in the project management system, and supporting BMT’s assurance review and gate processes.
- 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.
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.
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 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 able to either attain or transfer the security clearance.
What's Next?
If you are ready to contribute your skills and passion to a dynamic team addressing impactful challenges, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity with BMT. Join us in shaping a safer, more efficient, and sustainable future.
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
