Project Manager (Gatekeeper)

Your Challenge:

As Project Manager, you’ll take ownership of multiple, small/medium sized, financially significant projects, ensuring that they are delivered to time, budget and quality requirements.

Your Role:

• You will manage multiple telecoms rigging related project orders from multiple customers both internal and external across the business.
• You will act as the main project level point of contact for the customers providing regular progress reports and completing contractual governance meetings – managing expectations and making recommendations.
• You will assess new work orders using delivery experience and commercial awareness to ensure we are able to effectively react to all accepted work
• You will continually assess project viability and ensure that deliverables remain within the agreed scope of the project.
• You will take responsibility for risk management, contingency planning and all other aspects relating to the implementation of core project management methodology.

About You:

• You will have demonstrable experience of managing projects within a telecoms environment, interacting with project level stakeholders and effectively tracking progress against SLAs and KPIs.
• You will have strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail.
• You will have a positive flexible attitude to challenges during the peaks and troughs of a project environment
• You will have experience of project governance in a telecoms environment
• A recognised project management qualification, e.g. Prince 2, APM, etc. would be an advantage
• A strong understanding of technology within a mobile communications network context would be a distinct advantage.

Salary and Benefits:

Red Band
£28,305 – £47,175
25 days annual leave

About us:

Airwave leads the world in delivering mission critical communications services. Great Britain’s emergency services and many public service organisations rely on Airwave to keep them communicating during both day to day operations and especially during unplanned incidents.
Today, we are transforming how they are able to use some of these tools, taking advantage of tomorrow’s capabilities today, blending technologies to achieve better results. We are delivering the benefits of 4G for high speed secure video and data on demand. This enables faster decision making through the application of real-time intelligence and dynamic resource management.
The successful candidate will need to undergo UK security vetting for this position.
This will involve:

– Completion of a security clearance questionnaire by the candidate
– Checking identity documents and employment/education/references/residency in the UK (Minimum 5 years)
– Checks against UK criminal and security records
– A credit reference check;
– If considered necessary, checks against the criminal and security records of relevant foreign countries.