Head of Programme Management, Engineering Capability

at  Culham Centre for Fusion Energy

STEP

Department
UKIFS - Programme Management
Discipline
Management
Site Location
West Burton or Culham
Type of Employment
Full-time
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QUALIFICATIONS

What you will bring to UKIFS

• Excellent leadership and team management skills, with a track record of successfully leading and developing high-performance teams.
• Experience of managing large programmes in a technical or engineering environment (>£100M).
• In-depth knowledge of project and programme delivery including financial management of significant budgets.
• Appropriate qualifications, such as MSP® Foundation, Practitioner or Advanced Practitioner.
• Proven ability to handle ambiguity, uncertainty and high levels of complexity in project delivery.
• Substantial experience in working with a diverse range of senior stakeholders and external partners, ideally with an element of public funding.
• Experience in delivering engineering capability including digital tool development, modelling and validation capabilities.
• A commitment to ethical business practices and a high level of integrity.

For more information on UKIFS, visit: https://careers.ukaea.uk/wp-content/uploads/download/UKIFS_CandidateRecruitmentPack.pdf
Employees of UKIFS can be based at either of our sites; West Burton, Nottinghamshire or Culham, Oxfordshire (our preference is West Burton).
This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions.
The Role
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference on a global scale? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy as Head of Programme Management, Engineering Capability, leading teams of project and technical professionals to provide STEP the essential engineering people, tools and capability to achieve an integrated fusion prototype design.
STEP – One mission. One vision. One planet. (ukaea.uk)

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Leading a team of project professionals drawn from across all parts of the STEP programme, providing guidance, leadership, and support to ensure the team’s effectiveness and professional growth.
• Providing strategic advice to the SRO, Programme Director, Director Engineering Programme on matters pertaining to delivery of the defined engineering capability programme of works.
• Provide direction to the senior leadership team and the delivery teams (series of internal project managers/delivery teams) to ensure the effective delivery of the engineering programme.
• Manage the day to day running and ongoing management of the engineering capability programme and engineering function change projects, to ensure that the required capability is available, as required, across all parts of STEP and collaborating organisations
• Lead prioritisation and instruct value engineering exercises on projects within the capability development programme ensuring funding spend remains on track and that the programme is delivered in line with expected quality standards and strategic objectives.
• Provide clear leadership to the Project Managers; resolve obstacles to delivery within the programme and lead the identification and employment of solutions to overcome them.

The above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of activities and you may be required to undertake other reasonable tasks or duties requested.
Salary
£79,638 + excellent benefits including outstanding pension
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