TRANSITION SME PROJECT MANAGER

Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people and our community. Our mission and our values guide the way we do business. The foundation of our Leidos culture is our Values, Beliefs and Expectations by which we select, recognise and reward employees. They create the environment that drives us toward our mission.
Inspired to make a difference, we are committed to solving the world’s toughest problems.
Passionate about customer success by being determined to understand and respond to our customers’ needs as if they were our own.
United as a team, we are bound together by our conviction that ethics and integrity is core to how we operate.
Leidos UK is seeking a Transition Project Manager to join the MPS C&C programme and play a key role in supporting the delivery of a government critical system. You will be part of a programme that is delivering a key critical national infrastructure command and control system and supporting the development and transition to live. This role is predominantly working from home, but there are some responsibilities on site with Leidos and the customer. There will be an expectation for abnormal shifts during the transition period due to the nature of the customer needs.

EXCELLENT COMMUNICATION & INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

Able to confidently brief, influence and liaise across technical and non-technical teams, including end users, delivery leads, and engineering staff.

TRAINING & KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

Experience mentoring and upskilling peers or teams, ideal for supporting growth within the Intelligent Client Function and operational readiness across sites.

WHAT WE DO FOR YOU:

At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
• Dynamic Working

WHO WE ARE:

Leidos UK & EUROPE – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.
Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

• Supporting the Engineering, Testing and technical team in the Implementation of engineering governance for all execution activities, in line with Leidos’ Engineering Edge Next Generation (EENG) process library.
• Identification and management engineering risks and issues and highlighting potential business impacts
• Supporting the creation of the programme’s Transition Documentation
• Leading the creation of transition run books and work instructions required to plan, at detail, the cutover activities during the transition events to feed into the customers overall business transition planning.
• Planning for, in detail, and where appropriate, implementing appropriate fall-back/fix-forward steps in the event of unrecoverable failure/incident during the transition events and early life support.
• Oversight of all transition-related testing activities and leading on the Leidos transition testing activities.
• Supporting the management of requirements compliance (production of Verification Cross Reference Matrix) against all transition-related requirements
• Working with the wider Leidos Company, programme transition, engineering, design, Testing and customer teams,