Senior Project Manager

About the Role

A Senior Project Manager at AWE leads and delivers complex projects aligned with AWE’s project delivery framework, commercially managing delivery partners and ensuring projects meet cost, quality, and safety standards. A strong background in project management such as an APM, PMP, or similar membership is required.

Responsibilities

• Drive end‑to‑end delivery of complex projects, programmes, or portfolios – from business case development through to completion and transition into operation.
• Lead and inspire project teams, embedding a culture of accountability, high performance, and continuous improvement.
• Champion health, safety, and environmental practices, ensuring best practice standards are achieved and supporting AWE’s carbon reduction targets.
• Define scope and delivery plans, while managing cost, schedule, and quality to meet objectives.
• Provide strong governance by producing clear decision packs, maintaining performance baselines, and leading risk and opportunity management.
• Manage commercial engagement, securing value‑for‑money delivery partners and suppliers, and ensuring contracts drive compliance and successful outcomes.
• Act as a senior stakeholder manager, aligning leadership, regulators, and operations teams both within AWE and externally.
• Coach and develop project teams, supporting early careers and fostering a culture of learning and growth.

Qualifications & Experience

• Project Management qualification/membership (APM, PMP, PRINCE2) or equivalent experience.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to build relationships at all levels.
• Proven experience delivering multiple, complex, high‑value, cross‑functional projects.
• Competence in creating and maintaining project documentation, plans, and RAIDs (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies).
• Ability to track deliverables using KPIs and produce clear progress reports.
• Expertise in risk management, governance, and change control, including stage gate approvals.
• Commercial awareness with a focus on value, compliance, and successful delivery.
• Dynamic leadership style that empowers teams to adapt, perform, and align with AWE’s vision.

Benefits

• 9‑day working fortnight – every other Friday off, plus 270 hours of annual leave.
• Market‑leading contributory pension scheme (AWE pays 9%–13% of pensionable pay).
• Family‑friendly policies: 39 weeks full‑pay maternity leave and 4 weeks full‑pay paternity leave.
• Professional career development opportunities, including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Life assurance (4× annual salary).
• Discounts on a wide range of everyday spending.
• Special leave policy for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces), and caring responsibilities.

Working Conditions

Location: RG7 4PR, between Reading and Basingstoke, with free on‑site parking. The role offers flexible working arrangements; hybrid working is available on an informal, non‑contractual basis, typically 2–3 days on‑site per week.

Important Information

• Applications are encouraged to be submitted promptly as the role may close early due to high demand.
• Applicants must obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role; this will be funded by AWE. You must be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years (10 years for DV clearance).
• Let us know if you need any adjustments or accommodations during the recruitment process.
• Interviews typically take place over Teams and are a 1‑stage process.
• To apply for this role, you must be a British Citizen.

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