Location: Birmingham
Salary: From £40K per year (dependant on experience)
Hours: 37 hours per week – Monday to Thursday 07:30-16:00, Friday 07:30-12:30
Vacancy Type: Full‑time, Permanent
About Us
We are a growing, innovative defence business with a turnover of £15.20 million, delivering high‑quality solutions to UK and international customers. As we continue to scale, we are investing in a Project Management Officer (PMO) to ensure robust delivery, compliance, and operational excellence across all programmes.
The Opportunity
We’re looking for a highly organised and proactive PMO to support the successful delivery of multiple projects across the business. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in a fast‑growing SME where you’ll have real visibility, influence, and the chance to shape how projects are delivered in a regulated, high‑impact environment.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Supporting Project Managers in planning, tracking, and delivering projects
- Maintaining project schedules, documentation, and governance processes
- Producing clear, accurate reports and dashboards for senior leadership
- Tracking risks, issues, and dependencies across multiple programmes
- Coordinating project meetings, reviews, and action logs
- Supporting resource planning and highlighting capacity constraints
- Ensuring compliance with defence, quality, and audit requirements
- Creating a Product Initiation process (PID)
What We’re Looking For
- Experience in a PMO, project support, or coordination role
- Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail
- Confidence working with data, reporting, and project tracking tools (e.g. Excel, MS Project)
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work across teams
Desirable (but not essential)
- Experience in defence, aerospace, or other regulated industries
- Knowledge of project methodologies such as APMP, PRINCE2 or Agile
- Experience with risk management or financial tracking
Why Join Us?
- Be part of a growing business where your work has real impact
- Gain exposure to complex, high‑value defence projects
- Work closely with senior leadership and experienced project professionals
- Opportunity to develop your career within project management and PMO
Security Requirements
- Must be a British National with no dual nationality due to security clearance requirements.
- Eligible to obtain UK security clearance to SC level.
Benefits
- Company events
- Company pension
- Health and wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- Sick pay
- Holidays: 25 days (combination of compulsory shutdown and floating days)
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