Associate Project Manager

Package: £38,700– £43,000 (salary dependent on experience) + Benefits

Role ID: SF20645

Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as an Associate Project Manager at our Portsmouth site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

The Role

As an Associate Project Manager, you will support the delivery of investment projects within the MTET Integrated Delivery Team (IDT), helping to deliver capabilities under QinetiQ's Long Term Partner Agreement (LTPA) with the MoD. Working within the BUTEC Evolution and Acoustic Signature Measurement (BEASM) pillar, you'll contribute to projects that maintain, enhance, and introduce critical capabilities across QinetiQ-operated MoD ranges.

Day-to-day, you'll coordinate multiple projects, working with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders across QinetiQ and the MoD. You'll support project planning, budget and risk management, governance, and stakeholder engagement to help ensure capabilities remain safe, dependable, and fit for customer needs.

Your responsibilities will include

• Support successful project delivery, ensuring outputs are achieved in line with agreed time, cost, quality, revenue, and customer satisfaction targets
• Build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships with customers, project teams, partners, suppliers, and wider business functions
• Promote a safe, secure, and values-driven culture, ensuring compliance with organisational policies, governance, and operating frameworks
• Monitor project performance, maintaining accurate financial and resource forecasts, reporting progress, and ensuring data quality across project systems
• Facilitate collaboration and resolve project issues, including conflict management, prioritisation decisions, and cross-functional coordination
• Provide project management support and leadership, including acting as the Project Manager's delegated authority when required and supporting governance reviews and assurance activities

Essential experience of the Associate Project Manager

Demonstrates the ability to influence and motivate others, fostering a collaborative environment where diverse teams work effectively towards shared project objectives

Builds strong relationships with stakeholders and communicates clearly and effectively, ensuring expectations, requirements, and project updates are understood by all parties

Acts with honesty, accountability, and transparency, consistently delivering on commitments and maintaining trust with colleagues, customers, and stakeholders

Supports the successful delivery of projects through effective coordination, prioritisation, risk awareness, and attention to detail, helping ensure project objectives are achieved

Identifies and manages differing priorities, viewpoints, or challenges, facilitating constructive discussions and achieving positive outcomes for all stakeholders

Demonstrates an understanding of customer needs, business development activities, and commercial frameworks, contributing to proposal development, project planning, and the delivery of customer-focused solutions

Essential qualifications for the Associate Project Manager

Holds Degree, apprenticeship or equivalent industry experience in a relevant discipline

We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

This role is 37 hours per week based at our Portsmouth site with a minimum average site attendance of three days per week. Travel to other QinetiQ and customer sites will be expected.

Portsmouth Technology Park (PTP) is one of QinetiQ’s key facilities, focusing on advanced technology development and engineering services. It is dedicated to research and development, ensuring that complex systems are designed, integrated, and tested effectively to meet operational requirements. The facility utilises sophisticated modelling and simulation techniques to analyse and predict performance.

Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.

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Our Recruitment Process

At QinetiQ we are committed to building an inclusive, accessible and welcoming workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We believe that a diverse mix of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences drives innovation and leads to better outcomes for our people, customers and communities. We encourage applications from all candidates and are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing [email protected]. One of our recruitment team will contact you.

Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which means factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

As a QinetiQ employee, you’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experiences enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture. www.qinetiq.com/en/careers/life-at-qinetiq

Our Benefits

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days
• Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
• Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and local community