Technical Project Manager (12 months FTC)
OQC are putting Quantum in the hands of Humanity and are offering an opportunity for a Technical Project Manager (Maternity cover) to be a part of that journey.
This is a great opportunity for a project manager to develop and demonstrate experience across a wide range of technical projects in the growing field of Quantum Computing.
Salary: £55k per annum
About you
You will have experience delivering projects in a technical and/or scientific environment, with the breadth of understanding necessary to choose the right methodology to best suit the needs of the project and the adaptability to keep things on track in an unstructured environment.
Your background in managing and coordinating the work of skilled teams of experts to deliver company milestones on time and on budget will be a testimony to your well developed communication skills and tenacious approach to your work.
About the role
We are seeking a Technical Project Manager to take on a 12 month maternity cover contract. Projects cover technical development and deployment projects as well as internal projects. The Technical Project Manager will be responsible for ensuring projects within OQC are fully resourced, running on-time and within budget to meet technical deliverable milestones across the business.
Key responsibilities:
- Translating technical requirements and turning these into actionable project plans from idea to completion.
- Leading initiation and kick-off meetings for a variety of projects implementing suitable project methodologies
- Creating project plans and executing these plans against agreed timelines
- Updating project management documentation tools with project plans/deliverables to ensure the availability of real-time project updates
- Leading and reporting on project meetings covering real-time project goals, updates, adjustments and resolving project conflicts.
- Managing budget resources and ensure spending is tracked in real-time
- Executing and implementing project plans against approved project framework
- Working on and delivering projects against agreed project methodology
- Delivered projects in a technical and science based environment
- Managed budgets in the the multi-millions
- Implemented and delivered projects across multiple project frameworks/methodologies
- Project and budget tracking experience
- Familiar with a range of Project Management methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, waterfall
- Strong presentation skills
- Relevant degree or college level education
- Prince2 or Agile certifications
- Forecasted budgets
- Able to select appropriate project tracking tools
- Experience selecting project frameworks to be used across global projects
- Presented project reports up to exec level
- Experience of managing Microsoft migrations
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