Technical Engineering Project Manager

Onyx-Conseil
London
2 months ago
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Working arrangements: Please note this role does offer hybrid working, our model sets out a minimum 60% onsite / 40% home working split.


Overview

This role is part of the P3MO (Portfolio, Programme and Project Management Office). This role is seconded into a project to ensure technical delivery according to time, cost, and quality alongside the core project team (Project Manager and Technical Lead). This role is key for ensuring the project transition through the technical delivery life cycle (concept to design to bills of materials management to procurement and assembly).


Responsibilities

  1. Work alongside the Project Manager and Technical Lead/Chief Engineer to provide engineering delivery leadership to the project team.
  2. Ensure that planned activities and deliverables are completed by suppliers and internal engineering teams to schedule.
  3. Help to generate and maintain project technical documentation and participate in continuous improvement activities both at project and business level, applying system thinking where required.
  4. Capture requirements applying validation and verification, translating requirements into deliverables and project objectives, and track the progress of satisfying the requirements.
  5. Ensure project documentation is established according to the project and programme management processes (e.g., requirements, project plans, finances, system FMEAs, design release approvals, risk register, change management documentation).
  6. Identify project risks and liaise with key stakeholders to ensure suitable mitigation plans are in place and coordinate business discussions to resolve any time, cost, or specification changes where necessary.
  7. Ensure lessons learnt are captured and shared appropriately.
  8. Promote adherence to safe working practices in the delivery of project activities, ensuring design per safety is understood and followed from conception to operation.
  9. Appreciate engineering standards and their application to technical delivery through the life cycle of the project.


Requirements

  1. Appropriate experience in delivering complex technology, product, and/or infrastructure programmes.
  2. Experienced user of Microsoft Project and/or other Agile programme management tools (e.g., JIRA, Redmine, etc.).
  3. Knowledge and experience of engineering design and/or software development processes.
  4. Empathetic and able to form a strong network of effective relationships across the organisation.
  5. Good communication skills (both oral and written) with the ability to report project status, issues, and plans concisely and effectively in different forums.
  6. Proactive and energetic, able to support and motivate the team with good problem-solving and decision-making skills.
  7. A great organiser and planner with experience in resource and budget setting and management.
  8. Adaptable and resilient, with the ability to deal with ambiguity.


Benefits

  1. Salary dependent on skills and experience and will be discussed from the outset.
  2. 28 days (inclusive of festive break) holiday plus bank holidays.
  3. Eligible for discretionary performance-related bonus.
  4. Share options scheme.
  5. Pension scheme.
  6. Financial benefits - including group life insurance, critical illness, health cash plan, and discount scheme.
  7. Innovation and Merit bonuses.
  8. Investment in training and development to support career progression.
  9. Opportunity to work on and contribute to world-class innovation.


Company Background

What if there was a limitless, safe, clean, low-cost energy source, providing much-needed global energy security? What if that energy source could also help address climate change? The answer is fusion energy - the power of the stars. Tokamak Energy is a leading global commercial fusion energy company based near Oxford with an unrivalled track record designing and operating spherical tokamaks; the optimal route to commercial fusion.

In addition to fusion, Tokamak Energy is recognised as a world leader in transformative High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) magnet technology. Our dedicated HTS magnet team, in collaboration with key manufacturing partners, is focused on enabling new levels of performance and becoming the leading supplier of HTS magnets to multiple markets, including renewable energy, medicine, science, and propulsion in water, land, air, and space.

The company, founded in 2009 as a spin-off from the UK Atomic Energy Authority, currently employs a growing team of over 260 people with experts from the UK and around the world. It combines world-leading scientific, engineering, industrial, and commercial capabilities. The company has more than 75 families of patent applications and has raised $335 million, comprising $275m from private investors and $60m from the UK and U.S. governments. Our U.S. subsidiary, Tokamak Energy Inc, was established in 2019.

Come and be a part of a dynamic and innovative team striving to provide a solution to one of humanity's greatest challenges: clean and sustainable fusion energy for all.


Important Information for Candidates

Pre-employment screening:Please note that the appointment of the successful candidate will be subject to standard pre-employment screening, as applicable to the post. This will include right-to-work, proof of identity, and references.

Data privacy:Please note that any personal data submitted to Tokamak Energy as part of the job application process will be processed in accordance with the GDPR and related UK data protection legislation.

Equality of opportunity:Entry into employment with Tokamak Energy and progression within employment will be determined only by personal merit and the application of criteria which are related to the duties of each post and the relevant salary structure. In all cases, ability to perform the job will be the primary consideration. No applicant or member of staff shall be discriminated against because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

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