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Project Manager RGT & V&V

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Posting date: 19 May 2025
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 18 June 2025
Location: Pentrebach, CF48 4LA
Company: General Dynamics Lands Systems UK
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 487

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General Dynamics Land Systems is on the look-out for a full-time Project Manager to join our PMO Team, based in Merthyr, South Wales. The successful and inclusive candidate will earn a favourable salary of £57,600 to £72,000 based on experience and potential. This is an ideal role for someone who has a proactive and positive mindset and a keen desire to grow professionally. Joining an established team based at our Merthyr facility, you will work across a range of stakeholders to manage the EAC, risks and project schedule. Provide the programme with updates and report on EAC variances. You will take an active lead to ensure that the Joint Integrated Programme Schedule is adhered to and raise any risks and issues to the Programme manager.If you were already working in this position, this is what you would have been working on this week:
  • Manage the Earn Value Management (EVM) for the ITEA project and provide monthly updates to the PMO on performance.
  • Manage and be responsible for the EAC on the programme.
  • Attend and lead on weekly monthly programme EAC reviews. Support the Senior Programme Manager with Senior and Corporate level reviews.
To apply for this role, you will require the following:
  • Demonstrable practical understanding and experience of project lifecycles and project delivery.
  • Experience of project management in a product development and manufacturing environment.
  • Understanding and experience using Earned Value Management for project control.
  • Understanding of Risk Management practices
Our Company Benefits: We pride ourselves in being a great place to work with a shared sense of purpose, offering highly competitive benefits:
  • A compressed nine-day fortnight – which means every other Friday off!
  • A flexible benefits scheme - allowing you to adapt your benefits to suit yours and your family’s needs
  • A personalised career development plan, alongside regular progress reviews - supporting and valuing your progression within the Company
  • Professional training and development courses, both internal and external - allowing you to reach your full potential
  • A flexible working environment where your contributions are recognised and rewarded, which includes compressed hours, reduced hours and job share
  • A Company sports and social club, offering events at discounted prices – giving you the opportunity to meet and socialise with your fellow colleagues outside the workplace
About General Dynamics UK General Dynamics Land Systems is a global leader in providing products and support across the full spectrum of combat vehicles. Our global team has more than 6,000 employees working towards creating a diverse product portfolio delivering best-in-class capability to Armed Forces communities worldwide. In the UK, we employee more than 650 people and are leading the way in Armoured Fighting Vehicles and sustainment services. Our vision is documented and embedded into our culture, so all employees understand the Company’s direction and their role in achieving it. We are currently delivering the AJAX programme, providing 589 Armoured Fighting Vehicles in six variants to the British Army and have also developed and delivered 400 Foxhound vehicles - a highly-protected and mobile 4x4 platform with high-deployment availability. We believe in maintaining a diverse workplace – inclusive of beliefs, cultural background, job experiences, thoughts and ideas. If who we are and what we do resonates with you, we invite you to join our high performance team As part of our commitment to inclusion and diversity we welcome in particular applications from women, members of the LGBTQIA+ community and ethnic minority groups. We are a Disability Confident Employer, as such we offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job.

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