DIO - Project Delivery Manager
| Posting date: | 14 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £44,590 per year |
| Additional salary information: | A pension contribution of 28.97% based on the listed salary |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 August 2025 |
| Location: | Abbey Wood North, Bristol, BS34 8QW |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Defence |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 372278 |
Summary
Join our diverse, outstanding, and motivated team where we are seeking like-minded and hardworking individuals. Our roles provide a great sense of achievement by directly supporting the accomplishment of our team outputs and goals, to provide excellent facilities for our Service Personnel across multiple MoD locations, enabling operational outputs.
Monitoring supplier performance against agreed forecasts and key performance measures, including production of regular progress reports for assigned projects. Identifying and taking corrective action and re-prioritisation of the programme as required and in line with the customer intent.
Engaging and working in collaboration with the supplier, customer, and DIO enabling functions, for the successful delivery of projects. Collaborating closely with Programme managers, site teams and key stakeholders on projects within your areas, and regularly updating key project data on the Information Management Systems. Helping to shape and lead the project team, to deliver agreed project outcomes.
Tracking in year progress of all your projects; undertaking regular analysis and reporting of key achievements, financial and milestone forecasting for the projects assigned to them. Providing effective governance and decision making for the control of projects against delivery and budgets.
Risk Management on their projects including the advice on implementation of mitigation/recovery measures where appropriate, taking care of Early Warnings Notices and Compensation Events in line with commercial policy, and scheduling, chairing and recording decisions from the relevant meetings.
Ensuring quality and compliance within programme schedules by undertaking regular site supervision and obtaining appropriate technical advice from DIO colleagues.
There may be the opportunity to manage an apprentice in the future, therefore being prepared to undertake line management responsibilities is required.
A full UK driving licence is required as the Region is geographically dispersed, and the successful candidate will be site based with a requirement to travel to various locations to fulfil the role successfully and effectively, including occasional travel across the SW region and national travel. Please note Public Transport is not available to many of our locations.
Travel is required between sites to review projects and promote effective stakeholder relationships, spending approximately 60% of your time working from your permanent duty station, or other site locations, to support your work. The successful candidate is expected to travel to visit other PDMs, 2-4 days a month, to support their training and development for as long as needed.
Identification and effective management of project stakeholders that can influence and support the project, as well as expectation management of site staff. Stakeholder analysis, to understand their level of involvement and influence in a project.
Leading on Business Case production for projects where appropriate, monitoring receipt of planned benefits. Acting as a trusted adviser, providing customers with professional estate advice and support as required.
Sharing standard methodology and good practice with colleagues across Regional Delivery.
Conducting post project evaluations and preparing lessons learned papers where appropriate regarding projects.
Please note, candidates will be redirected to the Civil Service Jobs website where you will need to submit your application form. Please note the closing date above is incorrect and cannot be amended so please check the closing date on Civil Service Jobs and allow enough time to submit your application form.
Monitoring supplier performance against agreed forecasts and key performance measures, including production of regular progress reports for assigned projects. Identifying and taking corrective action and re-prioritisation of the programme as required and in line with the customer intent.
Engaging and working in collaboration with the supplier, customer, and DIO enabling functions, for the successful delivery of projects. Collaborating closely with Programme managers, site teams and key stakeholders on projects within your areas, and regularly updating key project data on the Information Management Systems. Helping to shape and lead the project team, to deliver agreed project outcomes.
Tracking in year progress of all your projects; undertaking regular analysis and reporting of key achievements, financial and milestone forecasting for the projects assigned to them. Providing effective governance and decision making for the control of projects against delivery and budgets.
Risk Management on their projects including the advice on implementation of mitigation/recovery measures where appropriate, taking care of Early Warnings Notices and Compensation Events in line with commercial policy, and scheduling, chairing and recording decisions from the relevant meetings.
Ensuring quality and compliance within programme schedules by undertaking regular site supervision and obtaining appropriate technical advice from DIO colleagues.
There may be the opportunity to manage an apprentice in the future, therefore being prepared to undertake line management responsibilities is required.
A full UK driving licence is required as the Region is geographically dispersed, and the successful candidate will be site based with a requirement to travel to various locations to fulfil the role successfully and effectively, including occasional travel across the SW region and national travel. Please note Public Transport is not available to many of our locations.
Travel is required between sites to review projects and promote effective stakeholder relationships, spending approximately 60% of your time working from your permanent duty station, or other site locations, to support your work. The successful candidate is expected to travel to visit other PDMs, 2-4 days a month, to support their training and development for as long as needed.
Identification and effective management of project stakeholders that can influence and support the project, as well as expectation management of site staff. Stakeholder analysis, to understand their level of involvement and influence in a project.
Leading on Business Case production for projects where appropriate, monitoring receipt of planned benefits. Acting as a trusted adviser, providing customers with professional estate advice and support as required.
Sharing standard methodology and good practice with colleagues across Regional Delivery.
Conducting post project evaluations and preparing lessons learned papers where appropriate regarding projects.
Please note, candidates will be redirected to the Civil Service Jobs website where you will need to submit your application form. Please note the closing date above is incorrect and cannot be amended so please check the closing date on Civil Service Jobs and allow enough time to submit your application form.