# Project Manager

**Company**: TEKEVER
**Location**: Bristol
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Defence & Intelligence
**Industry**: Defence

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## Description

TEKEVER is recruiting a Project Manager for an operational UAS programme delivered to a UK MOD customer. The role is dedicated to this single programme and reports directly to the Programme Director. The programme supports the sustainment of a fleet of deployed UAS in continuous operational use.

Responsibilities:

- Delivery coordination: convert programme decisions into tracked, owned actions across engineering, operations, logistics, and commercial teams in the UK and Portugal, and follow them through to closure.

- Fleet sustainment support: coordinate the planning, tasking, and tracking that keeps the deployed fleet available and supported.

- Jira and Confluence ownership: administer and improve the programme's boards, workflows, and documentation spaces; maintain them as the authoritative record of delivery status.

- Scheduling and planning: maintain accurate programme schedules and re-plan as operational requirements change.

- Reporting: run the programme's reporting cycle, producing outputs appropriate to each audience from working level to executive.

- Risk management: maintain the risk register, track mitigation actions to completion, and escalate with recommendations.

Requirements:

- Project delivery experience in the Defence sector , industry or military , with an understanding of the MOD customer environment.

- Working competence in Jira and Confluence, including configuring boards and workflows, from regular hands-on use.

- Experience driving actions to closure across teams outside your direct line management.

- A recognised project management qualification (e.g. APM PMQ, PRINCE2 Practitioner) or equivalent experience.

- Strong written and spoken English.

- Eligibility for UK Security Check (SC) clearance; TEKEVER will sponsor vetting. Existing clearance is an advantage.

- Right to work in the UK.

Conditions of the role:

- Based at the TEKEVER Bristol site.

- Occasional travel (approximately quarterly) to TEKEVER sites in the UK and Portugal and to customer locations.

- Occasional extended hours at short notice in response to operational need. Time off in lieu (TOIL) is provided.

What we have to offer you: At TEKEVER, we offer a comprehensive package designed to reward, support, and develop our people. This includes a highly competitive salary with a discretionary annual bonus and a company pension contribution match of up to 10%. To support your wellbeing, we provide 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays, Private Medical Insurance (with optional family cover), Private Dental care, and an Employee Assistance Programme.

## Skills

### Required
- Project management
- Jira
- Confluence
- Defence sector
- MOD customer environment
- English

### Nice to have
- APM PMQ
- PRINCE2 Practitioner
- UK Security Check (SC) clearance

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