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Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:- Effectively manage the Project Office team to ensure consistency in project delivery.- Identify risks and issues on interdependent projects and allocate resources as necessary to ensure customer delivery standards are not impacted, and delivery deadlines are met.- Report financial progress of the Project Office to line management and effectively articulate results with sound reasoning and remedial action plans where required.- Ensure that standards and best practices are adhered to, in order to maintain quality of output.- Develop and refine Project Office processes and procedures to align with company-wide standards and growing departmental requirements.- Ensure efficiencies in project delivery through assessment of work programmes.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:• Management and delivery of project plans • Ongoing management of plans to achieve delivery goals • Identify and report on company wide non-conformance issues • Identify and mitigate potential risks for delivery of products and services (internal and external) • Work with key stakeholders to manage the deployment of all aspects of project delivery • Work with key stakeholders to secure stakeholder sign-off at all project stages • Work closely with back-office to develop ISO standards • Develop relationships with suppliers including preparation of joint plans and proposals • Develop and manage governance and risk control frameworks Key Skills:• Excellent planning and organisational skills • Strong leadership and communications skills • Strong analytical skills with a proven ability to persuade and influence senior decision-making • Experience of governance and risk control frameworks • Ability to quickly adapt to and understand the business model and common challenges • Ability to cope with a challenging workload in a fast-paced environment • Ability to work in a team or as a team lead

Uk & Overseas

Responsible for day to day management of all organisation communication responsibilities including specialist internal and external training and validation. Planning and implementation of all organisation communication system deployments encompassing a number of different mediums providing Information Communication System (ICS) to both UK/NATO and allied organisations.Project Manager for numerous Construction/IT tasks in Afghanistan.Project Manager for diverse communications systems to provide both digital and analogue voice and data communications whilst in UK and on operations in Afghanistan in support of military engineering tasking.Responsible for a team of over 100 specialist communications operators, including upgrading of communication experience and training.

Provide technical advice/experience to the head of establishment and staff of multiple organisations, adjusting training to suit organisational specific business needs during the delivery of a nationwide system revision. Advising senior management on specific/general best practices and system exploitation ensuring organisations captured their requirements for facilitating role specific Battlefield Information System Applications.Liaising with system provider, application provider and multiple stakeholders ensuring change, change requests and urgent requirements were managed throughout their lifecycle.

Appointed to manage, co-ordinate and administer a team of up to 40 specialist communications operators within UK, Germany, Iraq and Afghanistan. Additionally to run a fleet of vehicles.Administered a team of up to 40 specialist communications operators in support of operations worldwide, using a variety of communications systems.Managed and controlled a fleet of over 80 vehicles with a value in excess of £70m.Career and Training management for up to 40 specialist communicators.Communications Information System Manager for an organization of up to 400 personnel.

• Telecommunications Manager for 3 years.• Telecommunications Team leader for 4 years.• Specialist Communications Operator for 5 years.

Telecommunications Engineering

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