Airbus Helicopters is the world’s largest helicopter manufacturer and the company’s site at Oxford Airport is Britain’s civil helicopter hub.
AHUK offers considerable experience in helicopter sales, bespoke completions, maintenance and spares support. Its in-house engineering capabilities include design, customisation, installation, flight-testing and certification, as well as technical support, maintenance, training and the supply of spares for civil and military applications.
AHUK is the MoD’s chosen provider of helicopters and maintenance for its Defence Helicopter Flying School (referred to as MFTS) located in RAF Shawbury (Shropshire) and RAF Valley (Anglesey).
Description/Overall purpose of the Job
At Airbus helicopters Oxford, we are expanding our team due to an increase in workload. A project manager is required to initially support an ongoing project with the MoD. The primary project is to deliver an aircraft capability with the introduction into service of additional airframes to the customer. The successful applicant will join the PMO team at Oxford who specialize in both new build aircraft and retrofitting in service aircraft in both the civil and military domains.
Main responsibilities
- Day to day management of the project.
- Planning and scheduling of the project
- Controlling work activities between multifunction teams
- Monitoring spend and schedule adherence
- Reporting, both internally and to the customer
- Risk monitoring and control
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Project planning and controls
- Earned Value Management
- Experience as a PM with MoD as a customer
- Current SC clearance is a must have
- Understanding of EASA, UK CAA and UK MAA
- Commercial understanding
Desirable
- Background within an aviation engineering environment
- Experience with Primavera P6
- Experience with SAP
- Experience with customer facing roles
- Experience in a Pt21 environment
Education, Qualifications or Training
Essential
- Formal project management training at practitioner level - APMP, Prince 2 etc.
- Background in aviation
- UK driving licence
Desirable
- Formal aviation engineering background is desirable but not essential
About you
- Excellent communication and presentation skills are needed
- You will need to have strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills
- Self-motivated
- Drive to deliver on time
- Ability to dissect large problems into achievable goals
Additional requirements
- Applicants must be willing to travel as part of the role. Around 10
- The role is based on site at Oxford airport, Killington. Remote working is not available for this role.
The Reward
In joining the Airbus family, you will play a critical part in delivering the most efficient helicopters for its customers, who serve, protect, save lives and carry passengers in demanding environments. On top of your competitive base salary, you will have access to the following benefits below via our Airbus salary sacrifice schemes:
- Private Medical Insurance (Bupa) – single cover for employees paid by the company
- Pension: Employees are auto-enrolled into the Airbus Group UK Retirement Fund. Initially, AH contributes 6, employee 4 basic
- Share Incentive Plan and ESOP. Annual share schemes at company discretion.
- Success Share, Discretionary Group bonus scheme (conditions apply)
- Bikes to Work (up to 3,000) (employee purchase scheme)
- Technology ( employee purchase scheme)
- Mydrive (employee car purchase scheme)
- Den-Plan (employee purchase scheme)
- Health-care Cash Scheme
- Personal Accident Insurance (employee purchase scheme)
- Health Assessments
- Travel Insurance
- Financial/Legal Advice (eg, Will-writing; Lasting Power of Attorney)
Data Protection
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Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.