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On behalf of AWE, we are looking for a X3 Handover Managers - Inside IR35 for an 18 month contract. This is a hybrid working role - three days per week onsite Aldermaston, Reading.

What if you could work on something that you can’t test… but cannot afford to fail? Something that could have spent years on a submarine, is launched into outer space (where the temperature is below -250c), comes hurtling through the atmosphere, being heated up and shaken and then must work? Some challenge. That’s exactly what the team of over 6,500 people at AWE do every day delivering important work, in support of the most important mission – keeping the nation safe.

AWE plays a crucial role in national nuclear security. Their role in nuclear deterrence and their specialist technical assistance to nuclear threat reduction is vital in the defence against the most serious threats faced by the UK. Working to support the defence of our country, AWE has a clear mission to keep everyone, the environment, their products and information, sites, and everything around them, safe and secure.

Job Purpose:

To manage, organize and control Handover activities on a portfolio of projects or single Capital Project on behalf of the Senior Project Manager reporting to the Handover Team Leader; recommending improvements in accordance with the company’s Security, Quality, Environmental, Safety and Health management arrangements and all applicable legislation.

DV Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks.

As a Handover Manager, your main responsibilities will be to:

• Comply with the AWE procedures, processes & standards and ensure that all project team personnel comply with the specific procedures relating to Handover.
• Effectively and accurately communicate relevant project Handover information to the client and project team.
• Communicate ideas for improving company processes with a positive and constructive attitude, and for developing this attitude in others.
• Keep Senior Portfolio Project Managers and others informed about project status and issues that may impact client relations and Handover.
• Implement and chair project acceptance meetings.
• Ensuring sufficient resource has been agreed with the Handover Team Leader.
• Assuring deliverables and arrangements between all participating stakeholders are agreed and appropriately accounted for.
• Provide notification of Risks, Issues and Mitigating actions to the Project Manager and Group Leader Commissioning and Handover.
• Ensure that supply chain framework understand the AWE Handover Processes and are aware of Awe’s expectations in relation to Handover.
• Provision of final acceptance of completed documentation.
• Review the Handover Management Arrangements; Handover deliverable lists; and Functional Breakdown Structures of projects within the portfolio.

You'll have:

• Experience managing a portfolio of work
• Project controls experience
• Scheduling experience
• Stakeholder engagement experience
• Project Management qualification

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

AWE’s ambition is to create workplaces that recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and where people feel able to be themselves at work. They strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants.

Disability confident 

As a member of the disability confident scheme, AWE guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant 

AWE guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".