Senior IT/OT Project Manager – Secure Infrastructure – Hybrid (Bedford)

We’re looking for a Senior Project Manager to lead complex technology transformation projects across both IT and Operational Technology (OT) environments.

You’ll own projects end-to-end, covering infrastructure, applications and services operating within secure environments, with responsibility for scope, schedule, budget, RAID, suppliers and stakeholder management.

Skills & Experience

Essential:

• Strong experience delivering complex IT transformation or modernisation projects
• End-to-end project delivery from business case and planning through implementation and handover
• Experience across IT infrastructure, networks, cloud, cyber security and/or Operational Technology
• Strong budget, scheduling, RAID and change management experience
• Third-party supplier and systems integrator management
• Experience delivering within secure, regulated or operationally critical environments
• Strong senior stakeholder management and reporting capability
• PRINCE2, APM, Agile, MSP or equivalent project management background
• Experience working within an ITIL-aligned environment

Desirable:

• Defence, aerospace, government or Critical National Infrastructure experience
• Secure IT/OT transformation projects
• Cybersecurity-led infrastructure delivery
• ISO 27001, NIST, Secure by Design or Cyber Essentials exposure
• Microsoft Project and JIRA
• Experience coordinating deployments where operational uptime is critical

Additional Information

• Contract position
• Competitive daily rate
• Hybrid working – Bedford
• Typically 2-3 days onsite per week
• SC clearance required or ability to obtain it
• No dual nationals due to clearance requirements
• Complex IT/OT projects within a secure engineering environment