Project Manager

Project Manager

Location: This is a Hybrid role. Whiteley, Hampshire

Clearance Required: This role will require attainment and maintenance of SC clearance

Help shape the future of air travel!

We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join our Air Traffic Management team, supporting the delivery of critical programmes for our long-standing customer, NATS.

Based from our Whiteley office, you'll work closely with the Programme Manager and leadership team to deliver complex development projects that contribute to the safety, efficiency, and innovation of air traffic control systems used across the UK and around the world.

For more than 50 years, Leidos heritage companies have helped shape modern air traffic control systems. Today, our technology supports approximately 75% of air traffic in the United States and around 60% of the world's air traffic.

In the UK, we have partnered with NATS since the early 1990s, supporting the development, migration, enhancement, and ongoing operation of critical air traffic management systems. Our work helps keep millions of passengers moving safely every year.

If you're looking to work on programmes that have real-world impact and support national infrastructure, we'd love to hear from you.

What You'll Do

As a Project Manager, you will:

• Lead and coordinate project activities to support successful programme delivery.
• Develop and maintain robust project plans aligned to customer and business commitments.
• Monitor progress against agreed objectives, identifying and managing dependencies and challenges.
• Proactively manage risks, issues, opportunities, and mitigation plans.
• Provide clear and timely project reporting to programme leadership and key stakeholders.
• Build strong relationships with customers, suppliers, and internal teams to ensure alignment and successful outcomes.
• Support effective decision-making through planning, analysis, and stakeholder engagement.

What We're Looking Fo r

We're interested in people who can demonstrate:

• Experience successfully delivering projects or programmes in a structured environment.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
• The ability to collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams and organisations.
• Good commercial and business awareness, including an understanding of project planning, finance, and resource management.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• A proactive and organised approach, with the ability to manage competing priorities and solve problems effectively.

What we do for you:

At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme and much more!)
• Flexi-Time Working

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & Europe - we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.