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Our products and services support strategic and operational decisions in the most demanding environments - whether at sea, on land, in space, or in cyberspace.\nBecome part of a dynamic, multidisciplinary, and mission-driven team that is transforming maritime surveillance and redefining global safety standards.\nAt TEKEVER, our mission is to provide limitless support through mission-oriented game-changers, delivering the right information at the right time to empower critical decision-making.\nIf you're passionate about technology and eager to shape the future - TEKEVER is the place for you.\nMission:\nTEKEVER is recruiting a Project Manager for an operational UAS programme delivered to a UK MOD customer. The role is dedicated to this single programme and reports directly to the Programme Director. The programme supports the sustainment of a fleet of deployed UAS in continuous operational use. 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The programme's delivery tracking runs in Jira and Confluence, and the Project Manager owns that environment.\nRole Responsibilities:\nDelivery coordination: convert programme decisions into tracked, owned actions across engineering, operations, logistics, and commercial teams in the UK and Portugal, and follow them through to closure.\n\nFleet sustainment support: coordinate the planning, tasking, and tracking that keeps the deployed fleet available and supported.\n\nJira and Confluence ownership: administer and improve the programme's boards, workflows, and documentation spaces; maintain them as the authoritative record of delivery status.\n\nScheduling and planning: maintain accurate programme schedules and re-plan as operational requirements change.\n\nReporting: run the programme's reporting cycle, producing outputs appropriate to each audience from working level to executive.\n\nRisk management: maintain the risk register, track mitigation actions to completion, and escalate with recommendations.\n\nRequirements:\nProject delivery experience in the Defence sector - industry or military - with an understanding of the MOD customer environment.\n\nWorking competence in Jira and Confluence, including configuring boards and workflows, from regular hands-on use.\n\nExperience driving actions to closure across teams outside your direct line management.\n\nA recognised project management qualification (e.g. APM PMQ, PRINCE2 Practitioner) or equivalent experience.\n\nStrong written and spoken English.\n\nEligibility for UK Security Check (SC) clearance; TEKEVER will sponsor vetting. 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