Operational Technology (OT) Programme Manager - Worthing/WFH/Hybrid

£75,000 - £85,000 plus excellent benefits, bonus and career opportunities/Based Worthing, West Sussex with WFH opportunities, 1 or 2 days per week in the office

Key words: Operational Technology Devices/PLC/Scada/IoT/Smart Metres/RPA/NIS CAF/Comms Remediation/IIOT/Telemetry/ThingWorx/Data Centres.

A leading technology strong professional services company seek an experienced Programme Manager with enterprise implementation experience and a background in Operational Technology/OT systems.

Ideally you will have experience is mobilising projects/programmes and covered technical areas within Operational Technology, Comms Remediation, Networking etc

This is a new era for the company, and this is your chance to be involved from start of the journey, starting new services, improving, refreshing technology and being accountable for the capacity management and really understanding it. You will have the scope to see and implement change, All whilst leading a team ensuring that they deliver the right quality and driving a continuous service improvement culture.

The Operational Technology (OT) Programme Manager is responsible for leading a team of Project Managers and Project Analysts in the planning and management of a portfolio of IT/Business projects.

The Portfolio team works across the Business and IT organisation (working with Business Owners, Product Owners, and Business and IT Programme managers and Solution Leaders) to acquire resources and form project teams; estimate project schedules and costs; manage the project teams work; manage third-party contractors and vendors; deliver projects according to plan, schedule, scope, quality, and budget. They will deliver projects from initiation, through design/procurement, build/integration, testing, deployment and transition to support.

Up and coming projects for the Operational Technology (OT) Programme Manager to oversee:

SCADA and PLC (Programable Logic Controller) upgrade.

Comms Remediation.

Data Centre migrations.

Required knowledge/experience for the Programme Manager - Operational Technology/OT systems:

• Operational Technology/OT systems enterprise implementation experience.
• PMP, Prince 2 or equivalent certification.
• Agile qualification or experience.
• Demonstrable experience in managing enterprise scale programmes and portfolio/programme deliveries.
• People management experience including performance reviews, career development, coaching and mentoring.
• Experience of managing Project Managers in the delivery of simple, medium and large projects.
• Experience of procurement and management of 3rd party suppliers for services, software and infrastructure.
• Experience of working in a Matrix function alongside Business, Service.

Required Capabilities for the Programme Manager - Operational Technology/OT systems:

• Strong Programme and Project Management.
• Strong people management and development.
• Strong stakeholder management (IT and Business).
• Ability to influence and motivate others in IT and Business.
• Strong communication skills, written and verbal.
• Business acumen, staff management, staff recruitment and performance management.
• Fostering an environment of best practise, information sharing, cross training and process improvement.
• Quality Control on Projects.

Good to have for the Programme Manager - Operational Technology/OT systems:

• Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Average 10+ years prior experience in Senior Project management/Programme Management.

Operational Technology (OT) Programme Manager - Worthing/WFH/Hybrid

£75,000 - £85,000 plus excellent benefits, bonus and career opportunities/Based Worthing, West Sussex with WFH opportunities, 1 or 2 days per week in the office