Project Management Office

Location: Birmingham

Salary: From £40K per year (dependant on experience)

Hours: 37 hours per week – Monday to Thursday 07:30-16:00, Friday 07:30-12:30

Vacancy Type: Full‑time, Permanent

About Us

We are a growing, innovative defence business with a turnover of £15.20 million, delivering high‑quality solutions to UK and international customers. As we continue to scale, we are investing in a Project Management Officer (PMO) to ensure robust delivery, compliance, and operational excellence across all programmes.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a highly organised and proactive PMO to support the successful delivery of multiple projects across the business. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in a fast‑growing SME where you’ll have real visibility, influence, and the chance to shape how projects are delivered in a regulated, high‑impact environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Supporting Project Managers in planning, tracking, and delivering projects
• Maintaining project schedules, documentation, and governance processes
• Producing clear, accurate reports and dashboards for senior leadership
• Tracking risks, issues, and dependencies across multiple programmes
• Coordinating project meetings, reviews, and action logs
• Supporting resource planning and highlighting capacity constraints
• Ensuring compliance with defence, quality, and audit requirements
• Creating a Product Initiation process (PID)

What We’re Looking For

• Experience in a PMO, project support, or coordination role
• Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail
• Confidence working with data, reporting, and project tracking tools (e.g. Excel, MS Project)
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work across teams

Desirable (but not essential)

• Experience in defence, aerospace, or other regulated industries
• Knowledge of project methodologies such as APMP, PRINCE2 or Agile
• Experience with risk management or financial tracking

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a growing business where your work has real impact
• Gain exposure to complex, high‑value defence projects
• Work closely with senior leadership and experienced project professionals
• Opportunity to develop your career within project management and PMO

Security Requirements

• Must be a British National with no dual nationality due to security clearance requirements.
• Eligible to obtain UK security clearance to SC level.

Benefits

• Company events
• Company pension
• Health and wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• Sick pay
• Holidays: 25 days (combination of compulsory shutdown and floating days)