Program Assurance Manager

Vacancy: Program Assurance Manager

Location: Royston or Brimsdown

Job Family: Project Management

The Program Assurance Manager plays a critical supporting role in ensuring PGMS capital projects deliver value for PGMS and JM. The primary objective of this role is to act as the Assurance Authority to confirm to PGMS Board that projects are suitably prepared and conditioned with tolerable risk for ongoing funding approvals. This role will guide a portfolio of projects per year of medium sized nature and circa. £100 m of Capital requests over a 3 year period. The role will work across PGMS sites globally and will be expected to coach site staff and Senior Management on project execution practices to JM and Industry standards.

This role will also support identification of global PGMS and JM improvements to share and incorporate into ongoing project delivery to speed up JM's growth projects. This secondary function will ensure transformation opportunities are leveraged throughout the wider organisation and accelerating the capital engineering learning globally.

Johnson Matthey, a FTSE 250 organisation, is a global leader in sustainable technologies specialising in catalysis, precious metal products, chemicals and process technology. With operations in over 30 countries, we employ more than 12,600 people. We have more 200 years of success behind us; be part of the next stage of our growth journey and help maintain our reputation as one of the most admired organisations in our field. Our unique culture and people give us competitive advantage and will ensure our success for years to come. You can be part of that success story.

Your responsibilities:

• Recommend to senior management, PGMS board and wider stakeholders that projects, programmes, and portfolios will meet its business goals, objectives, and requirements, applying risk-based methodologies to improve applications, recommend or deny Stage Gate approvals.

• Liaise with global functional leaders in Engineering, Procurement, HSE, Project Management, Construction, Technology Experts and Site Management to ensure standardised approaches and best practice is being coached and used across the PGMS sites globally.

• Keep accurate records of Stage Gate reviews, make recommendations, and track close-out of those recommendations to approve Stage Gate applications. Provide justification to the senior management for why the project is suitable for funding applications, or rejected to include support for the areas that the site teams may need additional coaching.

• Utilise and improve both global and PGMS governance and assurance to enable success of the requested projects at each of the sites, and the sites portfolios are suitably identified, developed.

• Work with site project teams so that project assurance process is a systematic way to ensure that all stakeholders are aligned to achieve PGMS capital goals. Identifying the scope and timing of reviews that are appropriate to project size, complexity, risk profile and business priorities. Coach site capital teams and site leadership in the effective implementation of assurance for their projects, including project self-verification, functional reviews and connecting the sites with wider communities of practice across JM.

• Ensure that lessons learned in project assurance reviews are captured and fed in to PGMS Capital Engineering Team, working across PGMS and JM to ensure continued improvement and development of the project lifecycle and delivery process.

• Share best practices and lessons learned with PGMS Capital Engineering and Site Capital teams.

• Conduct the Stage Gate process and support reviews with functional experts, site and project teams, review projects to ensure that they are ready for Stage Gate. That documentation and conditions are in place for project success, with identified outcomes.

• Support the control of projects into PGMS business evergreen portfolio, by analysing project requests against PGMS business targets and strategies.

• Carry out deep-dive reviews for specific projects, identify deficiencies, work with sites project teams and wider JM organisation to resolve in a proactive manner for successful progress of the project.

• Develop capability and competence strategy across PGMS sites.

Requirements for the role:

• Extensive experience working in a project delivery environment in a hazardous or regulated industry and be a Chartered Engineer or Chartered Project Manager with extensive multi-functional experience.

• Candidates must have demonstrated experience working across the whole lifecycle of projects from project initiation to mechanical completion and plant start up. Typical project values of £1-10 m of multi discipline engineering projects.

• Have in depth knowledge/experience of project methodologies and delivery approaches in a formal stage gate process and influencing JM senior management and functional heads.

• Expert understanding of project execution planning, principles and governance along with industry practice of working with engineering, and subcontractor companies.

• Have experience and understand of procurement and contracting strategies and processes, both from an internal and external prospective to recommend and support development of PGMS contracts for approval at the global contract assurance board.

• Have experience with multi-discipline engineering, hazard studies, and their deliverables, and outcomes. This includes, safety, product and/or quality and the impact of the finished solution or service on the engineering, safety, social, physical, and economic environment.

• Have experience working within an engineering environment, with a good understanding of engineering principles.

How you will be rewarded:

We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package including bonus, excellent pension contributions and 25 days annual leave (varies for shift-based roles).

At JM, an inclusive culture is integral to our values and ambitions for the future. We are committed to ensuring that everyone can bring their full self to work and thrive in their career. Welcoming everyone to JM, regardless of their unique characteristics, experiences or thoughts allows us to bring many different voices and experiences together to tackle the world's biggest challenges.

Being truly inclusive means that all colleagues feel valued for their differences, views and contributions, and feel a sense of belonging at JM.

Johnson Matthey is open for discussion on part time, job share and flexible working patterns.

Closing date for applications: This job advertisement will be posted for a minimum of 2 weeks; early application is advised.

For any queries or should you have any accessibility requirements, please contact GlobalRecruit@matthey.com who will work with you to implement suitable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. All conversations are treated in the strictest of confidence and we would appreciate your feedback to ensure we can provide an accessible and enjoyable recruitment process.

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How to apply:

If you have the necessary skills and experience to join our team, please apply online. For any queries or should you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application please let your recruiter know when they contact you.

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