Assistant Project Manager

Overview

As Assistant Project Manager in the Advanced Products team, you will support the end-to-end delivery of complex programmes, coordinating activities across IPTs, suppliers, and customers. You’ll help manage governance, risk, schedules and exports while ensuring compliance and high-quality deliverables. This role contributes to RTX UK’s growth by enabling successful project execution in a fast-paced, collaboration-focused environment. You will work closely with the Programme Manager to drive timely outcomes and customer satisfaction.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salaries
• 25 days holiday plus public holidays with buy/sell option
• contributory pension scheme (up to 10.5%)
• discretionary company bonus
• life assurance (6x salary)
• flexible benefits including health, dental, cycle to work

Responsibilities

• Support planning, execution and monitoring of programme activities to meet milestones
• Coordinate workflows, track progress and help resolve risks, issues and dependencies
• Prepare governance updates and decision-ready reports
• Raise and track shipment requests and coordinate logistics with customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders
• Support returns and repairs contracts coordination to ensure timely resolution and compliance
• Prepare and coordinate technology transfer documentation in line with export governance requirements
• Gather technical, commercial and operational inputs for bids and proposals with IPT
• Assist with cost and schedule performance input for EAC reviews and monthly programme reviews
• Create and maintain meeting minutes, action trackers and summaries for Programme Manager
• Prepare customer-facing schedule updates and communicate progress clearly to stakeholders

Key requirements

• Degree qualified in a technical, manufacturing or project management-related discipline or equivalent experience
• Experience delivering projects to schedule, budget and quality
• Ability to meet customer requirements
• Experience in project financial reporting
• Knowledge of risk and opportunity management techniques and tools
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills (Desirable)
• Experience in proposal preparation (Desirable)
• Effective stakeholder management (Desirable)
• Able to manage budgets and forecast costs to complete (Desirable)

• customer-focused
• strong communication
• resilience
• project management
• governance and reporting
• risk and opportunity management

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