Date Posted:

2026-03-02

Country:

United Kingdom

Location:

Glenrothes, Fife

Position Role Type:

Hybrid

What You Will Do

The Raytheon UK Weapons team has a fantastic opportunity for an energetic and confident new team member to provide direction and management of a high performing Integrated Project Team.

Working within the Control Sections team, as part of the wider Advanced Products business unit, the successful candidate will execute and support a range of technically challenging high-profile projects. Establishing and growing effective relationships with both new and existing customers.

What You Will Learn

Success will require customer focused innovative thinking, forward planning, strong communication and an ability to react quickly to changes. As a valuable member of the Control Sections team this Project Management role is pivotal in delivering a New Product Introduction (NPI) Project. In addition, the role will also include identifying and securing new opportunities, working collaboratively with the wider company and creating an inclusive environment for the team to grow.

As part of the day-to-day activities the role requires delivery of the NPI project, ensuring on-time deliveries, customer satisfaction, and high-quality deliverables, as well as providing support and guidance to junior Project Managers to aid them in delivering against their challenging targets and goals. A key benefit of this role is you will have the opportunity to visit customers and suppliers both nationally and internationally.

As well as developing within the business, Raytheon UK also encourages its employees to be involved in one of our Employee Resource Groups. These groups are an integral part of our diversity and inclusion journey and key to maintaining a rich and diverse talent base. More details of the groups can be found online. We also encourage all employees to take advantage of five full days of volunteering leave to allow them to focus on social causes that impact their local community.

While the primary work location will be our Glenrothes and Livingston facilities, or a hybrid of home working, we actively support flexible working, and can discuss a solution to suit the needs of both the business and employee, to help balance busy lives.

Qualifications You Must Have

Below are both the Essential and Desirable candidate qualities. At Raytheon UK, our priority is culture: we are keen to hear from people with the right attitude, values and willingness to learn, therefore even if you feel you do not meet the majority of the qualities, we still encourage you to apply.

· Degree qualified in a technical, manufacturing or project management related discipline, or with equivalent non-academic experience. A recognized project management qualification is highly desirable.

· Experienced Project Manager with a successful track record in setting up and executing complex projects to schedule, budget and quality with P&L accountability.

· Demonstrated expertise in managing issues while bringing projects to successful completion within the cost and time requirements.

· Effective scope management and ability to understand and execute to customer requirements.

· Ability to make decisions and develop corrective actions based on interpretation of available project performance data and metrics.

· Experience in project financial management and reporting, ensuring a complete and accurate view is available on request.

· Experience in providing leadership and direction to multi-disciplined teams.

· Risk and Opportunity management, knowledge of qualitative and quantitative risk and opportunity management techniques and tools.

Qualifications We Prefer

· Experience of working in relevant domains

· Supportive, with the character to navigate sensitive and pressurised situations to overcome delivery challenges.

· Experience in capture and proposal management with a track record of preparing and submitting winning proposals.

· Effective stakeholder management including both customer interfacing and presenting to senior management.

· Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills with the ability to influence, persuade, lead and motivate teams, and produce / deliver reporting to; customers, suppliers and internal stakeholders, at all levels.

· Innovative and proactive problem solver – Anticipates and plans to mitigate risks.

· Able to engage with technical experts with credibility and understanding.

· Able to manage and work within agreed budgets, forecast cost to complete.

What we offer:

• Competitive salaries.

• 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)

• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)

• Company bonus scheme (discretionary).

• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension.

• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others.

• Enhanced sick pay.

• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave

Work Culture

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.

• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.

• A grownup flexible working culture that is output, not time spent at desk, focussed. More formal flexible working arrangements can also be requested and assessed subject to the role. Please enquire or highlight any request to our Talent Acquisition team to explore the flexible working possibilities.

• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year

For this role the successful hire will need to be a permanent UK resident and successfully complete a baseline (BPSS) security and background check, and either hold or be willing/eligible to obtain SC clearance.

RTX

Raytheon UK is a landed company and part of the wider RTX organisation. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, USA, but with over 180,000 employees globally across every continent, RTX provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide and comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon.

Supporting over 35,000 jobs across 13 UK sites, RTX is helping to drive prosperity. Each year our work contributes over £2.7bn to the UK economy and offers a wealth of opportunities to 4,000 suppliers across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We’re investing in all corners of the country, supporting 29,040 jobs in England, 3,040 in Northern Ireland, 1,900 in Scotland and 1,600 in Wales.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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