Project Manager - OT / CNI

Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving transformational change within our clients.  We use proven technology, specialist teams and domain expertise to build solid technical foundations across platforms, data, and business applications.  We have a passion for using technology to solve business problems, working in partnership with our clients to help in achieving their goals. 

About the role: 

As a Project Manager, you will lead the delivery of complex initiatives within operational technology and critical national infrastructure environments. You will take responsibility for shaping delivery structures, defining scope, coordinating resources and ensuring progress against agreed timelines and governance frameworks. This role is suited to someone who brings structure and confidence to technical programmes, communicates effectively across business and engineering teams and is comfortable delivering in regulated, safety-critical contexts.

As the Project Manager, you will

• Drive end-to-end project delivery, ensuring scope, requirements, risks and dependencies are clearly defined and managed.
• Lead planning activities, oversee budgets and resource allocation, maintain delivery schedules and ensure reporting is accurate and aligned to governance expectations.
• Engage with a wide range of stakeholders across business, operational and technical teams to ensure alignment and decision clarity.
• Ensure risks, issues and change controls are identified early, managed effectively and communicated transparently.
• Establish strong working relationships with SMEs, Solution Architects, BAs and other delivery partners, ensuring that deliverables meet regulatory, cyber security and operational standards.
• Foster a disciplined and proactive delivery culture, providing regular updates to senior stakeholders and supporting readiness activities for deployment and transition into BAU.

Requirements

• Proven experience delivering projects within regulated, technical or complex enterprise environments, ideally within energy, utilities, CNI or operational technology domains.
• You will have strong planning, governance and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to navigate competing priorities and maintain delivery momentum.
• Experience managing budgets, schedules, risks and dependencies, and be comfortable working with multidisciplinary teams including architects, analysts, engineers and SMEs.
• Strong written and verbal communication is essential, along with the ability to provide clear reporting and facilitate effective decision-making.
• A solid understanding of project delivery frameworks and regulatory considerations is important, and experience working within OT, SCADA or ADMS-related environments is highly desirable.
• Professional certifications such as APM, PRINCE2 or Agile qualifications are beneficial but not essential.

Benefits

At Sword, our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development, and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success.  

We offer comprehensive benefits designed to support your professional development and enhance your overall quality of life.  In addition to a Competitive Salary, here's what you can expect as part of our benefits package: 

• Personalised Career Development: We create a development plan customised to your goals and aspirations, with a range of learning and development opportunities within a culture that encourages growth. 
• Flexible working: Flexible work arrangements to support your work-life balance.  We can’t promise to always be able to meet every request, however, are keen to discuss your individual preferences to make it work where we can. 
• A Fantastic Benefits Package: This includes generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes, an employee assistance programme, discounted cash plan and more…. 

At Sword we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, ensuring that all applicants receive fair and equal consideration for employment, regardless of whether they meet every requirement. If you don’t tick all the boxes but feel you have some of the relevant skills and experience we’re looking for, please do consider applying and highlight your transferable skills and experience. We embrace diversity in all its forms, valuing individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. Your perspective and potential are important to us. 

If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments. 

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