Are you a seasoned SC or DV cleared Project Planner with a proven track record in major construction and infrastructure projects? Do you have experience working with NEC contracts and contractor programmes? If so, this is an excellent opportunity to join a forward-thinking client organisation, providing pivotal planning support for a major capital project. Evodia Limited is supporting a transformation consultancy in finding an experienced Senior Project Planner to deliver expert planning and scheduling across a logistics and infrastructure programme. The role offers a competitive salary of circa £70,000 to £80,000, with hybrid working options from London and immediate start.

What you will be doing:

• Develop and Maintain Integrated Schedules using Microsoft Project or similar software, covering all project phases from design to handover.
• Lead Critical Path Analysis and schedule performance forecasting, ensuring timelines are robust, realistic, and integrated.
• Coordinate Inputs from contractors, consultants, and internal teams, ensuring dependencies and milestones are accurately represented.
• Monitor Progress, identify slippage, risks, and develop mitigation strategies.
• Review Contractor Programmes to challenge assumptions and support scope and schedule recovery plans.
• Support Project Controls activities such as schedule risk analysis, change control, and programme reporting to senior stakeholders.

What we’re looking for:

• Significant experience working on major construction projects (valued over £100m), particularly with NEC contracts.
• Proven ability to develop complex, integrated schedules with critical path analysis and schedule forecasting.
• Experience working under security clearances (SC or DV) for sensitive or government-related projects.
• Strong skills in Microsoft Project or equivalent project controls software.
• Relevant qualifications such as APM, PMI, or other project controls certifications.
• Experience in multi-disciplinary teams, ideally within infrastructure, defence, or government sectors.

Desirable qualities:

• Experience with projects exceeding £500m and extensive government or defence projects.
• Knowledge of secure environments and operational project delivery.
• Additional planning qualifications such as PMI-SP, ChPP, or government project accreditations.

Why apply?

This is a rare opportunity to bring your planning expertise to a high-profile programme with real impact. You'll work directly with senior stakeholders, contribute to complex decision-making, and help shape the successful delivery of critical infrastructure. If you're ready to take on a challenging role with a leading client and meet the criteria, we invite you to apply. Evodia Limited acts as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy, committed to transparency and support throughout the recruitment process. Join a team where your skills will make a difference in some of the most significant projects in the UK’s infrastructure landscape.

This is a permanent role that offers the chance to lead high-stakes projects, working on government-approved Data at Rest encryption solutions. If you have 10+ years of domain experience, a solid background in C++ or C along with embedded systems, RTOS, or firmware, and a desire to shape secure, resilient software architectures, this could be the opportunity for you.

What’s involved?

• Driving engineering excellence: You will oversee the entire software development lifecycle, ensuring implementation of robust governance and quality standards.
• Technical leadership and hands-on delivery: Allocating around 80% of your time to project execution, you’ll lead detailed architecture design, implementation, and verification activities, supporting complex, secure systems.
• Team development: Mentoring, coaching, and supporting engineers' growth — fostering a collaborative culture and skills development across multidisciplinary teams.
• Supporting secure, high-integrity software development: With an emphasis on high-assurance standards, your expertise will help maintain system robustness and security compliance.

What are we looking for?

• Experience & Education: Over 10 years in software engineering, with a degree in Software Engineering or similar.
• Technical skills: Experience defining processes, toolsets, and implementing engineering governance; proficiency in C/C++ for embedded and real-time systems; familiarity with secure coding standards like RUST is desirable.
• Security clearance: Must be a UK sole national, with the current or the ability to obtain UK SC security clearance.

If you’re ready to contribute your expertise to critical security technologies and lead the charge in advanced satellite communications, we welcome your application. Evodia Limited is here to support your career move into this impactful and rewarding role.

Your Next Challenge

As the senior technical authority, you will oversee the entire hardware lifecycle — from detailed electronic architecture design to seamless manufacturing handovers. Working closely with systems engineering, you’ll champion engineering excellence by defining and refining processes and toolsets for PCB, FPGA, and Mechanical disciplines. Your expertise will be instrumental in delivering secure digital solutions to support government and defence initiatives globally. This role balances technical leadership with hands-on project delivery, with approximately 80% focused on execution and 20% on team mentorship and governance. You’ll provide guidance on high-speed digital board design, FPGA integration, and thermal management, ensuring our client’s products meet the highest standards of quality and security.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and define hardware development processes across PCB, FPGA, and Mechanical disciplines.
• Oversee architectural design, schematic capture, and high-speed digital PCB layout, focusing on interfaces like PCIe, DDR, Ethernet, and SerDes.
• Drive validation and verification strategies to guarantee robust hardware performance and security.
• Ensure quality governance through stage-gated reviews and design metrics across multidisciplinary teams.
• Support new product introductions, resolving technical challenges and ensuring smooth transitions to manufacturing.
• Mentor and develop hardware engineers, fostering a supportive, collaborative culture.

What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years’ experience in hardware engineering and electronic design within high-security environments, ideally in defence, aerospace, or military sectors.
• A strong background in defining and implementing processes using state-of-the-art tools for PCB, FPGA, and Mechanical disciplines.
• Proven expertise in high-speed digital design, including FPGA workflows involving PCIe, DDR, Ethernet, and SerDes interfaces.
• Experience with design for manufacturing (DFM), design for testing (DFT), and thermal management.
• Degree in Electronic Engineering or related field.
• UK SC security clearance, or the willingness and eligibility to obtain SC clearance.

Desirable Skills

• Familiarity with programmable logic integration in defence or high-assurance projects.
• Experience designing for manufacturing, particularly within the defence or aerospace sectors.
• A proactive mentor who inspires engineering teams to excel without micromanagement.

Why Join?

This role offers a rewarding path for experienced hardware engineers looking to lead high-profile projects within a respected, secure environment. The company is large, stable, and committed to ongoing innovation and development. Salary is negotiable depending on experience, with the possibility of flexible working arrangements. If you’re passionate about leading hardware development for defence and high-security systems and meet the above criteria, we’d love to hear from you. 

Successful candidates must be eligible and willing to obtain a UK Developed Vetting (DV) clearance.

The Role

As the Principal Systems Engineer, you'll define and lead the technical architecture of cutting-edge security devices used in critical government and defence networks. Working alongside talented engineers from electronics, FPGA, software, and mechanical disciplines, you’ll guide product phases from concept through to deployment, providing strategic insight and technical oversight.

What you will do:

• System Architecture & Definition: Serve as the technical authority for product features, system behaviour, and design trade-offs.
• Requirements Engineering: Lead requirements elicitation and management with tools like IBM DOORS, ensuring clarity across all engineering domains.
• Engineering Leadership: Guide development teams, identify risks early, investigate root causes, and drive resolution.
• Lifecycle & Qualification: Oversee verification, validation, and environmental qualification processes, ensuring compliance and readiness for customer acceptance.
• Bids & Estimates: Support commercial teams with detailed engineering estimates for bids and proposals.
• Customer Interaction: Engage directly with defence clients to refine requirements and confirm the end product aligns with operational needs.

Ideal Candidate

You’ll bring:

• 7+ years’ experience in defence, aerospace, or space sectors, developing physical electronic/software products.
• A relevant degree (Engineering, Electronic Design, Physics, or similar).
• A solid track record in delivering complex solutions within the systems engineering lifecycle, including requirements management, architecture, and verification.
• Proficiency with system design languages such as SysML or UML, and techniques like use case analysis and trade studies.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to negotiate technical requirements confidently with defence customers.
• British nationality and eligibility for UK DV clearance or current clearance status.

Desirable extras include experience with defence standards (e.g., DEF STAN, MIL-STD), NCSC CAPS assurance, and estimates for bid activities.

What Our Client Offers

A competitive salary package which is negotiable based on experience, within an organisation that drives innovation and high performance by fostering an environment of trust, belonging and safety, where every employee has a voice and is empowered to bring their authentic self to work.

Next Steps

If this opportunity aligns with your background and aspirations, we welcome your application. At Evodia Limited, we’re committed to a transparent process and supporting you throughout every stage of your journey. We look forward to hearing from driven, skilled professionals eager to contribute to vital projects in secure communications and satellite technology.

About the Role

This is a permanent position based in Farnborough, Hampshire, with the flexibility of hybrid working, spend around two days per week onsite. As a key member of the Data at Rest leadership team, you'll turn strategic ambitions into tangible results, driving growth and delivering high-quality projects within a secure and dynamic environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Collaborate closely with sales and business development teams to identify new opportunities and grow revenue across government and defence programs.
• Lead and manage a team of project and account managers, establishing best delivery practices and fostering a culture of transparency and agility.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate programmes to ensure strategic alignment and operational success.
• Manage programme schedules, budgets, and resources efficiently, ensuring projects meet targets and quality standards.
• Maintain strong stakeholder relationships, including clients, partners, and internal teams, keeping all parties informed of progress and outcomes.
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and standards such as RAIDO, embedding change management principles across the project portfolio.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will possess:

• 3+ years' experience in a business development or sales role related to defence, government, or secure communications.
• Between 3-5 years’ project or programme management experience within a technical environment, with proven capabilities in leading teams and large-scale projects.
• Qualified to APMP or Prince2 Practitioner (or equivalent) standards.
• Understanding of MoD or secure communications programmes.
• UK nationality, willing and able to obtain UK DV security clearance.

Desirable attributes include strong relationship-building skills, technical leadership experience, and familiarity with MS Office tools including MS Project.

Why Apply?

This role offers a unique chance to work at the forefront of secure communications in defence, with the opportunity to influence high-profile projects and collaborate with top-tier clients. The salary is negotiable based on experience, reflecting the importance and seniority of the role.

Next Steps

If you’re ready to embrace a challenging yet rewarding leadership role in a secure environment with a market-leading company, we encourage you to get in touch. Evodia is dedicated to supporting you throughout the recruitment journey and ensuring a transparent, professional process.

We look forward to hearing from talented professionals passionate about advancing secure communications within the defence sector.

What You’ll Be Doing

Reporting directly to the Programme Director, you’ll oversee the full lifecycle of ambitious projects in the secure communications domain. Your leadership will ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest standards of quality. Managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams, you'll coordinate across various functions, fostering collaboration and clarity. Your excellent communication skills will help build strong relationships, both internally and with clients, ensuring customer satisfaction and project growth.

• Prepare and present project reports: scheduling, financials, risk assessments
• Manage stakeholders internally and externally
• Coordinate cross-departmental working and matrix management
• Run internal and customer progress meetings
• Effort estimation, resource allocation, and scheduling
• Identify and manage RAID logs, change control processes
• Contribute to whitepapers, bids, and proposals, providing content, scheduling, and cost insights

What We’re Looking For

Essential criteria:

• 3–5 years of project management experience in a technical or engineering environment
• Qualified to APMP or PRINCE2 Practitioner (or equivalent)
• UK national with current, or the ability to obtain, DV clearance
• Sound knowledge of project management methodologies

Desirable skills:

• Strong relationship-building capability
• Understanding of MoD projects and secure communications
• Proficiency in MS Office, especially MS Project

What We Offer

This is an excellent chance to contribute to impactful projects within a large, forward-thinking organisation. The role offers a negotiable salary, reflective of your experience and expertise, along with the opportunity to work in a dynamic, supportive environment where your skills truly matter.

Next Steps

If you meet the above criteria and are eager to progress your career in a challenging and rewarding setting, we invite you to apply. At Evodia Limited, we value transparency and professionalism in our recruitment approach, supporting you every step of the way.

Our client is committed to diversity and inclusion, welcoming applications from all qualified candidates.

We look forward to helping you take the next step in your project management career.