Principal Work, Jobs in Usk (with Salaries)

Principal Delivery Manager
OFGEM —Cardiff
- £63,443 - £86,547 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Presentation skills
- Leadership
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Flexible schedule
5d
Principal Planner
LRG —Cardiff
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Analysis skills
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
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Principal QA Engineer
Box UK —Cardiff
- £55,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- APIs
- Agile
13d
H&S Assistant Officer
Gwent Police —Blaenau Gwent
- £27,204 - £29,856 a year
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
- SharePoint
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
5d
Stress Engineer
Safran —Cwmbran
- Full-time
- Project management
- Python
Principal Scientist
Simbec-Orion —Merthyr Tydfil
- Full-time
- Doctoral degree
- Maintenance
- Master's degree
13d
Species Recovery Officer
Forestry England —Coleford
- £33,854 a year
- Part-time
- English
- Free parking
- Employee discount
1d
Senior Research Scientist
Simbec-Orion —Merthyr Tydfil
- Full-time
- Microsoft Excel
- Data analysis skills
- Laboratory experience
13d
Digital Transformation Consultants
i3Works —Bristol
- £45,000 - £80,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Business development
- Continuous improvement
- Agile
- Annual leave
- Life insurance
Newyddiadurwr - Newyddion Ni
BBC —Cardiff
- £27,600 - £32,000 a year
- Full-time
Principal Applications Engineer, PVD
KLA —Newport
- Full-time
- Doctoral degree
- Master's degree
- Analysis skills
- Annual leave
Senior/Principal/Associate Ornithologist
AECOM —Cardiff
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
1d
Principal QA Engineer
Box UK Limited —Cardiff
- Up to £55,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- APIs
- Agile
- Employee discount
- Life insurance
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Associate Principal , Architect
Arcadis —Cardiff
- Project management
- Bachelor's degree
- Leadership
Senior - Principal Consultant: Project Delivery Management (UKIC)
i3Works —Bristol
- Hybrid work
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Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council —Blaenau Gwent
- £13.45 an hour
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Lead Operations Manager
BBC —Cardiff
- £65,400 - £87,133 a year
- Full-time
- Analysis skills
- Leadership
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Principal Chemist
Ecolab Inc. —Llantrisant
- Full-time
- Doctoral degree
- Supervising experience
- Project management
Principal Process Engineer, Etch
KLA —Newport
- Full-time
- Doctoral degree
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Senior Product Manager
BBC —Cardiff
- Up to £70,000 a year
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Principal Delivery Manager

OFGEM -
Cardiff

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Job details

Permanent | Full-time
£63,443 - £86,547 a year
5 days ago

Benefits

Annual leave
Company pension
Flexible schedule

Qualifications

Programme management
Presentation skills
Scrum
Certified Scrum Master
Leadership
Communication skills

Full job description

Details

Reference number

466580

Salary

£63,443 - £86,547

National £63,443 - £80,425, London £67,975 - £86,547

Please ensure that you read the Pay and Reward information for civil service and internal colleagues before applying.

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

Job grade

Grade 6

Level 3

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

Delivery & Schemes

Type of role

Digital
Information Technology

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share

Number of jobs available

Location
About the job
Benefits
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Location

Successful candidates may be based in any of our office locations Cardiff, Glasgow or London. We especially welcome applicants from Cardiff and Glasgow.

About the job

Job summary

Ofgem is working at the forefront of the fight to deliver smarter, faster and more effective digital services, helping combat the challenges of a rapidly changing energy sector while driving innovation that supports consumers and Net Zero. Were looking for a Principal Delivery Manager to join us and provide strategic leadership across a complex digital portfolio, shaping how critical products and services are delivered across the organisation.

Ofgem is Great Britains independent energy regulator. Were at the forefront of change across the energy sector, driving toward Net Zero whilst protecting energy consumers, especially vulnerable people.

Were offering a permanent opportunity with the chance to influence the direction of digital delivery within an organisation undergoing significant transformation. This is a highly visible leadership role where you will shape ways of working, drive delivery excellence and help create the conditions for multidisciplinary teams to thrive. You'll play a key role in ensuring digital products and services deliver meaningful outcomes for both the organisation and the consumers it serves.

Working across a diverse portfolio, you'll have the opportunity to influence strategy, strengthen delivery capability and embed approaches that create lasting impact. The role combines leadership, operational oversight and organisational influence, offering the chance to shape how digital delivery evolves while contributing to some of our most important priorities.

Were looking for someone with significant leadership experience in delivery or programme management, with the ability to guide complex work across multiple teams and priorities. Youll bring a track record of building high-performing delivery functions, driving continuous improvement and creating clear, effective frameworks that enable successful outcomes at scale.

Alongside the opportunity to work on nationally important programmes, you'll benefit from a flexible and inclusive working environment where collaboration, innovation and professional excellence are highly valued.

We have a critical purpose to transform and strengthen digital delivery. Join us in helping combat complexity, improve organisational effectiveness and ensure the digital products and services underpinning Britains transition to a cleaner, fairer and more secure energy future are delivered successfully.

Read on and find out more.

Job description

Key Responsibilities

To support the team deliverables and utilise your expertise to ensure successful outcomes across team and collaborating teams:

Lead the Delivery Management community of practice, build capability and continuous improvement in delivery frameworks and professional development.
Lead and manage the delivery management team, recruiting the right people with the right skills to successfully deliver products and services for the portfolio.
Line manage and develop the delivery management team(s) to deliver consistently high performance against objectives, provide pastoral care and create a career development pathway.
Work with Programme Managers and leads of other practices to promote effective cross-functional delivery.
Coach Delivery Managers in planning practices, drive continuous improvement to Digital Delivery planning processes and identify dependencies across the portfolio.
As a member of the Digital Leadership team support the creation and implementation of the digital delivery strategy for D&S.
Provide Assurance on the effective delivery of projects and services through Agile ways of working, overseeing and enabling delivery managers to operate as Scrum Masters where appropriate, and ensuring Agile ceremonies, controls and reporting meet Ofgem governance and commercial management requirements.
Work with the Senior Product Manager (Product Owner) and Delivery Managers to define the roadmap for any given product and support the team to break work down to stories they can deliver.
Track delivery through fortnightly sprints/monthly reporting and maintaining project highlight report.
Protect the team from outside distraction and make sure the team collaborates, communicates and focuses on mutually agreed priorities
Provide the Ofgem community with confidence in the effectiveness of Delivery Management, and support the organisation in maturing our practices in line with Government Digital Service (GDS) standards.
Escalate product risks and issues, removing barriers to delivery.
Lead and develop a team to deliver consistently high performance against objectives.

Key Outputs and Deliverables

Product portfolio reporting with delivery schedules clearly planned, communicated and tracked, including, risks, issues and decisions.
Ensure appropriate governance and Agile ceremonies e.g. sprint planning, retrospectives, show & tells / showcases.
A motivated and collaborative team who meet team and organisational objectives.
Frequent and iterative deployment and delivery using Agile approaches.
Effective communication within the digital teams, and business users.
Establish strong stakeholder relationships at all levels both internally and externally.
Ensure appropriate programme / project governance and reporting frameworks are documented and embedded to drive improvement across the portfolio.
Ensure programme / project delivery across the portfolio meets GDS standards.
Developing, planning and delivering work outcomes, including clear and transparent work objectives for Delivery Managers, milestones and success metrics.

Person specification

Essential Criteria

Demonstrable experience of operating at a senior level as a Delivery/Programme Manager that can be demonstrated by proven record of high performance and substantial achievements in past positions (Lead Criteria).
Demonstrable experience of leading a delivery management function, including oversight of multiple Delivery Managers, and establishing repeatable frameworks, standards and tooling to improve delivery maturity (Lead Criteria).
Expertise/capability in a related professional specialism, evidenced through an appropriate professional qualification - Agile Project and Delivery Management Certification (ICP-APM) Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM), or equivalent experience.
Experience managing complex, multi-workstream programmes with cross organisational dependencies, including budget management and forecasting.
Excellent stakeholder and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders, build alignment, and simplify complexity.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Seeing the Big Picture
Making Effective Decisions
Delivering at Pace

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

You will also be asked to complete a presentation during your interview. Details of the presentation will be provided in your invitation to interview.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £63,443, OFGEM contributes £18,379 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides .

Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes; 30 days annual leave after 2 years; Excellent training and development opportunities; The opportunity to join the generous Civil Service pension which also includes a valuable range of benefits; Hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office but is in review), flexible working hours and family friendly policies. Plus lots of other benefits including clean and bright offices based centrally, engaged networks and teams and an opportunity to contribute to our ambitious and important targets of establishing a Net Zero energy system by 2050. This exciting blend of professional challenge and personal reward identifies career opportunities at Ofgem as something to get excited about.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

When you press the Apply now button, you will be asked to complete personal details (not seen by the sift panel), your career history and qualifications.

You will then be asked to provide a 1250 word personal statement evidencing how you meet the essential skills and capabilities listed in the role profile. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within your supporting statement, how you meet each of the criteria listed in the role profile. In the event of receiving a large number of applications, an initial sift may take place on just the lead criteria indicated in the essential criteria.

The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected, you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found by [https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn].

At Ofgem, we expect our staff to carry out their roles with honesty, fairness and openness. They should follow the Civil Service code and be free from any influence or bias. We are committed to making sure interests are recognised, declared and managed appropriately so that we can fulfil our duties as an energy regulator. Our Conflicts of Interest policy outlines the types of interests Ofgem staff must declare before onboarding, and the rules they must follow throughout employment so that we can clearly demonstrate that our decisions are not influenced by private interests.

Please note, this role is being recruited to in Ofgem. During 2027, it is expected that this role will move department as part of the Warm Homes Plan. The home department or organisation will be confirmed during 2026. The move between departments will be managed in line with the relevant staff transfer regulations.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

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This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : Lewis Buckey
Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team

Email : [email protected]

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commissions Recruitment Principles. You have the right to complain if you feel there has been a breach of these Recruitment Principles.

In the first instance, you should raise the matter directly via [email protected]. If you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission, please visit their website.

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