Project Manager

Job Description

Job title: Project Manager

Location: Barrow-In-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this role

Salary: From £50,000 dependent on experience

What you’ll be doing

• You will be leading all project phases and ensuring projects are delivered in accordance with company and departmental quality procedures
• Working within a diverse internal network of teams and external customers
• Collaborating with other team members & stakeholders to ensure success in your and your colleagues’ projects
• Developing project proposals, rough order of magnitude estimates for new requirements working collaboratively with the business and IM&T (Information Management and Technology)
• Delivering best value and customer satisfaction by managing relationships with a range of functions within the business
• You will be providing budgetary and financial control
• Developing project plans and identifying and managing the associated risk and dependencies of risk assessment
• Creating investments cases together with project sponsors and progressing these through the organisation funding processes
• Ensuring the successful mobilisation and handover from delivery

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• You will need to have experience within the end-to-end delivery of projects – from initial scoping through to delivery and handover
• Experience in project controls, project management, and change management (tools, techniques, and practices)
• You will be required to have experience of managing risks and mitigating them effectively

Desirable:

• Have confident in using and applying the early stages of project lifecycle – especially scoping, shaping and estimating new work
• Excellent stakeholder management experience and the ability to communicate with and influence complex internal & external stakeholder groups
• Have a good ability to manage financial data and budgets

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Project Management team:

The Product Fulfilment team is one of four Product Groups within the IM&T function. Product Fulfilment is responsible for providing the IT capabilities that are required by the core delivery functions of the business (such as Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Project Delivery), and those which support it (such as HR and Finance).

This is an exciting opportunity to join a new team, foster new and existing relationships across a large Enterprise and deliver Projects that improve the Build, Test & Commissioning of Submarines.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.”

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 28th May 2024

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.