Assistant Project Manager

Job Title: Assistant 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 particular role.

Salary: From £40,748, depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Assisting the Project Leader to define and implement Engineering Change Requests (ECR’s) on Dreadnought
• Liaising with Planning, Build and Test & Commissioning to ensure data integrity for data metric reporting
• Providing detailed updates on ECR’s linked to key milestones so they can be escalated quickly
• Managing contracted deliverables and obtaining sign-off with the customer
• Collaborating with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
• Undertaking cross training on all Acceptance use

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Demonstrable Project Management experience
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel
• Excellent stakeholder management experience

Desirable:

• Understanding of Configuration Control and Acceptance
• Recognised Project Management qualification (e.g. APMQ or Prince2) or willingness to work towards

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Acceptance team:

This is a rare chance to be part of the exclusive team specializing in this work for the programme. You’ll take on an active role during the Submarine’s launch and provide essential support throughout the sea trials. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

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 at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 17th March 2025.

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.

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