Deputy Project Manager

Job Title: Deputy Project Manager

Location: Portsmouth Naval Base

Salary: From £60,000 + depending on skills and experience plus bonus scheme

What you’ll be doing:

• Driving project success, overseeing all aspects of project delivery, ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards
• Managing resources effectively, optimising resource allocation and address operational challenges to ensure smooth project execution
• Ensuring compliance, adhering to all relevant procedures and best practices for effective project management
• Managing LCM responsibilities, phase reviews and approvals, ensuring alignment with guidelines, selecting review chairs and assessors, maintaining up-to-date documentation, and incorporating lessons learned

Your skills and experiences:

• Possess in-depth knowledge and experience in project management methodologies, tools, and best practices
• Demonstrates a proven ability to analyse and resolve complex project-related challenges, using established procedures and innovative solutions
• Exhibits a strong understanding of the business environment and commercial practices relevant to project delivery
• Communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders, using diplomacy and persuasion to achieve project goals
• Ability to make sound decisions based on available information, policies, and procedures, seeking guidance from senior management when needed
• Actively seeks opportunities to enhance project performance and contribute to the overall success of the organisation
• University level education or professional qualifications gained through industry
• Professional PM Qualification (APM or PMI as examples) or years of practical experience gained through application of Project Management
• LCM Assessor is desirable

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 Warship Support team:

Experience the impact of your work every day. The Warship Support team operates at the heart of our Naval Base repairing front line warships, ensuring you see your achievements come to life on Royal Navy vessels. You will be making a real difference for our UK defence, by helping those who serve and protect us.

To guarantee successful outcomes in accordance with agreed-upon customer requirements, as the deputy project manager you will lead and oversee a large project.

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: 25th February 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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