IT Project Manager

Job title: IT Project Manager

Location: Warton. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements. Please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: £54,793+ depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Liaising with Programme management, customer, IT Suppliers and project teams
• Takes full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation and satisfactory completion of medium scale projects or assists with larger complex projects/ programmes
• Provides effective leadership to the project team
• Managing the agreement of solution to a given business need, and the optimisation of solution cost vs benefit
• Assesses and Adopts appropriate project management methods and tools for type of project
• Manages the change control process and assesses and manages risks
• Ensures that realistic project plans are maintained and delivers regular and accurate communication to stakeholders
• Ensures project and product quality reviews occur on schedule and according to procedure
• Ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, and are formally accepted, by appropriate stakeholders
• Monitors costs, times, quality and resources used and takes action where performance deviates from agreed tolerances
• Work alongside and liaise with the Group IM&T partners and suppliers and related BAE Systems IT Services managing those relationships effectively
• Ensuring the project is compliant with IM&T Policies

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Previous Project Management experience with infrastructure related programmes
• Proven experience of managing quality, cost, and schedules
• Excellent stakeholder and customer management ability

Desirable:

• Scrum or Agile Methodology experience
• Project Management qualification such as Prince2, APM or equivalent experience

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 Engineering Systems Competency Centre team:

The ESCC team is responsible for the development and maintenance of critical engineering applications, ensuring that tools such as CATIA, CAD, and PLM systems remain within obsolescence boundaries while operating on green and yellow link networks. The team plays a key role in application-based IT projects, supporting the engineering community with robust and innovative solutions.

The ESCC team is well-established, highly knowledgeable, and extremely supportive. Their deep understanding of engineering processes ensures efficient application management and development. The team is also committed to professional growth, providing opportunities for career progression into senior project management roles, including training courses for formal PM qualifications.

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. 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: 22nd April 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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