Planning, Monitoring & Control Trainee

Job Title: Trainee, Planning, Monitoring & Control Professional

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: £28,636

What you’ll be doing:

• Development and implementation of appropriately tailored Planning, Monitoring & Controls practices
• Supporting the development/production and analysis of business data by using Project tools, techniques, and processes
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders to ensure good quality baseline and current plans are in place and maintained with buy in from key stakeholders
• Producing and analysing scheduling data with accuracy, identifying, and forecasting trends to meet targets, and managing projects to time, cost, and quality
• Providing support to PM&C Managers to enable effective cost, planning and scheduling, risk, opportunity, and resource management
• Supporting the identification and management of risks and opportunities and learning from experience
• Working cross-functionally across the Project Management & Controls functional teams to contribute a coherent position on programme performance, risks, and opportunities

Your skills and experiences:

• Demonstrable PC literacy to an excellent standard through academic qualifications and/or examples of using IT packages such as Excel to accurately record, report, analyse, forecast and present data to all levels of the business.
• Have English and Maths – C and above at GCSE or level 2 functional skills
• Delivering and compiling presentations
• Willingness and ability to study to a Level 4 Qualification
• Experience of one or more in the following – budgeting, cost analysis, risk management, scheduling, planning or delivery within project work

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 Project team:

The Submarine business is looking to grow its existing Planning, Monitoring & Controls Professionals Workforce though a Development Scheme, the cohort is to start in September 2025. The Development Scheme will consist of:

• A one-week induction specialising in our product and the office environment
• Weekly day-release over a 6-12 month period, to study for a University Certificate in Project Controls through the University of Cumbria
• Additional face to face or online learning as appropriate for your role
• A permanent role within the business that will run alongside your studies

Once you have successfully completed scheme, you will continue to develop your competencies as a trainee. You will be required to apply your learning in role, develop your academic and business capabilities, and demonstrate excellent professional behaviours in order to facilitate your own personal development. This is an exciting opportunity to build your career within BAE Submarines. 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: 10th 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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