Project Control Manager – Fast Jet Support

Job Title: Project Control Manager – Fast Jet Support

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

Salary: £63,900 + depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead and manage a team of approx. 15 Project Control professionals, ensuring they are SQEP and furnished with a safe environment and correct toolsets to manage contracts with a value of c£520M+
• Operate as Project Control Manager ensuring project control function related outputs are within governance and the necessary activities are discharged as per the monthly cycle
• Ensure the team support the service/work package leads within the CAM to enable them to resource and deliver the scope of contracts placed on them
• Deliver an efficient and effective CAM project control service across the breadth of FJS operational activities, ensuring baselines are constructed in a way that accurately represents the work to be done and ensure robust measurement of performance
• Monitor and report project/programme performance for financial objectives to and on behalf of the CAM including Schedules, Milestones, ETCs, Risk and Opportunity
• Provide accurate reporting into the CAM and Contract teams which provide recommendations for actions in order to enable timely decisions to be made
• Lead the roll out of upcoming toolsets and process changes, ensuring the project control and business operations teams are sufficiently SQEP to use them

Your skills and experiences:

• Extensive knowledge of Project Controls, with experience of leading project control teams in the monthly cycle of updating the PCS, reporting and improving data quality
• Experience in the delivery of projects within the support arena
• The ability to manage a cross-contract portfolio of work, across a number of customers, with a number of priorities at any given time
• An experienced Team Leader with an ability to motivate and support employees, and identify and assist with training and development

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 Support & Service Delivery Unit – Shared Service

Within the Support and Services organisation, Fast Jet Support offers a complete suite of services that manage our customer’s aircraft and associated support products, to deliver safe, fit for purpose, and available aircraft.

During and following the production of an aircraft, a support contract is in place to keep it flying. This contract includes programmes of work which engineers trouble shoot and fix technical problems, provide and design replacement parts, technical information, training, upgrades to the aircraft and customer support.

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: 5th 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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