Project Manager – Delivery

Job Title: Project Manager – Delivery

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: £56,000 + depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading and managing the project team for the jigs and tools program, ensuring effective support for the submarines business
• Overseeing the management of complex, high-value jigs from inception to delivery, collaborating with the supply chain to ensure all customer requirements are met
• Ensuring fast turnaround and project delivery for low complex high volume jigs
• Leading and managing an integrated project team, co-ordinating/facilitating delivery via supply chain, quality and engineering ensuring successful delivery of the project
• Facilitating and leading escalation reviews, ensuring timely resolution of critical issues by coordinating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• Developing Project delivery plans and performance measures to support the programme
• Ensuring value for money and best for programme, schedule, cost and risk is managed end to end using risk and opportunity management

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Professional Project Management qualification or equivalent Project Delivery experience within a Construction or Engineering environment
• Excellent Stakeholder Management experience with the ability to guide and influence
• Demonstrable experience in leading and managing a team
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications and experience in Microsoft Project and Visio

Desirable:

• Experience of SAP and Teamcenter would be advantageous

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 Jig and Tool Project Delivery team:

A fast-paced delivery team, delivering a wide range of products of varying cost and complexity (from a standard jig and tool up to facility type deliveries inclusive of mechanical and electrical outfit) interfacing with multiple stakeholders/customers internally and externally, to ensure on time delivery of jigs and tools to the Dreadnought programme. This role will be the conduit between, Engineering, Supply chain, Logistics, Quality and Build, ensuring the customer receives on time delivery of products to cost and schedule. 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: 19th 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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