Senior Project Professional – Delivery

Job Title: Senior Project Professional – 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: From 40,748 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Identifying, assessing, and managing project risks using appropriate PM methods and tools, agreeing on the approach with stakeholders, preparing realistic plans, and tracking activities against the schedule while managing stakeholder involvement
• Consolidating expertise from multiple sources, including third party experts, to provide coherent advice to further organisational objectives, supporting and promoting the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within the organisation
• Identifying and collaborating with key stakeholders to undertake intermediate problem-solving, typically based on prior experience
• Managing the full project lifecycle to ensure that, over time, the needs of customers/users continue to be met, and that financial and other benefits are achieved
• Performing intermediate project reporting and scheduling tasks to ensure timely updates and adherence to project timelines
• Undertaking supervisory responsibilities for a small team

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Recognised Project Management professional qualification or currently working towards it
• Strong Stakeholder Management experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications, specifically Excel
• Demonstrable experience using Project Management toolsets, specifically SAP, Team Center, Microsoft Project and Gantt charts

Desirable:

• Knowledge of Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

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 Test & Commissioning Enablement team:

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the Test & Commissioning Enablement Team where you will support Engineering projects through enabling the test and commissioning department across programmes and liaising with various functions to ensure the equipment we create is enabled according to schedule for upcoming tests. This is a great opportunity to work within an independent role where your forward-thinking attributes are encouraged, and problem-solving skills are acknowledged, thereby having the ability to directly shape and influence. Furthermore, the team support all submarine programmes and will provide great exposure across the business. 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: 5th 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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