Trainee Project Controller (PCDS)

Job Title: Air – Trainee Project Controller

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

Salary: £30,517

Are you seeking new challenges and personal growth? Do you feel like your skills and experience can transfer well into a new career?

The Air UK business is looking to grow its existing Project Controls workforce through a third cohort of our successful training programme – The Air UK Project Controls Development Scheme.

Throughout your time on the scheme, you will be placed into a project controls team in one of lines of business within the Air sector. Alongside this, you will study towards your Level 4 Certificate of Higher Education which will involve a day-release to college over a six month period. You will be applying your academic learning to the role whilst developing your business aptitude.

The Lancaster University led Level 4 qualification is sponsored by BAE Systems and will be gained through Blackpool at the Fylde College. The three modules you will study are taken from their Project Controls degree and these are Methods and Principles of Project Controls, Controlling the Project Environment and Principles of Planning and Scheduling Practice.

Once you have successfully obtained your qualification, you will continue in your role where you will build upon your new career at BAE Systems and have the opportunity to further your personal development.

The role will begin in September 2025, in line with the academic year. This is an exciting time to join the Air sector and become part our established group of project controllers, where you will be supported by various members of the business and encouraged to grow your skills and knowledge of the project controls disciplines.

For this role, you must be willing to travel to the Blackpool and The Fylde College campus one day per week for six months and possess a personal laptop to enable you to complete the assignments provided by the college in order to achieve your qualification. Supporting the development/production and analysis of business data by using project control and monitoring tools, techniques, and processes.

What you’ll be doing:

• Producing and analysing data with accuracy, identifying and forecasting trends to meet targets, and managing projects to time, cost and quality
• Providing support to project managers and control account managers to enable effective cost, planning and scheduling, risk, opportunity and resource management
• Supporting the identification and management of risk and opportunities and learning from experience

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Demonstrable IT skills to a proficient standard through academic qualifications and/or examples of using Microsoft Office to analyse and present data (e.g. Excel)
• Ability to study for a Level 4 Qualification, maintaining an appropriate balance between academic studies whilst working
• Hold a grade C / 4 GCSE in English and Maths subjects (You will be required to provide evidence of this at your interview in order to gain a place on this scheme)
• Evidence of professional behaviours; showing strong business acumen and demonstrative transferable skills from previous experience in other industries

Desirable:

• Understand the principles of planning and project controls processes

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 Skilled Personnel team:

You will be an essential part of a team where crucial project controls activities are carried out. The team you are assigned to will be supportive of your development and you will be empowered to carry out the necessary tasks and activities relevant for your grade/role.

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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