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Lead Project Professional – Delivery

Employer
BAE Systems
Location
Barrow in Furness, Cumbria
Salary
From £45,628 depending on skills and experience
Closing date
11 Feb 2025
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Job Title: Lead 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 £45,628 depending on skills and experience





What you’ll be doing:

Leading and managing a small project or a portion of a larger, more complex project, or provide support to a Project Manager or Head of Project with various aspects of managing a larger project
Identifying, assessing, and managing risks to project success, aligning project approaches with stakeholders by preparing realistic plans and tracking activities against the project schedule, adapting and applying project management practices to various situations, and developing these practices while guiding and instructing others in their implementation
Engaging in advanced problem-solving by leveraging prior experience, performing data analysis to present findings to senior stakeholders, and generating detailed project reports while mentoring team members in report preparation
Consolidating expertise from multiple sources, including third-party experts, to provide coherent advice that furthers organisational objectives, while supporting and promoting the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within the organisation
Overseeing the project lifecycle to ensure that customer and user needs are consistently met over time, while financial and other benefits are achieved
Leading a small team of project professionals, overseeing their delivery and performance, while providing mentorship, appraisals, and support for their development
Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

Recognised Project Management qualification or equivalent experience in Project Management within the Digital or Defence industry
Proficient in accurately analysing and interpreting data to inform data-driven decisions
Extensive experience in stakeholder management, with the ability to confidently guide and influence
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications
Desirable:

Experience using Visio
Experience or knowledge of the Submarine Enterprise
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 SSNA Programme Outcomes team:

Fantastic opportunity to work on the SSNA Programme, a multibillion-pound long term complex programme, working with stakeholders from across various organisations, a great chance to lead, shape and influence the direction of the programme through Outcome management, supporting and assisting across key strands in Programme Outcomes (including Outcomes and Scenario Modelling). 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: 11th 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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Company

Whether you’re an experienced professional or just stepping out into the world of work, we’ve a wide range of career opportunities available. Whether it's engineering, technology or project management, you'll be helping our customers protect what really matters.

Our engineers are redefining global defence. From concept to completion, they innovate cutting-edge products and services across the land, air, and sea.

Digital is our future, and our IT teams are at the heart of it. Developing, implementing, and supporting the cutting-edge systems that keep the world safe and our business evolving.

Opportunities - 

Working at BAE Systems brings immense opportunity. A long and fulfilling career, with first-class training and lifelong development available to all, with all the support to help make it happen.
 
The scale at which we operate generates endless opportunities to work across diverse roles, specialisms, cultures and countries. Achieving our growth ambitions needs everyone to own their role and find their unique place. This is a place to be curious, build your network, feel empowered and motivated by your team, sharing in our purpose to protect what matters and create a safer future. 

As many of our team can demonstrate, it’s possible to have multiple careers throughout your time here. There’s always the opportunity to retrain or reskill, whether through a formal programme or exploring our on demand virtual learning platform where you can explore tailored resources aligned to each of our functions.  

Learning beyond your role - 

We provide the opportunity to get involved in projects outside of your primary remit. We encourage you to seek a stretch project in which you’ll gain different experiences. With our huge portfolio of products and our multinational presence, there are opportunities to get involved in something different around every corner. Additionally, we encourage involvement in community projects, STEM initiatives and our employee resource groups, which all provide valuable learning and development experiences that you may not have access to in your day-to-day role.

Learning and resources -  

Lifelong learning is a reality at BAE Systems, and we’re proud to be a diverse, inclusive, and supportive employer, helping everyone build a career to be proud of, delivering our purpose of protecting those that protect us all.

Our resources are accessible at any time and from any device and consider inclusive learning styles by offering these through a variety of platforms such as videos, books, guides and structured virtual learning programmes through our digital learning platform.

Discover a career with meaning, in a place where you can make a real difference.

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