Project Management Specialist

Job Title: Project Management Specialist

Location: Scotstoun. Hybrid 2 - 3 days a week onsite

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Referral Bonus: £1000

Grade: GG11

You’re expected to have completed 12 months in role prior to applying for an advertised vacancy and you should also discuss the internal opportunity with your line manager to ensure sustained business continuity and to further support your career development.

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The Information Management & Technology (IM&T) Project Management specialist leadscomplex business and technical projects that drive organisational transformation. Managing projects up to £7m, the role applies project management best practice to deliver change, provide guidance to senior stakeholders, oversee governance, risks and project performance, and support the successful delivery of the wider IM&T portfolio.

Core duties

• You will define and lead project delivery strategy, governance, and best practice across the IM&T portfolio, ensuring effective controls and successful outcomes
• Act as the key interface between business and technical stakeholders, aligning scope, requirements, and delivery to agreed objectives
• You will provide leadership, mentoring, and oversight to project managers, ensuring projects are delivered on time and to quality standards
• Ensure you lead project planning and financial management activities, including estimation, scheduling, business cases, budgeting, forecasting, and performance tracking
• Own governance, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement activities, ensuring compliance, robust documentation, and consistent project assurance

Essential Skills

• APM PMQ (or equivalent project management qualification) or demonstrable experience delivering complex projects
• Proven experience leading high-value, complex projects and programmes, always delivering successfully
• Experience working within large, matrix organisations, ideally within IM&T, engineering, manufacturing or other technical environments
• Considerable project managementexpertise, including governance, planning, financial management and the delivery of multiple complex change initiatives.

The IM&T Project ManagementTeam

Join a team at the forefront of digital transformation, delivering innovative technology solutions that support business and manufacturing operations. Working on high-profile projects, you'll collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, influence strategic change, and help shape the future of digital delivery across the business.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.

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 applicantsmust as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicantsmust 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: 30th October 2026

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