Project Manager

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Our Air Sector is currently going through a period of substantial growth due to an upsurge in demand for our products from domestic and overseas customers.If you’d like to make a difference and contribute to the delivery of this large, high value, technically complex and strategically important Sector, we have a position for a Project Manager based at Warton.

Air Engineering is responsible for some of the most advanced Air platforms in the industry, including Eurofighter Typhoon, Panavia Tornado, BAE Systems Hawk, Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, Future Combat Air System and FalconWorks, alongside a range of pioneering future programmes.

This is an opportunity to work at the forefront of Aerospace innovation, alongside experienced professionals who are passionate about delivering engineering excellence.

Your role and responsibilities as Project Manager

·Providing leadership and oversight across CAM related workstreams, ensuring clarity of expectations and maintaining an integrated view of activity, dependencies, risks and opportunities to support effective decision-making.

·Championing the application of change management processes, ensuring changes are appropriately assessed and embedded.

·Supporting business growth and new business activities.

·Leading the identification and articulation of resource requirements, working collaboratively with functional teams to inform workforce planning.

·Building and maintaining strong relationships with senior stakeholders, influencing decisions and providing clear insight into performance, risks and opportunities.

·Supporting continuous improvement, operational effectiveness, and achievement of organisational objectives.

·Managing and controlling our world-class engineering projects in collaboration with stakeholders from across all the business functions

·Driving improvement projects to enhance the way we work, deploying new approaches, tools and techniques.

Your skills and experience

• ·Extensive knowledge of Project delivery
• ·Ability to communicate at all levels of the organisation with strong stakeholder management experience
• ·Experience of managing a diverse team to deliver concurrent projects simultaneously in a challenging environment, requiring a flexibility in approach and ability to prioritise
• ·Degree/Equivalent in a PM / Technical discipline
• Location: Warton
• Grade: GG12

BAE Systems Air

If you’d like to make a real difference where it counts, BAE Systems is the place for you.

From keeping soldiers, sailors and pilots safe to helping countries prosper, from developing the next generation of supersonic aircraft to investing in the next generation of super-smart talent – at BAE Systems, we work together to give our customers an essential edge in protecting the things that really matter. Lives, livelihoods, ways of life.

As part of our Air team, you could be working at the edge of what is technologically possible, shaping the future to ensure our customers are ready to face challenges we cannot even imagine today. You could be developing and evolving the technologies that will defend the UK for generations to come and supporting our customers around the globe.

Join us and you’ll be encouraged and rewarded to excel in this important work. Apply your talent where it counts.

We are committed to supporting work life balance for all our employees and embrace a range of modern working practices, which aim to enhance flexibility for individuals whilst also enabling business performance. Flexibility provisions vary by role, but include; hybrid working arrangements, flexible working patterns and shift working.

We want to be the leading employer in defence and security for valuing diversity and inclusion. We care about difference in all forms and want to create an inclusive environment where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently under-represented within our industry, including women, people from ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to be a preferred home for veterans and reservists.

For more information on our Diversity & Inclusion work, please click here.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and who 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 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.

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