Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager - Toolset Capability

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

Salary: £41,361+ depending on experience

What you'll be doing 

• Supporting the coordination of Toolset Cyber Security activities
• Scoping/estimating/scheduling Security Assessment plan, resolve blockers, monitor time/resources required to carry out plan and revise Basis Of Estimates (BOEs) for tasks
• Supporting the coordination of Application Portfolio Management activities
• Aligning plans/schedules with IM&T to capture/estimate Engineering resource requirements
• Developing process/mechanism for coordinating Application Inventory changes i.e. approvals, informing stakeholders via a Change Board
• Supporting the Engineering Toolset Capability Lead to define requirements for Toolset Metrics and Dashboards

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

• Proven ability to manage and influence diverse stakeholders
• Skilled in using project management tools to track progress, manage dependencies, and report performance metrics
• Expertise in creating, maintaining, and project schedules using recognised scheduling tools
• Ability to apply estimating methodologies and tools to support budget development, forecasting, and decision-making

Desirable

• Understanding of change management principles, including stakeholder engagement, communication planning, and transition support
• Experienced in identifying, assessing, and managing project risks and opportunities throughout the project lifecycle

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 Toolset Capability team:

This role is an exciting opportunity to implement increased structure and consistency to an existing ad-hoc process. The understanding of our engineering toolsets is evolving, and there's a need for it to be managed in a single source of truth – with effective processes to ensure the data is complete and up to date.

We're looking for an enthusiastic individual, who can work at pace to coordinate and guide a number of technical stakeholders. They must have very good organisational skills, be able to digest lots of different sources of information and be able drive/monitor actions. This role would be perfectly suited to a motivated PM who needs an opportunity to systemise and metricate a complex activity.

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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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.

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 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: 6th November 2024

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.