Lead Pm&c Professional

**Lead PM&C Professional - Project Controls**
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**Submarines**

We serve and protect those who serve and protect us. Attracting and retaining the sharpest minds is essential for a globally competitive UK Submarines Business. Our aim is to recruit the very best talent. At BAE 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.

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**Our Submarines Business**

Our Submarines business has been safely delivering world class submarines to the UK Royal Navy for more than a century.

The Astute class will equip the Royal Navy with its largest and most capable generation of attack submarines. We are responsible for the design, build, test and commissioning of these state-of-the-art vessels. In total, seven boats will make up the fleet, each weighing a mighty 7,400 tonnes.

Dreadnought is the successor to the Vanguard class of nuclear deterrent submarines. We will deliver four submarines to the Royal Navy, with the first submarine entering service in the early 2030s. Dreadnought is widely considered to be one of the world's most complex engineering challenges.

We have sites in Barrow-in-Furness, Filton, Frimley, Ash Vale, Broad Oak and Weymouth, and we pride ourselves on employing the best professionals around. Join us and you'll be part of something important; something you can be proud of.

**Lead PM&C Professional
- Project Controls**

Would you like a new and exciting role in our Submarines team? We currently have a vacancy for a Lead PM&C Professional - Project Controls in our site in Barrow.

This is a new and exciting position on our Dreadnought programme and you will have the opportunity to shape this role whilst also developing yourself. You will be part of a team that is responsible for project management governance and assurance on the Dreadnought programme, ensuring that the programme follows project management processes and procedures at a corporate, business and programme level. This role will be within the assurance workstream of the team.

You will develop a deep knowledge of the Dreadnought programme and will also work with a wide range of stakeholders so the opportunity to develop knowledge and relationships gives this role holder fantastic career development opportunities within the programme or wider business.

**Your main responsibilities as a Lead PM&C Professional - Project Controls will involve**:

- Leading the coordination of audit reporting and management, action and investigation reporting and management, Process Improvement Requests (PIRs) and document reviews for all functions across the Dreadnought programme
- Undertaking audits on the Dreadnought programme to provide assurance of effective operation and compliance to process, standards and procedures
- Engaging with record owners to identify new records and ensure the currency of existing records on the Dreadnought Project Integration Record Retention Schedule (RRS)
- Being the escalation point of contact for the central Project Management Governance team in relation to Project Management documentation reviews, process confirmation reviews and Airsweb action status on the Dreadnought programme
- Leading the management of non-conformance and corrective action resolution with key stakeholders and process owners, action tracking and reporting and the production of Management Information to support the Programme Director's monthly review
- Attending all cross function and business level collaborative audit and assurance meetings representing the Dreadnought programme

**Your skills and qualifications**:
Essential
- Project Management professional with a good understanding of the Project Management disciplines
- Experience and understanding of managing projects
- Strong knowledge of project management governance and assurance
- APM qualification is essential or equivalent (Prince2 or MSP)

Desirable
- Defence Sector experience
- Experience of working on large complex programme
- Qualified Lead Auditor

**What we are looking for in you**:You should be a confident communicator who has strong presentation and high influencing skills.

**Location**:Barrow

**Salary**:Competitive

**Benefits**:
Our employees receive an excellent benefits package which includes a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. We also offer a range of additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and many local and nat