Assistant Project Manager

Job Title: Assistant Project Manager

Location: Barrow-in-Furness (Onsite)

Salary: From £40,748 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Providing day-to-day support to the Project Leader
• Running reports and metrics to identify and communicate trends to peers and senior management
• Identifying Risk, Quality and Scope management issues
• Monitoring cost and quality delivery to the Project
• Running system of work packs
• Enablement of work packages for execution by the Operations organisation
• Liaising with internal and external stakeholders
• Mentoring junior members of the team

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Project reporting and presenting experience within a Project Management environment
• Excellent Stakeholder Management skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel

Desirable:

• Recognised Project Management qualification (e.g. APMQ or Prince2)
• Experience using SAP
• Knowledge of Teamcenter

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 Central Yard Facility, Planning Production & Control (Mid) Enablement team:

Join our team for a fantastic opportunity to support the seamless enablement of work systems to the shop floor, ensuring they meet plan demands. This role offers the excitement of working closely with the Dreadnought Programme, where you’ll engage with a diverse range of stakeholders across the business. 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.

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: 26th March 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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