Project Manager – FalconWorks

Job Description

Job Title: Project Manager – FalconWorks

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: £54,793 – £60,326 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Managing aspects of the Project lifecycle enabling the Project to meet the needs of customers/users and achieve financial or other targets
• Contributing to organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for measurement. Reviews data collection and storage mechanisms (including automation) to support measurement
• Assisting the user community in the provision of transition support and change planning, and liaises with the project team. Monitors and reports progress on business readiness targets, business engagement activity, training design and deployment activities, key operational metrics and return to productivity measures
• Translating communications/stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables. Facilitates open communication and discussion between stakeholders, acting as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans
• Providing informed feedback to assess and promote understanding – Captures and disseminates technical and business information
• Utilising methods, tools, techniques; selecting appropriately from plan-driven/predictive approaches or more adaptive (iterative and agile) approaches

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Awareness of business unit policies and processes
• Experience of working in an IT Function
• Excellent customers and stakeholder management

Desirable:

• Evidence of problem solving and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information
• Foundation level of experience in delivering objectives in line with some if not all of the Project Management IM&T skill sets

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The team:

This role will be deployed from the DTS PMO into the DTD&I FalconWorks team to support the Odyssey Training Transformation Programme.

This programme has 6 work streams, and this role will be responsible for the project management of the IT and Facilities work packages within the programme and dual report into the DTD&I Business Partner as well as a dotted line into the Overall Odyssey project.

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.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 8th August 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.

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