Project Professional

Job Description

Job title: Project Professional

Location: Sheffield, Barrow or Bristol – both part-time & full-time positions available. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £47,017+ depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Identify assesses and manages risks to the success of the project. Applies appropriate PM methods and tools whether predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches. Agrees project approach with stakeholders, and prepares realistic plans (including quality, risk and communications plans) and tracks activities against the project schedule, managing stakeholder involvement as appropriate
• Lead a small project or a work package of a larger project
• Perform advanced project reporting & scheduling
• Manage the full project lifecycle to ensure that, over time, the needs of customers/users continue to be met, and that financial and other benefits are achieved
• Consolidate with a wide range of stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Degree level educated or commensurate industry experience

• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of PM policies, processes, procedures and systems

• Ability to apply advanced problem-solving techniques

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to gather and interpret information to inform solution development and implementation strategies

• Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to influence and engage both internal and external stakeholders

Desirable:

• APM qualified

• Experience within a defence or engineering industry

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 Platforms and Services Project Team:

As part of BAE Systems Platforms and Services sector, Weapon Systems (UK) designs, develops, manufactures, and supports artillery systems, naval guns, and provides engineering capability to the wider BAE Systems business. Our global reach brings our customers a depth and breadth of expertise that meet critical needs in the air, on land, and at sea.

You will be joining our business at an exciting time – we’re expanding rapidly and growing from a single-site operation to a multi-site, including a brand-new production facility in Sheffield. We have some great opportunities for project management professionals across our sustainment production and R&D (research and development) programmes. You’ll be in a role that provides variety and a real sense of impact.

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.

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: 19th August 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.