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Working at BAE Systems

  • Founded
    November 1999
  • Company employees
    Around 110,000

Hiring in

  • Australia
  • United Kingdom
  • Malaysia
  • Poland
  • Singapore

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Join BAE Systems as a Senior Project Controller based fully on-site at Portsmouth Naval Base. This permanent role offers a salary of up to £50,000 depending on experience. You will support project teams by developing plans, maintaining baselines, reporting progress, and managing cost, schedule, and risk for strategic maritime and land sector programmes.

Requirements

  • Comprehensive experience and knowledge of Project Control policies, processes, procedures, and systems.
  • Experience with Intermediate Risk and Opportunity Management.
  • Working knowledge of industry Project Controls toolsets such as Primavera, Microsoft Project, SAP, and Predict.
  • Practical application of business information toolsets and data analytics like Tableau and Microsoft Power BI.
  • Experience in Baseline Control, Cost Estimating/Engineering, Resource Management, Quantity Surveying, Business Analysis, or Financial Management is advantageous.
  • Holding a Project Management qualification or certification is advantageous.
  • Must achieve at least Baseline Personnel Security Standard and meet potential higher National Security Vetting residency requirements.

Skills & Responsibilities

  • Project Controls & Toolsets: Utilize Primavera, Microsoft Project, SAP, and Predict to develop plans, maintain baselines, and report project progress.
  • Data Analytics & Reporting: Apply Tableau and Microsoft Power BI to analyse performance metrics, identify trends, and present findings to senior leaders.
  • Risk & Opportunity Management: Execute intermediate risk and opportunity management to assist Project Managers in delivering projects successfully.
  • Cost & Resource Management: Support monthly EAC and resource profiling to ensure effective cost and milestone delivery management.
  • Potential transition routes: People from Project Analyst or Financial Controller roles may bring data analysis and financial management skills, alongside meeting core project control requirements.

Job description

Job Title: Senior Project Controller

Location: Portsmouth Naval Base – fully site based

Salary: Up to £50,000 depending on skills and experience

Who we are:

Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.

From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space, there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.

What you’ll be doing:

You will support project teams by developing plans, maintaining baselines, and reporting progress. Responsibilities include analysing performance metrics, identifying trends, providing detailed programme insights, and presenting findings with recommended corrective actions to senior leaders to ensure effective cost, schedule, and milestone delivery management.

You will support the Project Manager in managing cost, schedule, and quality through accurate data and metrics, assist with monthly EAC and resource profiling, and contribute to effective risk and opportunity management to ensure successful project delivery.

Core duties:

  • You need to have comprehensive experience and knowledge of Project Control policies, processes, procedures and systems
  • You will have working knowledge of industry Project Controls toolsets e.g. Primavera, Microsoft Project, SAP, Predict
  • You have experience with Intermediate Risk and Opportunity Management
  • Practical application of business information toolsets/data analytics e.g. Tableau, Microsoft Power BI
  • Having experience/knowledge in Baseline Control, Cost Estimating/Engineering, Resource Management, Quantity Surveying, Business Analysis or Financial Management within project environments is advantageous
  • Holding a Project Management qualification/certification is advantageous

The Project Team:

By joining the team, you will be working together and using world-class project control techniques to provide expertise with supporting Project Managers in the delivery of exciting and strategically important programmes within our Maritime & Land Sector businesses.

The business has a drive towards professionalism; this includes support towards Chartership and further career development.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

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BAE Systems

Senior Project Controller

Portsmouth
On-site
Up to £50,000 depending on skills and experience

A place where everyone can thrive:

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

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 November 2026

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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