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Senior Project Manager
2 days/week at home
A little flex time – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements depending on the role you apply for – explore your options with our recruiter during the application process.
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: Rochester. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: Circa £73,000 depending on skills and experience
What you’ll be doing:
- Developing and maintaining excellent customer relations
- Managing team, or teams of teams depending upon value and complexity
- Developing and maintaining a detailed project plan that embraces all elements of the project
- Driving ownership of Work Packages and tasks throughout the project team
- Managing the project or bid to ensure all milestones and objectives are achieved
- Using project management techniques, to enable early disclosure of problems and effective implementation of mitigation actions
- Achieving the agreed project cost, sales, margin and cash flow targets
- Accountability for performance and delivery of program(s)
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
- Proven track record in delivery of a project or bid within tight timescale in a high pressured environment to ensure all milestones and objectives are achieved
- Using project management techniques, to enable early identification of problems and implementation of mitigation actions
- Skills of developing and maintaining excellent customer relations
- Experience of all aspects of a detailed project plan that embraces all elements of the project
Desirable:
- Previous experience in Aerospace/Defence business
- A formal project management qualification (e.g. APMP, PMQ, PMP or Prince 2) or equivalent experience
- Broad cross functional business experience
- Educated to degree level or equivalent – business or engineering preferably
- Experience of mentoring and coaching
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 Project Management team:
This exciting opportunity is within the Project Management Team at Electronic Systems at Rochester. You will be leading a multidiscipline IPT which could be anywhere within the lifecycle of cradle to grave for our product development of military and commercial products.
You will have the opportunity to work on a portfolio of projects with a rough estimate of £20 Million in value. Some travel will be required to various sites and globally on an ad-hoc basis.
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: 18th September 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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