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Job Description

Job Title: Senior Project Professional

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

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

What you’ll be doing:

  • Investigate and understand root causes in the end-to-end material processes inclusive of people, process and systems
  • Responsible for implementing and identifying benefits within cost, efficiency, quality, capacity and performance in readiness for SSNR drumbeats
  • Collaborate with key stakeholders, including SMEs and managers within SSNA, to understand requirements, address challenges, and develop effective solutions
  • Facilitation and coach change workshops and additional Continuous Improvement tools
  • Interpreting, analysing and presenting data, to identify improvements
  • Supporting Inventory Management transformation projects to benefit SSNA

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

  • Lean Six Sigma Yellow or Green Belt (or equivalent experience)
  • Advanced Excel proficiency
  • Experience in process improvement and process mapping

Desirable:

  • Strong facilitation and presentation skills
  • Background in supply chain operations

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 Logistics and Inventory Management (LIM) team:

You will be joining our dynamic and engaged team at LIM as we navigate an exciting transformation! This new role provides a dedicated resource to drive problem-solving and future-state improvements, ensuring readiness for SSNR and supporting DN efficiencies. You’ll be at the forefront of data-driven process enhancements, working closely with both programme and LIM stakeholders. With a highly integrated new subcontract and cutting-edge technology, this is an opportunity to network across functions and the supply chain, contribute to meaningful change, and help future-proof our operations. We foster a culture of continuous development and encourage innovation. 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.

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: 25th 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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Company benefits

Enhanced maternity leave – Up to 52 weeks with the option of returning to work on reduced hours for the first 13 weeks
Enhanced paternity leave – 4 weeks for eligible employees
Adoption leave
Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to compressed hours
Open to part time work for some roles
Gym membership
Buy or sell annual leave
Bank holiday swaps
Company shutdown periods
Share options
Salary sacrifice
Employee discounts
Lunch and learns
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Mental health first aiders
Health insurance
Family health insurance
Annual bonus
Shared parental leave
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
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Company employees

Around 100,000

Currently Hiring Countries

Australia

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