Job Title: Lead Project Professional – Delivery

Location: Frimley or Portsmouth Broad Oak. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £50,000 subject to skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Ensuring that all aspects of the projects are fully defined to ensure customer requirements are achieved in accordance with all business and commercial criteria

• Developing and maintaining coherent, fully integrated, resourced and workable project plans and budgets in collaboration with the Engineering Managers

• Developing estimates in support of bids, annual budgets, or cost to completion, and analyse “spend to date” data

• Leading, controlling and monitoring projects to agreed time, cost, and quality requirements, reviewing, and reporting on progress against plan and where necessary, resolving issues which threaten delivery to plan

• Support to production of monthly reports for Management Information

• Risk and Opportunity management using ARM tool

Your skills and experiences:

• Experience of delivering projects within tight timescale in a complex working environment

• Using project management techniques, to enable early identification of problems and implementation of mitigation actions

• Experience of developing customer affinity and maintaining excellent customer relations

• Knowledge of Project Controls including techniques such as EVM

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 Dreadnought Combat Systems Engineering Project Management team:

You will have the opportunity to work for a world leading Defence Engineering company supporting the development and build of the latest Dreadnought Class of Submarine. This team supports the requirements specification, design, build and test of the Combat System for that submarine by working closely with engineering teams, providing a professional Project Management service. The team’s responsibility includes de-risking and integration of the Combat System on the submarine representative test facility at Frimley prior to delivery to the submarine in build at the shipyard. The environment is dynamic, interesting and provides plenty of scope for personal and professional development with extensive training offered.

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 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: 27th 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.

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