IM&T Project Management Professional

Job Description

Job title: FCAS Retained – Secure Infrastructure Project Manager

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

Salary: £54,793+ depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Manages aspects of the Project lifecycle enabling the Project to meet the needs of customers/users and achieve financial or other targets
• Enables uptake of the Programme(s) aims of introducing Agile ways of working, supporting and evaluating new ways of working and monitoring performance
• Provides advice and guidance for effective use of measures and also plans and implements improvements to measurement capability
• Determines the readiness levels of business areas with regard to upcoming changes; uncovers readiness gaps and creates and implements action plans to remediate issues
• Assists the user community in the provision of transition support and change planning
• Deals with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information. Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management
• Utilises methods, tools, techniques; selecting appropriately from plan-driven/predictive approaches or more adaptive (iterative and agile) approaches
• Assists in the development of new or improved practices and organisational processes or standards and facilitates localised improvements to the quality system or services

Your skills and experiences:

• Strong project management experience
• Budget management experience
• Good understanding of Agile working practices
• Demonstrates experience delivering technical capabilities in controlled environments
• Familiar with Waterfall / Jira and Confluence
• Good IT knowledge

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 FCAS PM team:

The DTS Secure Infrastructure Project Manager will be responsible for delivering both small and large infrastructure projects, as well as digital capability demands. The role will involve working with DTS Supply Chain and ensuring integration with our Facilities and FCAS PM colleagues. Duties will involve discussion with FCAS Engineers, Business Analysts and Architects to ensure the correct level of requirements are captured, and the projects are delivered on time, at cost and the right quality.

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: 22nd April 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.