Lead Project Professional – Delivery

Job Description

Job title: Lead Project Professional – Delivery

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. This is a full-time onsite position

Salary: From £45,628 dependent on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Proactively engaging with a wide range of stakeholders and functions to ensure integration of infrastructure across the facility and the business
• Liaise with stakeholders to ensure the future requirements of the facility are aligned to the design intended
• Responsible for enabling and delivering multiple small, isolated projects to support the wider programme
• Provide focus and drive to projects / work packages to ensure delivery is in line with the programme plan
• Support the management and integration of programme solutions / projects
• Lead engagement sessions which promote the programme vision and describe how change is beneficial to stakeholders
• Be an advocate of change and drive the successful adoption of transformation in the facility 

Your skills and experiences:

• Familiarity with infrastructure or operational delivery for buildings
• Strong stakeholder management experience up to Director level with the ability to build strong interpersonal relationships
• Project Management experience – including reporting, scheduling and dependency management
• Knowledge of business change theories or previous experience with Change Transformation projects
• Project Management qualifications such as APMQ, Prince2 etc would be desirable but not essential
• Operating in a complex delivery environment across multiple projects and programmes 

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave incentive 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 Devonshire Dock Complex Transitions team:

As the Lead Project Professional – Delivery you will have a unique and exciting opportunity to be involved in a key transformation project to help define and deliver the future for the Devonshire Dock Complex (DDC) – a key element of the manufacturing capability at our Barrow in Furness site. The DDC Transition Programme is a change programme which is charged with transforming the DDC to create a vibrant, state-of-the-art production facility, built for safety, flow, efficiency and the community. By undertaking this change programme, focussing on People & Climate, Infrastructure and Ways of Working we will enable our current and future generations to prosper and the best work of their lives. We offer relocation support across all Submarine 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: 24^th January 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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