Naval Ships

We serve and protect those who serve and protect us. Attracting and retaining the sharpest minds is essential for a globally competitive UK Naval Ships Business. Our aim is to recruit the very best talent. At BAE we want to be the leading employer in defence and security for valuing diversity and inclusion. We care about difference in all forms and want to create an inclusive environment where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently under-represented within our industry, including women, people from ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to be a preferred home for veterans and reservists.

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Our Naval Ships business

We design and manufacture a range of naval ships and state of the art combat systems and equipment, giving customers the capability to fulfil extensive naval operations. From offshore patrol vessels through to the latest City Class Type 26 frigates that we are building for the UK Royal Navy, and the Australian Hunter Class and Canadian Surface Combatant, we are a business that operates on a truly global platform and can offer a wide range of opportunities where you can play your part in these challenging and exciting projects.

Attracting and retaining the sharpest minds is essential for a globally competitive UK naval engineering business. Our aim is to recruit the very best talent and we welcome applications from a diverse range of people, from all backgrounds, with many different skills, experience and perspectives. We offer the flexibility you need to do what's important to you, whether that's job sharing, home working, or simply the ability to flex your start and stop times. Where practical, we'll support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your full potential.

Risk Manager

Would you like to play a key role implementing and maintaining the risk and opportunities plan within our Naval Ships business? We currently have a vacancy for a Risk Manager at our site in Scotstoun, Glasgow.

The BAE Systems Naval Ships business has an exciting range of large scale, high value contracts currently underway across its sites in Glasgow, Portsmouth and Bristol. The Type 26 programme where construction already under way on first 3 ships at our site in Glasgow to deliver state of the art frigates to the Royal Navy Customer. The Type 26 will replace the UK's Type 23 frigates, with the first set to enter service in the 2020s and the last remaining in service beyond the middle of the century. We also have exciting opportunities across our Global Combat Ship platform through the Canada Surface Combatant and Hunter Class programmes.

As a Risk Manager, you will be responsible for managing risk and opportunities on the programme. You will be implementing and maintaining the risk and opportunities management plan. This will include ownership of the risk register and leading on the analysis of the risks and opportunities to provide key management information to appropriately manage our programmes.

As an experienced Risk Manager, you will provide subject matter expertise to the Programme Management community, promoting the adoption of best practice and coach the wider stakeholder network on effective risk and opportunity management.

Your main responsibilities as a Risk Manager will involve:

• Developing, implementing and maintaining the risk and opportunities management plan and processes
• Monitor its adherence, identifying conflicts and issues and resolve where possible
• Managing and ensuring that the risk and opportunities register is updated
• Preparing and representing the team at customer meetings concerning, risk management, contract assumptions, exclusions and dependencies
• Influencing senior stakeholders to ensure risk and opportunity management is given appropriate prioritisation
• Challenge mitigation and realisation action to drive the risk and opportunity process
• Champion best practice risk and opportunity management processes

Your skills and qualifications:

• You will be a Risk Manager with experience in a complex / high value projects
• Risk qualified and appropriate toolset experience (ARM, PRA)
• Ability to write and review risk management plans and processes
• Ability to present management information to senior stakeholders, influencing where necessary

What we're looking for in you:

You will have excellent communication skills as you will be working with senior stakeholders including senior management team and customer. You will have good influencing and negotiation skills and will be self-motivated and have the ability to work under pressure and meet tight and changing deadlines.

Location: Scotstoun, Glasgow

Salary: £45,000-£55,000

Benefits

Our employees receive an excellent benefits package which includes a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. We also offer a range of additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and many local and national employee discounts. Some employees may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

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/or your place of birth may limit those roles that you can perform for the organisation.

BAE Systems

BAE Systems is one of the world's leading global defence, security and aerospace companies. We work at the cutting edge of technology, creating more than 100 new inventions every year for customers in over 100 countries.

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/or your place of birth may limit those roles that you can perform for the organisation.

Due to the volume of applications we receive, we sometimes close our vacancies early. It is therefore advisable to apply as early as possible if you would like to be considered for a role with BAE Systems.