Submarines

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Our Submarines Business

Our Submarines business has been safely delivering world class submarines to the UK Royal Navy for more than a century.

The Astute class will equip the Royal Navy with its largest and most capable generation of attack submarines. We are responsible for the design, build, test and commissioning of these state-of-the-art vessels. In total, seven boats will make up the fleet, each weighing a mighty 7,400 tonnes.

Dreadnought is the successor to the Vanguard class of nuclear deterrent submarines. We will deliver four submarines to the Royal Navy, with the first submarine entering service in the early 2030s. Dreadnought is widely considered to be one of the world's most complex engineering challenges.

We have sites in Barrow-in-Furness, Filton, Frimley, Ash Vale, Broad Oak and Weymouth, and we pride ourselves on employing the best professionals around. Join us and you'll be part of something important; something you can be proud of.

Project Manager - Integrated Combat Systems

Would you like to work within a large scale, technically complex programme environment directly supporting operational submarines? We currently have a vacancy for a Project Manager based at our Southern sites either Frimley or Weymouth.

As a Project Manager, you will provide project management support to the team ensuring successful delivery of each project. You will ensure project momentum is maintained by creating clear delivery schedules, setting project milestones and deliverables, monitoring spend, maintaining good communications between the teams, capturing and ensuring actions are concluded.

It will require a good level of appreciation of the challenges the engineers face and work collaboratively with them to overcome these challenges whilst always understanding the budget and timescale expectations. You will need to prioritise work activities, so the team are supported to achieve the schedule to budget and quality standards. There is also the need to ensure bids can be rapidly compiled and delivered, requiring the ability to dynamically work with the engineers and tailor the BAE Systems process to these fast-paced projects.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to be able to work across a variety of aspects of the project life cycle, and there are future progression opportunities due to an expanding department and projects.

Your main responsibilities as a Project Manager will involve:

• Developing project plans collaboratively with the engineers
• Seeking funding approval using the Financial Approval process with Finance teams
• Collecting, collating and presenting project support output metrics
• The production of project reports; primarily monthly project progress reviews with senior management to provide an overview of project health and raise key issues
• Day to day management of assigned project tasks
• Supporting to the In-Service delivery project manager

Your skills and qualifications:

Essential:

• Previous Project Management experience of medium sized Engineering projects
• Proficient in MS Office IT Packages including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• The ability to lead a small non-complex project or larger work package
• The ability to manage the full project lifecycle to ensure that, over time, the needs of customers/users continue to be met and that financial and other benefits are achieved

Desirable:

• Knowledge/awareness of Confluence would be beneficial
• HNC certificate in Project Management or equivalent level of qualification

What we are looking for in you:

You should have good verbal and written communication skills and be comfortable building relationships with stakeholders of all levels. You should be enthusiastic, have good time management, be confident and a good team player. We are also looking for an individual with an analytical mindset and good problem-solving skills as you will need to be adaptable within the working environment.

Location: Weymouth or Frimley

Salary: Competitive

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.

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