Project Planning Lead - Dreadnought

• Job Title: Project Planning Lead - Dreadnought
• Location: Barrow-in-Furness - On-site
• Salary: £47,271 + depending on experience

What You’Ll Be Doing:

• Provide day-to-day leadership to the Project Team
• Analyse data and reports to identify and communicate relevant information, presenting findings to peers and senior management
• Identify Risk, Quality and Scope management issues
• Manage the cost and quality of delivery for the Project
• Lead and chair the review of enablement of work packages for execution by the Operations organisation
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders
• Coach and develop members of the current team
• Act as Team Lead in times of Managers absence

Your Skills And Experiences:

Essential:

• Project management experience, particularly with reporting and presenting to key stakeholders
• Ability to manage stakeholders at all levels of seniority
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel

Desirable:

• Recognised Project Management qualification e.g APM or Prince 2
• Experience using SAP and Teamcenter
• Experience managing a team
• Experience within a ship building environment

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 Central Yard Facility, Planning Production & Control (Mid) Enablement team

Join our team for a fantastic opportunity to lead the seamless enablement of work systems to the shop floor, ensuring they meet plan demands. This role offers the excitement of working closely with the Dreadnought Programme, where you'll engage with a diverse range of stakeholders across the business.

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: 31st October 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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