Project Control Manager

Job Title: Project Control Manager

Location: Warton with occasional travel to other UK based sites. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Grade: GG13

You’re expected to have completed 12 months in role prior to applying for an advertised vacancy and you should also discuss the internal opportunity with your line manager to ensure sustained business continuity and to further support your career development.

We know there may be exceptional individual circumstances that impact this, in the first instance please discuss this with your line manager.

If you don’t feel you can talk to your Line Manager, you can contact your HRBP.

PLEASE NOTE Should you be invited for interview; you acknowledge that the Recruitment team will contact you and your line manager regarding your application for this opportunity.

What you’ll be doing:

Lead and manage a team of Project Control professionals

Deliver an efficient and effective Project Control service for a complex portfolio of work, across multiple customers

Interface effectively with the Line of Business Contract Owners to agree requirements, manage expectations and resolve issues

Lead the roll out of upcoming toolsets and process changes

Responsible for performance reporting, Integrated Business Planning, demand/supply resource planning and Health & Safety

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

Extensive Project Control knowledge and experience, including Earned Value Management, scheduling and change control

Significant experience in stakeholder leadership, team leadership and team management

Ability to manage a complex portfolio of work, with a number of priorities at any given time

Detailed knowledge of performance reporting, Integrated Business Planning, demand/supply resource planning and Health & Safety

Desirable

Knowledge of Engineering programmes

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 team:

The Design, Development, Test & Evaluation (DDT&E) organisation is a 2,4000+ strong engineering organisation delivering Engineering projects and more across multiple aircraft platforms including Typhoon, Tornado, Hawk, F35, FalconWorks and FCAS. There are 5 Centres of Excellence within DDT&E including; Test and Evaluation, Mission and Information Systems, Synthetic Training, Flight Sciences, Advanced Aerostructures enabled by a central operations team.

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.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.

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.