Project Manager - Delivery

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Project Manager Delivery

We currently have a vacancy for a Project Manager - Delivery at our site in Barrow. This is an exciting opportunity to join the BAE Capability, Capacity and Resilience (BCCR) team responsible for enabling delivery of the SSNA UK Programme. BCCR is seeking to deliver Capacity, Capability and Resilience improvements across the Barrow Shipyard, Supply Chain, Technology and People to deliver in the future.

As Project Manager Delivery you will be responsible for setting the overall architecture approach for the BCCR solution ensuring this can deliver the necessary capabilities to enable Programme delivery. You will undertake options analysis, impact analysis, solution modelling activities – working with the Programme and Business to ensure integration and alignment across key stakeholders. You will provide oversight, control and governance to ensure – leading on Change Control of the solution via configuration, change management, and impact assessments.

This is an excellent PM role, with focus on cross functional working and integration across Programme and Business teams. It’s critical role which you will be at the core of setting the business up to deliver in the future.

Your main responsibilities as Project Manager Delivery\:

· Accountable for the over-all setting of BCCR Solution Architecture approaches – driving alignment with solution architecture approaches across the wider business.

· Lead the Solution Working Group and change control process for the baseline solution definition

· Responsible for integration of the BCCR Solution and Programme.

· Provide oversight, control and governance to ensure the solution is clearly defined and translated into detailed solutions.

· Engage with the customer on issues around the BCCR solution.

· Develop the skills and behaviours of the Solution Architecture team including a positive, improvement orientated, and on time delivery culture.

· Manage the Solution Architecture team.

Your skills and qualifications\:

Essential\:

· Experience in Project Management and Project Delivery

· Submarine build experience (or build and/or design), and familiarity with business systems and “system of work” within submarines.

· Excellent stakeholder management ability with both internal and external stakeholders

· People management experience

Desirable\:

· APM or equivalent project management qualification/ registration

· Chartered PM professional

· Degree level qualification or equivalent experience

· Solution modelling experience (including capacity modelling / articulating how well a solution meets requirements)

What we're looking for in you\:

We’re looking for you to be an excellent communicator, able to manage multiple stakeholders both internally and externally. You’ll need to be an astute problem solver, able to understand and distil complex problems to determine resolutions.

Location\: Barrow-in-Furness. This role will require a minimum of 2 days per week on site

Grade\: GG13

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

Maritime – Submarines

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.

SSNA is the replacement submarine to the Astute class, and is the third major submarine programme being undertaken for the Royal Navy. SSNA will be the largest Attack submarine ever built for the Royal Navy and it is the core submarine at the heart of the AUKUS tri-national security pact that will deliver world class capability in the late 2030s and beyond.

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.

We are committed to supporting work life balance for all our employees and embrace a range of modern working practices, which aim to enhance flexibility for individuals whilst also enabling business performance. Flexibility provisions vary by role, but include; hybrid working arrangements, flexible working patterns and shift working.

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.

For more information on our Diversity & Inclusion work, please click here.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and who 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. Click here for more information on national security vetting levels.