Air - Project Manager

BAE Systems.; Carnforth; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defence contractor in the UK is seeking an experienced Project Manager to oversee complex projects. The ideal candidate will manage project schedules, control scope and budget while ensuring team performance. Essential skills include project control systems and change management experience. This role offers competitive salary and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Discounted health and lifestyle benefits

Qualifications

• Experience of operating project control systems.
• Experience creating and maintaining project schedules.
• Demonstrable track record of achievement.

Responsibilities

• Managing project progress and stakeholder alignment.
• Monitoring performance and identifying improvement areas.
• Driving team ownership of project tasks.

Skills

Project control systems

Project scheduling

Earned Value Management

Risk management

Team leadership

Education

Degree in relevant field

Project management qualification (APMP, Prince 2)

Job description

Overview

Job Title Air - Project Manager

Location Samlesbury or Warton. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary Up to £54,098 depending on experience

What you'll be doing

• Managing a project, or a part of a larger, more complex project, taking responsibility for specific work packages, and/or integrating across work packages and teams
• Setting objectives, clarifying needs and managing stakeholders to align to project and company success criteria
• Creating, integrating and maintaining project schedules, managing dependencies
• Operating and understanding a project control system to control scope, define progress and identify programme performance issues
• Monitoring performance and providing trend analysis to determine improvement areas and to support the development of key performance indicators
• Driving ownership and completion of the work scope tasks throughout the project team
• Managing change, controlling and balancing scope, budget and timescales, applying Earned Value Management techniques
• Applying risk and opportunity techniques to continuously improve and optimise outcomes to deliver value for money and satisfy customers
• Undertaking team management and leadership responsibilities, ensuring safety is at the forefront of all we do

Your skills and experiences

Essential

• Experience of operating project control systems, defining and driving progress, whilst identifying and then addressing performance issues
• Experience creating and maintaining project schedules, using the relevant toolsets
• Experience applying Earned Value Management techniques
• Experience of risk, opportunity, scope and change management
• Demonstrable track record of achievement and objective delivery

Desirable

• Demonstrated ability to lead a team with previous management experience
• Degree educated, supplemented with a formal project management qualification such as APMP, Prince 2 or equivalent experience

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 Air PM team

You will be part of a team of professionals using world-class project control techniques, providing expertise to support the Project Managers in the delivery of large, high value, technically complex and strategically important programmes.

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

2nd October 2025.

Assessment Centres to be held from as early as WC 3rd October

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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