Atlassian Project Manager

BAE Systems; Lancaster; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense and aerospace company is seeking a Junior Project Manager to join their team in Warton. In this role, you will manage project planning, risk mitigation, and stakeholder engagement using Atlassian tools. Ideal candidates will have experience in an IT environment and excellent communication skills. This position supports professional growth within a collaborative team environment.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health and wellbeing benefits

Private health plans

Shopping discounts

Potential annual incentive

Qualifications

• Experience within an IT environment or qualification at Level 3 within IT discipline.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Define project scope, objectives, and deliverables using Atlassian toolset.
• Contribute to task coordination and communication within project team.
• Identify and manage project stakeholder relationships.
• Assess project risks and implement mitigation strategies.
• Ensure adherence to quality standards during project lifecycle.
• Facilitate project meetings and prepare status updates.

Skills

Experience within an IT environment or qualification at Level 3 within IT discipline

Excellent written and verbal communication

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Job title: Junior Project Manager – IT

Location: Warton

Salary: £41,361

What you’ll be doing:

• Project Planning: using the Atlassian toolset, define agree project scope objectives, deliverables and timelines, creating plans with tasks dependencies and resources
• Task Management: Contributing as an active member of the project team, assisting with task coordination, supporting collaboration and communication, and using Atlassian tools to help keep the project on track through its lifecycle
• Stakeholder Engagement: identify project stakeholder, communicate project progress risks and issues, and manage stakeholder relationships
• Risk Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues
• Quality assurance: Ensure quality standards are adhered to throughout the project. Throughout the project conducting regular reviews
• Communication and reporting: Facilitate regular project meetings to review progress, discuss issues, and make decisions. Prepare and distribute project status reports, updates, and other communications to stakeholders

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Experience within an IT environment or qualification at Level 3 within IT discipline
• Excellent written and verbal communication

Desirable:

• Previous project management experience
• Experience using toolsets such as Jira or Confluence

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 Atlassian Project Team:

You’ll be joining our Atlassian System Competency Centre: a collaborative team of around 50 people dedicated to delivering high-quality projects that support our organisation’s tools and systems. We operate a buddy system to help new starters settle in quickly and offer both project management (PMDY) and Agile training to support your professional growth. While most of our work is internal, we also partner with external suppliers such as DXC. Our supportive environment, focus on continuous learning, and commitment to internal development make this a great place to build your project management career.

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: 27th August 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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