Project Manager

BAE Systems.; Towcester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor in Towcester is seeking a Project Manager to oversee project delivery, maintaining stakeholder relationships, and ensuring quality standards are met. The role requires a degree in a relevant field and experience in a complex engineering environment. You will manage risks, support bidding processes, and develop project estimates, all while being part of a team that values diversity and offers a range of flexible benefits, including health plans and employee share plans.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible discounted health benefits

Private health plans

Shopping discounts

Annual incentive eligibility

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent experience in project management.
• Formal project management qualification or working towards one.
• Experience in a complex engineering business.

Responsibilities

• Interface with customers and stakeholders to maintain communication.
• Control and monitor project delivery against time and quality.
• Manage risks and opportunities for project benefit.

Skills

Project management experience

Communication skills

Relationship building

Microsoft Office proficiency

Education

Degree in project management or business-related subject

Formal project management qualification (e.g. APMP, PMP, Prince 2)

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

Project Manager

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

Salary: £45,000

What you'll be doing

• Interface with customers, sub-contractors and project stakeholders. Develop and maintain relationships through regular communication, proposal of opportunities and timely reporting of issues therefore ensuring all deliverables are achieved
• Controlling and monitoring projects so that they are delivered to agreed time, cost and quality requirements, regularly reviewing and reporting on progress against plan and where necessary, intervening to resolve issues which threaten delivery to plan
• Ensuring that all aspects of the projects are fully defined to ensure customer requirements are achieved in accordance with all business and commercial criteria
• Proactively manage emerging risks and opportunities to the benefit of the project/programme
• Supporting bid and tendering processes to ensure bids meet customer needs, in line with business & commercial criteria that all risks are assessed effectively, and that bids are realistic and winnable
• Developing accurate estimates in support of bids, annual budgets or cost to completion, and analyse 'spend to date' data
• Management of schedules, including tracking of critical paths and dependencies
• Produce reporting information on a monthly basis to support business reporting of operational and project progress and issues
• Support the continuous improvement and development of the ATS Project Management team
• Working within a multi-disciplined team consisting of engineering, commercial, project management etc., to ensure that both the customers and business requirements are met, whilst ensuring that all commercial aspects are well documented

Your skills and experiences

Essential Skills

• Degree or equivalent hands on experience in a project management or business-related subject
• A formal project management qualification or working towards (e.g. APMP, PMQ, PMP or Prince 2)
• Experience in a complex engineering business. Experience working with Microsoft Office tools, including Microsoft Project

Desirable

• The ability to communicate information and forge trusted relationships across all working levels
• You will be flexible, well-motivated with good communication skills, have the ability to prioritise multiple tasks and work to tight deadlines as well as able to plan ahead to foresee potential difficulties

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 ATS team

The Advanced Technology Solutions (ATS) organisation currently comprises of the Micro and Nano Systems (M&NS) operational group based in Filton, Bristol and the Microwave Materials (MM) business, based in Towcester, Northamptonshire. The role is based out of Towcester.

The Project Manager is required to provide end-to-end management of all assigned projects for the ATS organisation. This encompasses generation of bids and business cases, contract negotiation, robust planning, leadership of programme delivery and management of project closure or transition. Typically, this will involve working on to secure subsequent investment on large multi-phase development 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

17th December 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.