P6 Planning Professional

Job Title: P6 Planning Professional

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

Salary: £45,628 + depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Performing advanced project reporting & scheduling

• Evaluate, Implement and optimise Planning and scheduling tools (e.g. Primavera, JIRA, SAC)

• Lead and support training initiatives to upskill our project planners

• Collaborate with PM, IM&T and planning teams to improve planning workflows and data integration.

• Support Schedule Assurance reviews, audits and maturity assesments across projects and programmes.

• Develop and maintain standardised planning processes, user guides and best practice guides

• Engaging in advanced problem solving typically based on previous experience

• Consolidating expertise from multiple sources, including third party experts, to provide coherent advice to further organisational objective

Your skills and experiences:

• Experience in Planning and Planning toolsets

• Ability to analyse Data and present findings

• Strong stakeholder management

• Strong Project management skills

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 Planning & Scheduling Function:

As a Project Planning Professional, you will support Managers and Planning Leads in applying sound planning principles across all our submarine programs and ensure the effective use of our planning software. This Is not a Project Delivery role but instead you will be part of a core team driving planning excellence across the Submarines through process improvement, toolset standardisation and training enablement. This diverse role offers excellent visibility across the business and can provide opportunities for professional development. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

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: 6^th 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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