Lead Planner

Location: Frimley, Portsmouth Broad Oak, Weymouth or Filton. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: From £47,271 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Maintaining and supporting of Primavera P6 schedules and monthly updates
• Maintaining Project Schedule Health
• Management of progress reports and Change Control (production of PMBCR's and implementation)
• Estimated Actuals at Completion (EAC) and Earned Value Management (EVM) maintenance alongside Project Managers
• Produce labour and material profile reports
• Collaborating with a small team of Work Package Managers and Project Controls

Your skills and experiences:

• Extensive Project Planning and Reporting experience
• Experience of Schedule Health Management
• Demonstrable experience in Earned Value Management (EVM)
• Ability to provide a full overview of Project Controls
• Experience using SharePoint
• Knowledge of SAP Analytics Cloud

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 Integrated Combat Systems team: You will be joining our well-established team to deliver future capability for the Royal Navy. This role offers you a varied experience covering all aspects of Project Management and controls from start to finish. You'll have excellent opportunities for further development on new programs and projects.

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: 5th 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.