Project Planning Delivery Lead

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 & experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Maintain and update the full suite of planning and scheduling process documentation
• Lead and manage process improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency
• Evaluate and implement change requests as part of ongoing process improvement projects
• Prepare, analyse, and present data to a diverse range of internal stakeholders across multiple organisational levels
• Collaborate effectively with stakeholders across multiple departments to ensure alignment and drive continuous improvement

Your skills and experience:

• Project Delivery and Planning experience
• Excellent organisational and communication skills
• Proficient with MS Office
• Understanding of Quality Assurance Process
• Recognised Project Management qualification (e.g. APMQ)
• Proficient with planning toolsets (e.g. JIRA or Primavera P6)

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 PM&C Planning and Scheduling team:

This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in shaping and maintaining complex planning and scheduling operations within a Planning and Scheduling Discipline. You’ll gain a broad understanding of the wider business by engaging with all levels of scheduling—from strategic to detailed plans—across the programme. 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: 16th July 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.