Job title: Project Manager

Location: Broad Oak or Great Baddow. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements

Salary: Up to £61,000 dependent on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Successfully delivering the defence electronics Software Development programme, as well as future studies and bidding prospects
• Proactive and positive external customer engagements/stakeholder management
• Being accountable for the budget, performance and results of the team across all projects and activities.
• Exercising full management authority, including performance reviews, pay decisions, recruitment, discipline, termination and other personnel actions
• Working with the engineering and business development teams to define future business cases and future technologies
• Identifying exploitation paths and routes to market for the product offering(s)
• You’ll also have people manager responsibilities in this role.

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

• Degree qualified in a relevant subject or equivalent working experience
• Previous Project Management experience delivering software development programmes
• Experience of Microsoft projects
• Experience of forecasting and project performance reporting

Desireable

• Previous experience working with defence contractors and customers
• Experience with change programmes

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Novel Sensors team:

You will work with a diverse team of engineering specialists on a 4-5 year programme, developing a cutting edge defence software product for integration onto hardware platform. The core team is located in Great Baddow, Essex, with other key members located at across other BAE System sites. The Novel Sensors team has a proven track record of project delivery, by maximising the benefits of hybrid working (Remote and Office based).

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, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also 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 working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.