Job Title Air – Project Engineer

Location Samlesbury or Warton. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary £41,361+ depending on experience

What you’ll be doing

• Establishing, planning and managing or supporting the delivery of projects to schedule, cost and quality in line with agreed processes and our governance framework

• Managing relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring all deliverables are achieved and that issues are surfaced and effectively addressed

• Supporting the identification and management of risks and opportunities

• Perform project reporting, using data to produce management information and propose appropriate actions to achieve project and business success criteria

• Managing change for the project across scope, cost and schedule

Your skills and experiences

Essential

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• Proven ability to use data to develop and present insightful management information

• Experience gained working on projects including time, cost & quality management

• Understanding of creating and maintaining project schedules using appropriate toolsets

• Understanding of risk and opportunity management

Desirable

• Strength in STEM subjects with formal project management qualification or working towards

• Track record working across multiple projects, both independently and as part of a team

• Understanding of risk and opportunity management tools and techniques

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 Air PM team

The team contributes to complex national and international projects within the Air Sector of BAE Systems. As part of this team, you will be working on class project control techniques to support the Project Managers in the delivery of large, high value, technically complex and strategically important programmes.

This role will provide you with opportunity to utilise state of the art project control technology and play an integral role in Program Management team.

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 2nd October 2025.

Assessment Centres to be held from as early as WC 3rd October

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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