Job title: Senior FCAS IP Project Engineer / Bid Lead

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

Salary: £54,793+ Depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Ensuring all aspects of the teams works are reviewed, challenged and accurate before release in to wider stakeholders for approval

• Responsible for the management & dissemination of accurate and topical data for all aspects of Change, DAREO and package order / bid activities

• Managing, influencing and interfacing with senior managers to gains approvals aligned to required clearance routes for any aspects of Buildings & Infrastructure (B&I) Future Combat Air System (FCAS) works relating to:

  • Securing project funding

  • IBP / FCAS investment planning and forecasting for future works, aligned to both the business & MOD fiscal years

• Management of escalating the impact of risks as they become issues & dependency failures. Providing accurate impacts (cost, time) and driving resolution across appropriate stakeholders to safeguard B&I deliverables

• Management of the LCM toolset and gated documentation inputs into mandated systems. Ensuring the required outputs and associated LCM data packs are generated to support required reviews.

• Support to securing agreement to the B&I tailoring plan for LCM

• Development, management and approval of topical PM artefacts in support of capital works contract requirements, e.g. Overarching B&I portfolio PMP etc

• Management of a small team of people delivering all PM aspects business case / bid, change, DAREO & LCM activities

Your skills and experiences:

• Ability to analyse, understand and articulate multiple facets of the programme deliverables to distil an accurate output for the required audience

• Demonstrable experience within a project management environment and a good understanding of the project lifecycle

• Good and stakeholder management experience, particularly with the ability to guide and influence quality outputs

• Demonstrating visible leadership in the management of a small team of people delivering PM activities in support of FCAS Building & Infrastructure deliverables. Positively influencing the team to ensure all aspects of Health and Safety, training, development and working policies are adhered with as standard practice and behaviours

• Ability to motivate and manage a small team of people for delivery of the required outputs to time and quality

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 FCAS Investment & Infrastructure Services PM team

The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) Programme of works has a target in service delivery date of 2035. As part of the Infrastructure & Facilities Services (IFS) FCAS PM delivery team you will be involved in delivering new / upgraded facilities & infrastructure capability in support of development of the new aircraft system. The changes required to the Warton unit to allow capability insertion are akin to a ‘once in a lifetime’ developmental programme of works, currently standing at 94 onsite facility / infrastructure packages of work across Samlesbury & Warton. The scale of the task will see onsite construction works, the like of which have not been experienced previously and will have impacts beyond the fence line and into the local communities. This ambitious site wide transformation is being delivered against several complex considerations and currently fluid backdrop in terms of:

• High level security classifications requirements

• A maturity contractual framework with client

• Scale / size & capacity issues at both sites, along with other Air programme and export customer needs

• The need to ensure current operations are maintain with negligible / no impact

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: 29th September 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.

#LI-MH1

#LI-Hybrid