Delivery Project Manager

Job Title\: Delivery Project Manager

Location\: Cowes or Portsmouth Broad Oak – working a hybrid pattern with visits to Cowes

Referral Scheme\: £1000

Grade\: GG12

You’re expected to have completed 12 months in role prior to applying for an advertised vacancy and you should also discuss the internal opportunity with your line manager to ensure sustained business continuity and to further support your career development.

We know there may be exceptional individual circumstances that impact this, in the first instance please discuss this with your line manager.

If you don’t feel you can talk to your Line Manager, you can contact your HRBP.

PLEASE NOTE Should you be invited for interview, you will be giving consent for the Recruitment Team to contact you and your line manager regarding your application for this opportunity.

Role description\:

This role involves leading and delivering small to medium-sized projects or work packages, ensuring successful outcomes aligned to customer requirements. You will coordinate project management activities, support informed decision-making through analysis, manage control accounts or portfolio projects, and lead a team of up to 10 professionals to achieve project objectives.

Core duties\:

• Taking accountability for team budgets, performance, delivery outcomes and the successful achievement of project objectives
• Applying and promoting effective project management practices, ensuring processes are followed and tailored appropriately
• Adapting plans, priorities and resources to address operational challenges, risks and changing project requirements
• Leading Life Cycle Management activities, including tailoring, governance reviews, stakeholder coordination and review readiness
• Championing a positive safety culture by maintaining high standards of health, safety and environmental compliance
• Leading and developing a small team, providing coaching, training, performance feedback and day-to-day direction

Essential skills\:

• Strong project management expertise, including methodologies, governance, tools and best practices
• Proven ability to solve complex project challenges and make informed decisions
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence effectively
• Good commercial, financial and business awareness, with an understanding of project delivery environments
• Degree-qualified, professionally qualified, or able to demonstrate equivalent practical experience
• Professional project management accreditation (e.g. APM, PMI) or experience, with the ability to undertake LCM Assessor responsibilities

The Radar team\:

Join us in shaping the Future of Radar Technology. Building on our heritage of cutting‑edge, world‑leading radar products, we are rapidly evolving our portfolio to enhance existing capabilities while pioneering brand new systems designed to counter emerging and future threats across the battlespace. Through close collaboration with our customers and sustained investment in exceptional talent, we are committed to remaining at the forefront of defence innovation and defining the next generation of radar solutions.

Our workplace in Cowes is an easily accessible commute from Southampton with a regular foot passenger ferry and BAE shuttle service from the ferry terminal to site.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best.

You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive\:

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.

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\: 6th October 2026