Degree Apprentice Project Management

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Job title: Degree Apprentice Project Management

Location: Barrow

We offer relocation support packages for this role (Barrow-in-Furness based roles), subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Salary: We offer a competitive salary with annual increases throughout the apprenticeship and a range of employee benefits including, free higher education as well as access to the Company pension and share saving scheme

What you’ll be doing:

The Project Management Degree Apprenticeship is a 5 year scheme that will expose you to different areas in the business across world-class programmes, offering real life project experience that facilitates your learning and development.

During the Project Management Degree Apprenticeship you will work towards ensuring that our submarine programmes deliver successfully and safely to time, cost and quality.

Our placements are designed so that you are fully immersed into a role to gain PM competencies and on the job experiences, helping you to grow and develop both personally and professionally. You will gain a significant understanding and application of project management and will be building your knowledge and skills in aspects such as:

Stakeholder and Communications Management – To lead and take responsibility for the identification and analysis of a range of stakeholders and their impact on the project, as well as effectively listening to and influencing others through negotiation and persuasion.

Control of projects in terms of time, cost and quality – To manage projects within the constraints of time, cost and quality, including control of costs against budgets, forecasting, and establishing performance indicators.

The Business Environment – To identify and analyse the context, opportunities and challenges presented by projects in a range of organisational settings, appreciating the differences within organisations and in different industry sectors and the consequent need for tailoring.

Commercial and Contract management – To maintain and evaluate different commercial contract and procurement types to select appropriate options for specific programmes and projects. Furthermore, supporting effective contract management and the achievement of programme and project outcomes.

On this scheme you will be supported and nurtured to give you the capacity to make the role your own, and seize the endless opportunities for business, personal and professional growth.

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing & lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Submarines team:

Our Submarines business has been safely delivering world class submarines to the UK Royal Navy for more than a century.

The Astute class will equip the Royal Navy with its largest and most capable generation of attack submarines. We are responsible for the design, build, test and commissioning of these state-of-the-art vessels. In total, seven boats will make up the fleet, each weighing a mighty 7,400 tonnes.

Dreadnought is the successor to the Vanguard class of nuclear deterrent submarines. We will deliver four submarines to the Royal Navy, with the first submarine entering service in the early 2030s. Dreadnought is widely considered to be one of the world’s most complex engineering challenges.

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 under represented 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.

Export Control / Security:

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.

Five GCSEs including Maths and English at grade A*-C/4-9 (or equivalent)

A minimum of 96 UCAS points (240 points old system), or equivalent (excluding UCAS points gained at AS level)