BAE Systems

Scheduling Assistant

Company
Location
Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
8/6/2025
Description
Job Title: Project Scheduler Assistant

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

Salary: Up to £30,000 dependent on skills and experience

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Project Scheduler Assistant, the individual in this role will be supporting the Warship Support scheduling community across a range of projects. The role will report to the Scheduling Manager. Your core duties will include:

  • Ensuring schedules remain relevant to work enablement and project delivery
  • Ability to support ship visits to evaluate customer requirements in more detail and understand project progress
  • PC literate with Microsoft Project desirable and able to use or learn an ERP system such as SAP as well as other Integrated Business Systems (IBS)

Your Skills And Experiences

  • Previous experience in refit/installation/repair experience in a Maritime/Oil & Gas or similar engineering environment
  • Awareness of general H&S/Environmental regulations and safe working practices
  • Basic understanding of the requirement of planning, scheduling and controls that are required in the delivery of a project
  • Experience of working across multi teams

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 Maritime And Land Defence Solutions Team

As a Project Scheduler Assistant, you will support the team on a range of projects but within a wider team of around 17 schedulers. There will be opportunities to work with other schedules on larger-scale projects. You will work closely and support other Project Managers and Project Controllers, the Delivery and engineering teams – as well as senior stakeholders within the MOD.

As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach, will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home.

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: 20th August 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.

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