Job title: Senior Project Planner
Location: Glasgow – Scotstoun – 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 £49,000 (dependent on skills and experience)
What You’ll Be Doing
- The individual will create, maintain and control the project and delivery schedules, including the monitoring and reporting of project status. Actively work to resolve scheduling issues, working with internal and external stakeholders to formulate recovery plans
- Translating the ship design into Level 1/Level 2 schedules, logic, resourcing, and budget
- Delivering an enabled network schedule in line with the Integrated Master Schedule, declared cardinal dates, and quarterly look-ahead aspirations
- Allocating task budgets and alignment of work scope budgets with Project/Control Account Manager (CAM) targets
- Taking accountability for maintaining quality standards within plans and compliance to governance measure
- Providing key support and guidance to the Management Team through regular engagement and a visible presence “on the floor” as the project moves through all phases – Engineering, Supply Chain, Build, Commissioning, and Acceptance. Supporting weekly project reviews / playing active part in meetings
- Being informed and able to validate, advise, and challenge progress and completion forecasts, to identify schedule risk and required enablers
Essential
Your skills and experiences:
- Understanding of planning structures and principles
- Skilled user of modern planning systems planning/scheduling systems (e.g. Primavera P6, MSP)
- Excellent communication skills with proven stakeholders relationship management background
- Experience in Defence or related complex engineering or production environment
Desirable
- Detailed knowledge of full project lifecycle
Benefits
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers 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 Scheduling Team
The Scheduling team offers exciting career opportunities in this critical skill area and associated development activity. You will be responsible for the development and definition of Project activities which allow the assigning of resource and application of workable logic within the planning toolset. Liaising directly with the key project stakeholders you will monitor feedback and reports on the network schedules to both internal and external customers. You will be responsible for the development & definition of Level 1 and Level 2 schedules form Statement of Work/Project Control Account requirements aligning to the Naval Ships WBS
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 August 2025. Interviews will take place w/c 8th September.
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.
