Lead Project Professional - Delivery

BAE Systems; Weymouth; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defence contractor in the UK is seeking a Lead Project Professional to oversee the delivery of transformation projects within Integrated Combat Systems. The ideal candidate has substantial project management experience, excellent stakeholder engagement skills, and a background in defence or aerospace. This role offers a competitive salary and a range of hybrid working arrangements, alongside attractive employee benefits including health plans and a pension scheme.

Benefits

Employee share plans

Flexible health and wellbeing benefits

Pension scheme

Qualifications

• Validated experience delivering complex projects on time and within budget.
• Good stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Experience in defence or aerospace environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of transformation projects.
• Engage with senior stakeholders through project reporting.
• Manage budget, quality, scope, and critical project areas.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Communication Skills

Business Improvement Principles

Complex Project Delivery

Education

Project Management certification (PMQ, Prince2, or equivalent)

Job description

Lead Project Professional - Delivery

Location: Filton, Frimley, Weymouth. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: from £47,271 depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading the end-to-end delivery of transformation projects within Integrated Combat Systems
• Ensuring improvements remain aligned with key stakeholders and organisational priorities
• Driving key business improvements and managing both planned and reactive tasks to the highest standard
• Deploying relevant tools and techniques, ensuring team members and stakeholders understand their application, associated risks, and control measures, and can demonstrate competence
• Engaging regularly with senior stakeholders through project reporting, while managing budget, quality, scope, and other critical areas

Your skills and experiences:

• Validated experience delivering complex projects: ability to define scope, manage schedules, and deliver on time and within budget
• Good stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence across multiple layers and hold others accountable
• Experience within defence or aerospace environments
• Project Management certification (PMQ, Prince2, or equivalent)
• Understanding of early project lifecycle, from bid through to closure
• Familiarity with business improvement principles (e.g., Lean Six Sigma or similar)

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 Operational Excellence team:

Our team operates across three key pillars: Continuous Improvement, Tactical Delivery, and Transformation. Together, we drive strategic change and deliver impactful projects that shape the future of our submarine programmes.

As part of this dynamic environment, you’ll be at the forefront of transformation - leading complex projects within Integrated Combat Systems that influence the organisation at every level. We work in a challenging yet rewarding space, partnering with senior stakeholders and directors to deliver business improvements within a highly technical engineering context.

If you’re passionate about driving change, thrive on complexity, and want to make a tangible impact, this could be a great opportunity for you. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

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:

19th February 2026

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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