Project Management Professional

Lead Sourcing Specialist - BAE Recruitment Centre at AMS

Job Title: Project Management Professional
Salary: Up to £40,000 dependent on skills and experience
Location: Scotstoun – Hybrid and flexible working arrangements available – discuss options with your recruiter

• Assist the Project Manager in coordinating day‑to‑day project activities, ensuring tasks are completed on time and to the required standard.
• Apply planning and scheduling knowledge to review and interrogate project activities, ensuring plans are realistic, integrated, and reflective of current progress.
• Assist in the management of assigned cost accounts, helping to ensure delivery to agreed budget, schedule, and quality targets.
• Coordinate and control project change, ensuring impacts are understood and recorded, while supporting continuous improvement across the programme and wider business.
• Support the identification and management of project risks and opportunities, maintaining accurate records and contributing to effective mitigation and exploitation strategies.
• Maintain a strong focus on milestone achievement, contract deliverables, and acceptance events, ensuring they are clearly tracked and proactively managed.

• Experience working in a project environment, with a good understanding of project management tools, techniques, and practices, and the ability to apply these in routine situations while following guidance in more complex scenarios.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to gather, interpret, and consolidate information to support sound judgement and decision‑making.
• Effective communication and stakeholder‑management skills, with the ability to influence, build rapport, and convey information clearly singing diplomatically.
• Awareness of the project lifecycle, with an understanding of key stages, processes, and controls involved in delivering successful projects.
• Experience with in a complex engineering / defence / manufacturing environment.
• Familiarity with project governance frameworks and reporting processes within a large or complex organisation.

Competitive işleeter pension scheme, employee share plans, flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits (including green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts). You may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

Join our Project Management team and play a key role in delivering some of the UK’s most complex and innovative naval programmes. You will work collaboratively with a wide range of UK and international stakeholders, contributing to projects that shape the future of maritime capability. This is a dynamic and supportive environment where every challenge presents an opportunity to learn, grow and strengthen your professional network.

At BAE Systems, you will have access to a wide range of development opportunities, including support towards achieving further professional qualifications, enabling you to build a rewarding and long‑term career.

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 work to make our recruitment processes as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia mdropster autism, an anxiety disorder etc.)

that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

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, at 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.

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Closing Date: 27th January 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.

Seniority level: Entry level

Employment type: Full‑time

Job function: Project Management and Information Technology

Industries: Defence and Space Manufacturing