V03167 - Degree Apprentice Project Management
BAE SYSTEMS PLC
Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 3NB
Closes on Friday 28 February
Posted on 8 November 2024
Contents
Summary
Join us and help to define the future of global maritime defence capabilities. With approximately 3,500 employees based at five UK locations and revenue of £600million, we pride ourselves on employing the best professionals around and offer significant opportunities for committed employees to learn and grow with us.
- Annual wage
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Competitive
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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
- Training course
- Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Shifts to be confirmed.
37 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Monday 8 September
- Duration
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5 years
- Positions available
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4
Work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
The Project Manager degree apprenticeship is an excellent opportunity for individuals who want to develop high-level project management knowledge, behaviours and skills that enable you to work within or lead a project team. From day one, you will be trusted to deliver and oversee on projects, juggling tasks that enhance your organisational skills, interpersonal skills, strategic planning, and adaptability.
You will see first-hand how theoretical concepts like risk, stakeholder and resource management, are critical to delivering successful projects.
Your university experience will serve as the backbone of your apprenticeship, providing you with a breadth of knowledge to apply directly to your work.
Engaging lectures, immersive studies and working collaboratively will enhance your analytical skills and equip you with the latest tools and methodologies in project management. You will have the opportunity to apply what you have learned to real-world projects, gaining confidence and creativity in making decisions that impact the success of the project.
Working at BAE Systems you will be supported in a nurturing environment by experienced professionals and skills coaches who will mentor you and offer invaluable insights into how successful teams operate. Through active participation in meetings and discussions, you will learn how to navigate complex challenges, manage expectations, and contribute meaningfully to projects.
Specific activities could include:
Your day-to-day activities will be varied and exciting, offering you a broad exposure to the entire project lifecycle. You will set project goals, create timelines, monitor progress, and work closely with cross-functional teams. You will play a role in tracking budgets, managing resources, and identifying risks before they become issues. On top of that, you will use project management software, such as Microsoft Project, to keep everything on track, ensuring projects stay within scope and on schedule.
By the end of your apprenticeship, you will have more than just a qualification. You will have a rich portfolio of experiences, a deep understanding of both the theory and practice of project management, and the confidence to be innovative in a transformation environment.
Where you’ll work
BAE Systems
The Old Iron Foundry, PP204
The Parade, HM Naval Base
Portsmouth, Hampshire
PO1 3NB
Training
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
College or training organisation
BAE SYSTEMS PLC
Your training course
Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)
Equal to degree
Course contents
- Governance Frameworks: Lead and take responsibility for the project management plan as required by the governance structure. Apply techniques and project management methodologies as appropriate, dependent upon project complexity and criticality to the organisational environment in which a project is being delivered. Maintain, review and communicate a project business case for approval through the stages of a typical project lifecycle ensuring continued value for money and continued alignment with organisational objectives.
- The Business Environment: Identify and analyse the context, opportunities and challenges presented by projects in a range of organisational settings, appreciating the differences within both large and small organisations and in different industry sectors and the consequent need for tailoring. Identify the operating constraints that apply to projects including ethical, legal and regulatory considerations. This may include the green economy and the impacts of strategies for achieving net carbon zero by 2050.
- Stakeholder and communications management: Lead and take responsibility for the identification and analysis of internal and external stakeholders and their impact on the project. Manage an effective project communication plan across stakeholders with different cultural and physical barriers. Analyse information and communicate with stakeholders incorporating elements of feedback to understand and measure the effectiveness of planned communications. Effectively listen and influence others through negotiation and persuasion.
- Control of projects in terms of time, cost and quality: Manage the project within the constraints of time, cost and quality. Control expenditure and produce status reports as required, including control of costs against budgets, forecasting, and establishing performance indicators as required by funding sources. Measure progress and actual costs against plans to determine a full understanding of project performance. Identify, achieve and maintain quality standards appropriate to the context and specific requirements of project activities.
- Risk Management: Ensure that project risks, opportunities and issues are addressed using quantitative and qualitative methods to categorise risks and their impacts. Identify, evaluate and implement appropriate mitigation strategies, ensuring that mitigation actions are incorporated into the project plan and are implemented should they develop into issues. Manage risk through the regular review of a risk management plan, adopting appropriate strategies to manage both threats and opportunities.
- Commercial and Contract management: Maintain and evaluate different commercial contract and procurement types to select appropriate options for specific programmes and projects. Support effective contract management and the achievement of programme and project outcomes.
- Project Change Control: Dependent upon the size and complexity of a project, define and apply a recognised process to manage change in projects. Make effective decisions in the interests of a range of stakeholders with regards to change requests. Handle change within different project management methodologies.
- Schedule Management: Evaluate requirements and methods for data capture and analysis in a project environment. Evaluate project schedule integrity including identification and resolution of scheduling problems. Apply resource acquisition and management techniques to balance programme and project needs against resource demand. Negotiate the allocation and scheduling of internal and external resources to meet programme and project demands.
Your training plan
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- 5 GCSEs inc Maths & English (grade A*-C or 9-4 (or equivalent))
- Any (grade 96 UCAS Tariff Points)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Organisation skills
- Team working
About this company
At BAE Systems, we provide some of the world’s most advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions. We employ a skilled workforce of more than 93,000 people in around 40 countries. Working with customers and local partners, we develop, engineer, manufacture, and support products and systems to deliver military capability, protect national security, and keep critical information and infrastructure secure.
Company 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.
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Approximately 95% of apprentices choose to stay on with us. As a global business there are a world of opportunities – whether you decide to stay in the UK, or explore an overseas role.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BAE SYSTEMS PLC
Early Careers Recruitment Team
GART@baesystems.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000285776.
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Closes on Friday 28 February
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