A Career Without Limits
As the nation’s flag carrier, we take great pride in connecting Britain with the world and the world with Britain.
It’s something we’ve been doing for over 100 years, ever since we launched the world’s first international scheduled air service between London and Paris.
Since then, British Airways has gone on to deliver game-changing achievements. First we broke the record for the fastest transatlantic flight with Concorde. Then we became the very first airline to introduce fully lie-flat seats on board.
It was our exceptional engineering teams that brought these pioneering and original ideas to life.
This is your chance to join one of the most diverse and innovative departments at British Airways, at a time when we’re re-imagining the way we fly the skies.
The role:
Project Manager - Engineering & Maintenance
External Applicants - 18 Months Fixed Term Contract
Internal Applicants - 18 Months Secondment
Management of an assigned BA Roadmap project or projects (or stream(s) within a larger programme), to successfully deliver the defined business objectives, using a consistent approach and governance structure, on time, to budget and with the agreed scope and quality.
What you’ll do:
The Project Manager roles are a critical element in the effective delivery of the Engineering & Maintenance Transformation Roadmap, covering areas such as programme and project management, financial management, resource management, plan/schedule management, scope management, waterfall and agile ways of working. The role holder will be responsible for:
• The delivery of all project management activities within projects assigned from the Engineering & Maintenance Transformation Roadmap (or stream(s) within a larger programme), ensuring highly effective deployment into steady state, including deployment of continuous improvement capability.
• Ensuring delivery to agreed specifications, timescales and budget whilst adhering to internal control needs.
• Planning, scheduling, financial management, estimating and forecasting all elements of the projects assigned
• Risk, Assumption, Issue and Dependency Management
• Creation and maintenance of robust financial criteria and management structures for each project assigned
• Building and sustaining strong working relationships with accountable business owners and senior managers on their projects. Acts as a trusted advisor and business partner, in the successful delivery of projects
• Define resource demand forecast and managing resource levels ensuring both budget targets and programme/portfolio objectives are achieved
What you’ll bring to British Airways:
• Good effective leadership, communication, influencing at all levels (written and verbal) and successfully manage expectations
• Demonstrable experience of successful delivery of projects across functions and directorates.
• Understanding of working in a safety critical and technical environment
• Ability to effectively lead and motivate individuals & teams (direct/indirect), working collaboratively to deliver results in a matrix management environment
• Good individual and team management
• Proven ability to work under pressure
• Risk management with risks identified, options agreed & plan in place.
• Contingency planning –in depth knowledge of both contingency planning and mitigation.
• Ability to challenge the status quo where necessary through well structured and fact driven arguments
• Budget, schedule and scope management
• External and internal supplier management including contract management and negotiation.
• Engaging approachable leader
• Clear and articulate communicator
• Good individual and team leadership and management
• Highly organised and structured
• Delivers in defined structured manner
• Business need focused in a customer setting
• Meets deadlines, Cost and Scope parameters
• Makes decisions within defined parameters affecting the outcomes of their project based on the facts available
• Looks to continuously improve in everything they do
• Good stakeholder and relationship
Your experience:
• Professional Programme Management accreditation (. MOP, MSP, PMP, P3O or Prince 2) preferred
• Degree qualification is advantageous but not essential.
• Agile methodology (SAFe) desirable
• Aviation experience preferred
What we offer:
As an airline, we never want to stand still. The same goes for our people.
We’re committed to upskilling our engineers and providing professional development training so you can progress in your area of expertise. That way, you’ll attain the highest levels of professional achievement as we continue to invest in new technology, equipment, and aircraft.
Training modules are offered through self-study courses, or structured learning programmes, and delivered at our state-of-the-art Learning Academy at London Heathrow.
When you work in an engineering role at British Airways, you’ll be joining a high-performance culture. It’s a time-pressured environment too, but the challenges here are exciting and diverse, and you’ll be part of projects you won’t find anywhere else. That’s what keeps our exceptional colleagues inspired to do their best work. We also offer fantastic rewards, including great staff travel benefits.
Inclusion & Diversity
At British Airways we all have a part to play in creating an inclusive place to work. Diverse representation among our people is really important to us and we recognise that all our colleagues are uniquely different and bring their own originality, creativity and identity to work.
Inclusion and diversity is a key driver of innovation and we’re committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they can be themselves. We’re looking for people from all backgrounds and cultures to join us and be a part of our journey to become a Better BA as we continue to connect Britain with the world and the world with Britain.