Job Description:

Your Impact

As a Project Manager in the Mission Support product area, you’ll manage the delivery of software products that help enhance Leonardo’s Electronic Warfare, Platform Protection and Sensing capabilities for platforms including Wedgetail, A400M, Typhoon, NMH, and GCAP.

You will play a key role within an Integrated Project Team, ensuring software development and support activities run smoothly and efficiently while contributing to the operational advantage of our armed forces.

What You Will Do

Project Delivery

- Manage day‑to‑day delivery of software development or support projects

- Maintain project plans, schedules, milestones and deliverables

- Track progress against cost, schedule and quality objectives

Support Governance & Reporting

- Prepare project status reports for internal reviews

- Support risk, issue and dependency management

- Maintain accurate financial tracking and forecasting

Team Collaboration

- Work closely with engineering, commercial, procurement and capability functions as part of an IPT

- Contribute to a collaborative and accountable team culture

Stakeholder Engagement

- Liaise with internal stakeholders and support customer engagements

- Support bids, proposals and estimating activities

What You’ll Bring

- Experience delivering or supporting engineering or software projects

- Strong organisational and communication skills

- Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities

- Understanding of project control fundamentals (schedule, cost, risk)

- A positive, proactive, can‑do approach

- Willingness to learn, grow and take on increasing responsibility

Security Clearance

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV). For more information and guidance please visit: https://careers.uk.leonardo.com/gb/en/security-and-vetting

Why join us

At Leonardo, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We offer a comprehensive, company-funded benefits package that supports your wellbeing, career development, and work–life balance. Whether you're looking to grow professionally, care for your health, or plan for the future, we’re here to help you thrive.

• Time to Recharge: Enjoy generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days each year.
• Secure your Future: Benefit from our award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
• Your Wellbeing Matters: Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led networks championing inclusion and diversity (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Armed Forces, Carers, Wellbeing and Ethnicity).
• Rewarding Performance: All employees at management level and below are eligible for our bonus scheme.
• Never Stop Learning: Free access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning.
• Refer a friend: Receive a financial reward through our referral programme.
• Tailored Perks: Spend up to £500 annually on flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental, family cover, tech & lifestyle discounts, gym memberships and more.
• Flexible working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part time opportunities, please talk to us about what might be possible for this role.

For a full list of our company benefits please visit our website.

Leonardo is a global leader in Aerospace, Defence, and Security. Headquartered in Italy, we employ over 53,000 people worldwide including 8,500 across 9 sites in the UK. Our employees are not just part of a team—they are key contributors to shaping innovation, advancing technology, and enhancing global safety.

At Leonardo we are committed to building an inclusive, accessible, and welcoming workplace. We believe that a diverse workforce sparks creativity, drives innovation, and leads to better outcomes for our people and our customers. If you have any accessibility requirements to support you during the recruitment process, just let us know.

Be part of something bigger - apply now!

Primary Location:

GB - Luton - Cap. Green 300

Additional Locations:

GB - Lincoln

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hybrid Working:

Hybrid