Project Controls Lead
4 weeks ago
Location: Crawley, United Kingdom
In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.
Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.
**Project Controls Lead**
- Hybrid role with flexibility to be based at any Thales UK main site
- Must be mobile/willing to travel at short notice / travel up to 3 days per week on a regular basis
**Our opportunity at a glance**:
As a member of the UK Delivery Assurance Team (DAT), the DAT Project Controls Lead is responsible for improving project performance by increasing the maturity of project controls, in particular planning and scheduling, risk/opportunity management including Schedule Risk Analysis (SRA), and Earned Value Management (EVM) capability across Thales in the UK. This includes hands-on leadership and guidance to actively support key bids and projects in a delivery assurance capacity.
You will have an outstanding track record covering the full project lifecycle from bid to closure and be recognised as an expert in project controls - planning, risk/opportunity, SRA and EVM. You must be capable of balancing many competing priorities from a functional and operational delivery perspective, working at a high tempo and influencing a broad network of stakeholders to make a real impact on delivery performance.
**Key tasks in more detail**:
The Project Controls Lead supports all project management activities, from bid initiation to project closure, and all bid and project stakeholders. You’ll make stakeholders converge on fundamental practices and tools for Bids and Project management and provide expertise and know-how in Bids and Projects for better performance throughout the bid/project life cycle through consistent practices (best practices, recommendations and coaching). Additionally, you will manage feedback for the benefit of bids and projects (associated processes, collection and sharing of feedback).
Hands-on support to Bids or Projects
- Support to Project setup and/or recovery
- Diagnosing performance issues, developing and implementing improvement plans
- Assurance reviews (analysis, diagnosis, recommendation)
- Project Controls components of Baseline Validation of Critical and B2 Bids
- Short-term dedicated support (E.g. at critical phases of a Bid or Project)
- Medium-term interim/transition management (in exceptional cases)
- Audits, Peer Reviews (internal and/or external) focussed on compliance to process and best practice
- Support risk/opportunity activities to improve bid and project maturity
Hands-on support to Portfolios and/or Business Domains:
- Coaching, mentoring and training
- Deployment of new capabilities
- Supporting organisational change activities
- Support risk/opportunity management/analysis activities to improve portfolio/domain maturity
**About You**:
- Subject matter expertise in planning, scheduling, risk/opportunity and EVM principles, processes and practices
- Adept at building robust and productive relationships in a complex environment with many stakeholders - within the function, transversally across functional and business unit boundaries
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills including written presentation and report writing
- Ability to lead project interventions in a matrix-style function and organisation
- The ability to assess, decipher, report and act upon salient performance information from a variety of indicators
- Significant experience of establishing and managing schedules on complex projects/programmes
- Experienced implementing and operating risk/opportunity and SRA on complex projects/programmes
- Demonstrable experience of implementing best practice in large and complex organisations
- Working in a leadership, energised/energising capacity and able to drive change with urgency and an absolute focus on outcomes and benefits
- The ability to design, deliver and secure planned benefits from change initiatives
**Benefits at Thales**
We strive to create an environment where you can prioritise your wellbeing and have designed our benefits to give you the flexibility and p
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