Project Controller

Location: Bristol, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

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 the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, 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.

**Senior Project Controller**

**Location: Bristol / Crawley**

**What the role has to offer**:

- Working in an exciting new business line: AWS (Above Water Systems)
- You will be joining at the initial project stages and will be able to establish project control disciplines
- Potential for internal mobility opportunity within the Business line.

**What we can offer you?**

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes;
- Performance Related Bonus
- Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00pm
- Pension Scheme
- 28 days annual leave (Plus Bank Holidays)
- Life Cover
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
- Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
- Gym membership discounts

**About the team**

You will be joining a friendly new & emerging team. They are based across the UK and NL, working across the Crawley, Bristol and Hengelo sites. You will be working closely with the Project Manager within a mission systems team, delivering bids and projects to the customer.

**Our Opportunity**

Thales AWS (Above Water Systems) have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Controller to join the Project Management Team by providing specialised Project Controls support including the provision of accurate, integrated and meaningful bid and / or project planning and reporting.

You will be required to ensure best practice Project Controls are deployed across bids and projects in accordance with defined Thales processes and that data from those Controls is interpreted and clearly presented as actionable information for Project Leadership and Senior Management decision-making. You will also ensure that all Projects have a robust Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and Performance Management Baseline (PMB).

You will be responsible for the deployment and performance of Project Controls within a Portfolio or Project. As well as identifying trends, analysis of variances and recommending appropriate corrective actions. You should also ensure a strong focus on proactive risk and opportunity management, including identification and support to the resolution of cross-portfolio risks/issue themes. Additionally, you will need to identity and track cross-portfolio dependencies.

You will be responsible for establishing and operating an appropriate business rhythm/drumbeat E.g. ETC Reviews, Schedule Reviews, Risk Reviews, Reporting Activities. As well as this, consolidate reports, ensuring that reports are issued in a timely manner, and the facilitation of Project reviews. You will also be working with Project leadership to identify and implement appropriate metrics.

Lastly, you will ensure resource forward load is accurate and timely, including the analysis of resource profiles (labour and material) and making recommendations to reconcile anomalies and optimise deployment.

**There will be infrequent travel required to customer sites across the UK and occasional trips to the Netherlands.**

**About You**

You will have a strong track record of successfully designing, deploying, operating and/or improving the full range of Project Controls in a context relevant to Thales.

You will be able to build strong relationships with key stakeholders in complex environments and working across functional boundaries.

You will have an awareness and understanding of advanced Project Control techniques E.g. Earned Value Management and Schedule Risk Analysis, with experience of deploying these techniques for more senior positions.

Lastly, you will be able to define and implement appropriate KPIs to understand progress and provide insight into likely future performance.

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