Senior Project Controller

2 months ago

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom Thales Part time
Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

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.

Senior Planner / Senior Project Controller

Location: Glasgow - Hybrid working

Do you have a proven background as a Project Planner / Project Controller? Do you want to work on mission-critical Projects with cutting-edge technology? We currently have exciting opportunities for Project Planner / Controllers at varying levels of experience in Glasgow.

What the roles have to offer:
  • The opportunity to put your skills to use on complex engineering projects that make a real impact to our customers and their users across the globe
  • Opportunity to join a vibrant industry with lots of growth potential in the UK and overseas export contracts.

Our Opportunity

We are looking for talented individuals who can bring strength and capability to Project Management teams, with a professional background in Project Planning / Controls. Your primary focus will be on developing and maintaining robust project baselines, deploying best practice controls, using data from the project to proactively identify trends/variances/risks and preparing accurate and succinct reports for management attention.

Project Planners / Controllers in Thales are a critical part of the Project Management team. Day to day you will work closely with one or more Project Managers and Project Technical Leaders, but you will also be part of a much larger Project community which will support your professional development with coaching/mentoring, targeted training and professional certification as appropriate.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:
  • Responsible for the generation, baseline and monitoring/control of the WBS, schedule, work package management, EAC, Earned Value Management and associated metrics for their area of responsibility in line with the Business Rhythm.
  • Ensure update of project schedules to reflect progressed/completed work, with estimates to complete (ETC) established via allocation of required budget and resources to outstanding scheduled activities.
  • Support the communication of all key milestones, objectives and programme position.
  • Support the effective and efficient process for managing Cost and Schedule Change Control.
  • Support Risk Management process, risk reviews and modelling.

About you:
  • We are seeking someone with proven experience working as a Project Planner / Project Controller, ideally within the defence (or similar sector)
  • Someone who has experience using Primavera P6 to create and maintain Integrated Master Schedules (IMS), conduct Change Control, Forecasting, Deploying KPIs, Variance Analysis, Risk & Opportunity Management, Project Governance and Project Reporting.
  • You will bring structure to complex situations, have a keen eye for detail and the ability evaluate, interpret distil and communicate complex information.

The successful candidate will need full Security Clearance (SC) for this particular role -For more information and guidance please visit the UKSV website*

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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