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Manufacturing Project Controller

MBDA · Bolton, UK
Clearance Level
BPSS
Salary Range
£36,000 - 45,000
Employment Type
FULL TIME
Work Style
hybrid

// Role Summary

Join our growing Project Control function as a Project Planner or Project Controller, where you'll manage manufacturing plans, ensure projects meet schedule, cost, and scope, and develop your career in a supportive environment.

// Key Responsibilities

  • Create and maintain manufacturing plans.
  • Manage project schedules and forecasts, identifying variances.
  • Validate cost control methods and support budget mitigation.
  • Contribute to Integrated Baseline Management (budget & schedule).
  • Produce data to support project health reporting.

// Role Specification

About the Role

With the recent growth across our Project Control function, we have opportunities for enthusiastic and motivated Project Planners and Project Controllers to join our team. You will have the opportunity to grow your skills and develop your career within a collaborative and encouraging environment. This role is based within the manufacturing environment, ensuring that our products are built to schedule, cost, and scope.

The Project Controller will be responsible for the creation and maintenance of manufacturing plans, reporting into both manufacturing and core project teams.

Key Responsibilities

  • Validation of Cost Control methods in Project environments: Ability to forecast and apportion costs as accurate and appropriate. The assessment of outlying forecasts, to support the Estimate at Completion (EAC) and reinforce Project production data. Comparing actuals and forecasts to identify variances to budget, and support mitigation or corrective action.
  • Schedule Assessment: Steering the validation of Project level schedules as accurate, coherent and in accordance with the Programme planning principles. Interfacing into various stakeholders to validate P6 schedules/forecasts across a variety of business disciplines.
  • Integrated Baseline Management: Leading the generation of the Integrated Baseline (budget & schedule) in order to successfully deliver the programme in accordance with planning principles and project governance (change control).
  • Project Reporting: Responsible for producing data to support project health. Analysing cost and schedule data.