Senior Project Controller
// Role Summary
Join BAE Systems as a Senior Project Controller to support project teams by developing plans, maintaining baselines, and reporting progress. You'll analyze performance, provide insights, and present findings to senior leaders to ensure effective cost, schedule, and milestone delivery.
// Key Responsibilities
- Support project teams in developing plans, maintaining baselines, and reporting progress.
- Analyze performance metrics, identify trends, and provide detailed programme insights.
- Present findings and recommended corrective actions to senior leaders.
- Assist Project Managers in managing cost, schedule, and quality through accurate data.
- Contribute to effective risk and opportunity management for successful project delivery.
- Utilize industry project controls toolsets such as Primavera, Microsoft Project, SAP, or Predict.
// Role Specification
About the Role:
Join BAE Systems as a Senior Project Controller and play a crucial role in supporting project teams. You will be responsible for developing comprehensive project plans, maintaining baselines, and diligently reporting on progress. Your expertise will be vital in analyzing performance metrics, identifying key trends, and providing detailed programme insights to senior leadership. This role is instrumental in ensuring the effective management of cost, schedule, and milestone delivery across our strategic programmes.
You will work closely with Project Managers, contributing to the meticulous management of cost, schedule, and quality through the application of accurate data and metrics. Your responsibilities will extend to assisting with monthly EAC and resource profiling, and actively participating in risk and opportunity management to guarantee the successful execution of projects within our Maritime & Land Sector businesses.
Core Duties and Responsibilities:
- Demonstrate comprehensive experience and knowledge of Project Control policies, processes, procedures, and systems.
- Utilize working knowledge of industry Project Controls toolsets such as Primavera, Microsoft Project, SAP, and Predict.
- Apply practical experience in intermediate Risk and Opportunity Management.
- Leverage business information toolsets and data analytics tools like Tableau and Microsoft Power BI.
- Support Project Managers in managing cost, schedule, and quality through accurate data and metrics.
- Assist with monthly EAC and resource profiling.
- Contribute to effective risk and opportunity management to ensure successful project delivery.
What We're Looking For:
- Comprehensive experience and knowledge of Project Control policies, processes, procedures, and systems.
- Working knowledge of industry Project Controls toolsets (e.g., Primavera, Microsoft Project, SAP, Predict).
- Experience with Intermediate Risk and Opportunity Management.
- Practical application of business information toolsets/data analytics (e.g., Tableau, Microsoft Power BI).
- Experience/knowledge in Baseline Control, Cost Estimating/Engineering, Resource Management, Quantity Surveying, Business Analysis, or Financial Management within project environments is advantageous.
- Holding a Project Management qualification/certification is advantageous.
About the Project Team:
By joining our team, you will collaborate using world-class project control techniques, providing essential expertise to support Project Managers in delivering exciting and strategically important programmes within our Maritime & Land Sector businesses. We foster a drive towards professionalism, offering support towards Chartership and ongoing career development.
Security and Eligibility:
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK, depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.