Project Controller

Job title: Project Controller

Location: Brough/Samlesbury. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements. Please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: £41,361+ depending on skills and experience

Referral Scheme Bonus: £1,000

Grade: D

You're expected to have completed 12 months in role prior to applying for an advertised vacancy and you should also discuss the internal opportunity with your line manager to ensure sustained business continuity and to further support your career development. We know there may be exceptional individual circumstances that impact this, in the first instance please discuss this with your line manager.

If you don't feel you can talk to your line manager, you can contact your HRBP.

PLEASE NOTE: Should you be invited for interview; you acknowledge that the Recruitment team will contact you and your line manager regarding your application for this opportunity.

What you’ll be doing:

Provide project control support to the PMs on the Hawk contracts on a day-to-day basis, with a consolidated view of the contract monthly and quarterly

Be a point of contact for the contract teams for any inputs / outputs and ad-hoc queries on a day to day basis, with a consolidated view of the contract on a monthly and quarterly basis

Report into the Hawk Project control Lead to give an integrated view of contracts

Financial Control: Management of Financial Baseline Change control through Project Control System with quarterly restatements through Contract Status Report process

Performance Management: completion of packs for cost and ops meetings monthly and quarterly with the KPI/PI measures defined across all Customer Contracts

Risk and Opportunity Management: monthly meetings and updates to the relevant databases, support to contract meetings and updates provided to PM

Scheduling: Update to the monthly schedules as required, or monthly Estimate to Complete update

General updates: Ensuring Basis of Estimates, dictionary statements, and other supporting information

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

A good understanding of project control capabilities

Proficient in Microsoft Packages, specifically Excel

Experience with budget management

Desirable:

Resource coordination experience

Experience using COBRA, COMPASS and JIRA

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The FastJet Support – Project Control team:

The Hawk Project Controller is responsible for producing a consolidated Fast Jet Support view to the contract team In support of the delivery Project Manager, Project Control Manager and Control Account Manager. This includes ensuring that a full labour and non labour view is available on risks, Contract Status Reports, Baseline Change Rests, and providing a full cost and ops view, synthesising messages to exec level to support the PM in any contract meetings & CSRs. Being the point of contact for the PMs and Contract teams.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

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. 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.