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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 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.

THALES are looking to recruit a Project Controller to be based in either Bristol or Crawley for our Under Water Systems division.

A global leader supporting defence, government and critical national infrastructure clients, Thales is firmly established as a world-leading designer, manufacturer and provider of wide-ranging technology and systems for secure and dependable communications on land, at sea and in the air.

We are looking for a talented 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.

• Implementing and operating change control across programmatic baselines - ensuring clarity over the Performance Management Baseline (PMB) and forecasts vs the PMB at all times
• Performance Management
• Analysis and reporting
• Ensuring 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
• For more senior positions, providing coaching and guidance on best practise Project Controls to Project Teams
• Where necessary support the “troubleshooting” of problem projects
• Facilitating independent and/or peer reviews on assigned project(s)
• Ensuring all deployed processes and tools are compliant with relevant company processes
• Where appropriate, providing Subject Matter Expertise for deployed tools
• Promoting a continuous improvement culture to Project Control processes: creating innovative solutions to improve local efficiency, ensuring ‘lessons learned’ are captured and incorporated, contributing to wider capability improvement across the Thales PMO community
• Support ad-hoc duties that will be consistent with the nature of a Project Controller position within Thales

The successful candidate will need full Security Clearance (SC) -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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