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Project Controls Professional

• 00091064

Job title: Project Controls Professional

Location: Frimley. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements.

Salary: £33,202 per annum

What will you be doing:

• Ensuring the data for the UWS Risk & Opportunity Register, which is held in the Submarines Active Risk Manager (ARM) tool, is kept up to date.
• Leading on regular reviews with the risk and opportunity owners. Ensuring mitigation actions are progressed with the action owners. Developing the maturity of new candidate risks & opportunities with owners.
• Presenting, on behalf of the Line Manager, the case for approval of any risk drawdowns or opportunity realisation to the ICS Dreadnought Risk & Opportunity Review Board. Acting as the UWS risk & opportunity representative into the ICS Dreadnought PMO.

• Supporting the Line Manager in managing change to the UWS Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) schedule, through the formal Submarines' Change Request (PMBCR) process. Raising the change formally in the Submarine's PMBCR SAP tool.
• Working with the relevant P6 planners to ensure an accurate representation of the change is reflected in the PMBCR supporting information "backing-sheet".
• Managing/tracking the change through the various stages of approvals and maintaining the UWS status tracker of all UWS PMBCRs.
• Liaising with the UWS Lead planner to ensure that all approved changes are implemented into the UWS Primavera P6 baseline and forecast plans in the defined monthly update window.

• After completing the relevant training, assisting the Line Manager in the monthly analysis, and reporting of Earned Value (EV) variances.
• Engaging with the Product Leads to ascertain the causes of the variances and agreeing any recovery actions that may be required and all actions from EV analysis are completed.

Spend Management

• Working with the Deputy CAM, Lead Planner and Line Manager to evaluate actual Labour spend against forecast demand and to identify corrective actions, where required, as part of the monthly progress update cycle.
• Ensuring that each Product Lead updates their Materials Spend Management Template each month, so that the procurements placed with suppliers and their milestone payment profiles are accurately represented in both the Materials Spend Management Template and in SAP. This is an important enabler for the quarterly Estimate At Completion submissions and the monthly Earned Value analysis.

UWS Assumptions, Exclusions and Dependencies (AD&E) Register

• Holding reviews with each of the Product Leads monthly to check the status of the contents of the AD&E register, with specific focus on managing dependency dates.

Your skills and qualifications:

Essential

• Project management experience.
• Demonstrable experience in planning / project controls within a complex technical/engineering environment.
• Excellent communications skills and the ability to engage with a range of stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.

Desirable

• APM or Prince 2 qualification or similar Project Management qualification.

• Experience in MS Office applications (Outlook and Excel) including Primavera, MS Project and SAP.

• Experience in managing a risk register using a commercial tool, e.g. ARM and application of EVM.

Benefits:

Our employees receive an excellent benefits package which includes a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. We also offer a range of additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and many local and national employee discounts. Some employees may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Under Water Surveillance Team:

As the Project Controls Professional, you will be an integral part of a small team that is responsible for providing the project controls services to the wider UWS Team. The UWS control account comprises of several distinct but related product areas, each head up by a Product Lead with their own product teams. The UWS Control Account Manager is ultimately accountable for delivery of all the products into the Dreadnought build programme.

BAE Systems:

BAE Systems is one of the world’s leading global defence, security and aerospace companies. We work at the cutting edge of technology, creating more than 100 new inventions every year for customers in over 100 countries.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and/or your place of birth may limit those roles that you can perform for the organisation.

Due to the volume of applications, we receive, we sometimes close our vacancies early. It is therefore advisable to apply as early as possible if you would like to be considered for a role with BAE Systems.

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