Senior Specialist: Project Governance & Assurance

AT&S; Leoben; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onboarding program

Modern canteen

Free parking

E-charging stations

Employee benefits

Health measures

Job summary

AT&S in Leoben, Austria, is seeking a Senior Specialist Project Governance & Assurance to set the standard for enterprise governance and assurance, independently challenging project health and turning insights into sustainable improvements.

Responsibilities include developing governance methodologies, assessing program health, and driving corrective actions with senior stakeholders while leveraging analytics and AI to increase efficiency.

Qualifications

• University degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Finance or a related field.
• Significant professional experience in project or program management, enterprise PMO, project governance, project assurance or project controls.
• Proven experience in designing or significantly improving project governance or assurance frameworks and conducting independent project or program reviews.
• Strong understanding of project controls, including schedule, cost, forecasting, risk, change and baseline management.
• Strong analytical judgement with the ability to turn complex project information into clear, evidence-based findings and recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously develop the enterprise project governance and assurance methodology, ensuring a consistent, effective and risk-based approach across the organization.
• Independently assess the health of projects and programs, evaluating delivery confidence, governance effectiveness, project controls and key risks based on clear evidence.
• Act as a trusted independent challenger to project managers, sponsors, PMO Hubs and senior stakeholders, challenging assumptions and ensuring material governance and project-health risks receive appropriate attention.
• Drive assurance findings and agreed corrective actions through to sustainable closure by ensuring clear accountability, verifying evidence and escalating unresolved issues where required.
• Identify recurring patterns, root causes and systemic weaknesses across assurance activities and translate them into improvements in governance, methodology and organizational project-management maturity.
• Provide independent assurance opinions and recommendations on project health, governance effectiveness and systemic delivery risks to relevant senior management and governance bodies.
• Support project-management maturity assessments, audits and management reviews, and coach relevant stakeholders on governance and assurance weaknesses identified through reviews.
• Identify opportunities to improve the efficiency and quality of governance and assurance through automation, analytics and AI.

Skills

Project governance

Project assurance

Stakeholder management

Analytical judgement

Communication skills

English proficiency

Education

University degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Finance or related field

Job description

AT&S in Leoben, Austria, is seeking a Senior Specialist Project Governance & Assurance to set the standard for enterprise governance and assurance, independently challenging project health and turning insights into sustainable improvements.

Responsibilities include developing governance methodologies, assessing program health, and driving corrective actions with senior stakeholders while leveraging analytics and AI to increase efficiency.