CAPEX Engineering Project Controller

Lonza Group Ltd.; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in life sciences is seeking a CAPEX Engineering Project Controller to join their innovative team. In this hybrid role, you will play a pivotal part in managing a diverse project portfolio, ensuring budgets and schedules are maintained effectively. Collaborating closely with project managers, you will analyze progress, identify risks, and support the development of customer expectations. Your expertise in project scheduling, financial control, and advanced Excel will be crucial in driving project success. If you are passionate about making a difference in the life sciences field and thrive in a dynamic environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Degree in Project Management, Business, Accounting, Finance, or Engineering preferred.
• Experience in project scheduling and financial control required.

Responsibilities

• Create and measure project schedules and cost forecasts across the portfolio.
• Report weekly KPIs and perform cost control analysis.

Skills

Project Scheduling

Financial Control

Advanced Excel

SAP

Cost Accounting

LEAN Thinking

Root Cause Analysis

Education

Degree in Project Management

Degree in Business

Degree in Accounting or Finance

Degree in Engineering

Tools

SAP

Excel

Job description

CAPEX Engineering Project Controller

Location: Slough - Hybrid working

Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across five continents. While we work in science, there’s no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that’s the kind of work we want to be part of.

Working across a typical 10m GPB / 80 project portfolio, the project controller is a key member of the project team and works directly with the project managers to help define the project's goals and objectives; creating baselines and then maintaining a project's budgets and schedules as they progress. By analyzing progress against plan, identifies risks and supports Project Manager mitigations. Supports the development of customer expectations by determining process operating normalities and makes process recommendations to improve performance.

Key responsibilities:

• Create then measure Project Schedules and Cost Forecasts across the Portfolio.
• Report weekly KPI’s (Cost, Schedule and Resource) & Performance Analysis in terms of cost control, schedule and forecast accuracy and perform analysis where required.
• Review cost and schedule estimates against established norms.
• Create project cost controlling and capitalization structures to efficiently manage the reporting and the capitalization of assets.
• Manage the monthly forecast cycle, accruals and make improvements to increase cashflow accuracy.
• Review prefunding cost estimates versus established norms and make appropriate recommendations.
• Support the Annual target setting for CAPEX and maintenance budgets.

Key requirements:

• Degree (preferred) Field of Study: Project Management, Business, Accounting or Finance, Engineering.
• Required: Project Scheduling Issuer PMI or similar. Preferred: Financial Control Issuer ACA/ACCA/CPA/CIA or similar.
• Advanced Excel knowledge, Experienced SAP user, Project Controls techniques such as (WBS elements, Process Orders, Internal Order etc.).
• Cost accounting experience. Experience with LEAN thinking particularly LEAN thinking and Root Cause Analysis.