Defence Programme Lead: Infrastructure & Budget

Rolls-Royce; West of England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Rolls-Royce Defence in Bristol seeks a Programme Lead to drive delivery of infrastructure projects within the GCAP framework. You will report to the Programme Manager, coordinate engineering activities, manage budgets and risk, and lead integrated teams to meet key milestones for UK MoD programmes.

The role emphasizes project planning, cost control, and schedule integration, with a focus on security clearance and UK national requirements. This is a staff role with a competitive salary.

Qualifications

• Experience leading defence infrastructure projects.
• Knowledge of SAP for cost control and budgets.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a key work package for new infrastructure with advanced capabilities for our MoD Customer.
• Lead on the establishment of the required control accounts needed to manage the Capital Works budgets, including the required SAP management.
• Flow down the relevant budgets and Coupa orders for the internal and external supply chain teams.
• Prepare the required internal and external cost reporting deliverables, including actuals versus budget and deltas from baseline.
• Develop and report associated financial and schedule metrics.
• Integrate Package Order changes into the Control Accounts and report deliverables.
• Work with the Project delivery leads, prepare and report the infrastructure integrated master schedule, highlighting critical path and key dependencies.
• Lead the risk identification and risk management process for the Capital Works contract.
• Provide the risk information required to support Package Order applications and on-going review.
• Provide the required information for the Capital Works Operational Reviews and internal reporting requirements.
• Support change management activities.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Defence industry experience

Tools

Primavera P6

Primavera Cloud

SAP

Microsoft Office

Job description

Rolls-Royce Defence in Bristol seeks a Programme Lead to drive delivery of infrastructure projects within the GCAP framework. You will report to the Programme Manager, coordinate engineering activities, manage budgets and risk, and lead integrated teams to meet key milestones for UK MoD programmes.

The role emphasizes project planning, cost control, and schedule integration, with a focus on security clearance and UK national requirements. This is a staff role with a competitive salary.