Project Controller

BAE Systems (New); Portsmouth; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an established industry player as a Project Controller, where your expertise will help shape the future of exciting maritime and land projects. You'll leverage your skills in project control to support planning and monitoring, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget. This role offers a hybrid working model, allowing you to balance your professional and personal life while contributing to significant programs that make a real difference. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this company fosters an environment where every voice is valued, and your career development is supported. If you're looking for a role that empowers you to fulfill your potential, this is the opportunity for you.

Benefits

Employee share plans

Flexible health benefits

Green car scheme

Private health plans

Shopping discounts

Pension scheme

Qualifications

• Comprehensive knowledge of Project Control policies and procedures.
• Experience with Project Control tools and techniques.

Responsibilities

• Support planning, monitoring, and control of various projects.
• Collaborate with teams to manage project scope and budget.

Skills

Project Control policies

Project Control tools

Risk Management

Variance Analysis

Cost Estimating

Tools

Primavera

Microsoft Project

SAP

Predict

Tableau

Microsoft Power BI

Job description

Job title:Project Controller

Location: Frimley, Broad Oak, Portsmouth Naval Base, Cowes – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements as well as job sharing for this role– please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Up to £50,000 dependent on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Using your range of skills, you will support with the planning, monitoring and control of projects which will range in size and complexity
• You will be supporting the Project teams to create project plans and control baselines as well as record, verify and report on project progress
• Identify programme performance variances and any mitigation/opportunities
• Collaborate and build strong relationships with various team project members to ensure the management of project scope, change, budget and forecasting aspects
• Oversee scheduling, Key Performance Indicator’s, variance analysis (including Earned Value),
• Risk and opportunity management
• Project Controls governance and reporting

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of Project Control policies, processes, procedures and systems.
• Comprehensive understanding of one or more Project Control tools techniques and practices.
• Working knowledge of industry Project Controls toolsets e.g. Primavera, Microsoft Project, SAP, Predict
• Experience with Intermediate Risk and Opportunity Management

Desirable:

• Practical application of business information toolsets/data analytics e.g. Tableau, Microsoft Power BI
• Experience in Project Controls, Baseline Control, Cost Estimating/Engineering, Resource Management, Quantity Surveying, Business Analysis or Financial Management within project environments

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Project Team:

By joining the team, you will be working together and using world-class project control techniques to provide expertise with supporting Project Managers in the delivery of exciting and strategically important programmes within our Maritime & Land Sector businesses.

The business has a drive towards professionalism, this includes support towards Chartership and further career development.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.

Closing Date:9th May 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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