Project Controller

Expleo Group; Prestwick; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ExpleoAcademy

Competitive benefits

Disability Confident employer

Collaborative environment

Job summary

Expleo Group is recruiting a Project Controller to support an aerospace contract across Prestwick. The role covers schedule development, reporting, cost control, and risk management within the Program Management Project team.

You will liaise with Finance, Commercial, and internal functions to ensure accurate performance metrics. The position is based at the customer site in Prestwick with involvement in stakeholder calls and template standardisation.

Qualifications

• Good understanding of program planning principles and drivers.
• Ability to lead projects and delegate/manage tasks.
• Management and understanding of local and corporate processes.
• Previous experience of working in a project environment.

Responsibilities

• Assist in developing and maintaining accurate schedules to support projects.
• Support Project Management Best Practices across the project.
• Assist Project Manager with plans, activities, and non-recurring phases.
• Develop and review KPIs and prepare customer reports.
• Coordinate reporting packs for monthly Program Reviews.
• Support reporting and budget monitoring with Finance and Commercial teams.
• Maintain standard reporting templates and stakeholder logs.

Skills

Program planning

Project management

Financial analysis

Communication

Stakeholder engagement

Data interpretation

People management

Decision making

Job description

Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation.
We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe.
We are currently recruiting a Project Controller to support one of our Aerospace customers contract to control all project management activity within the Program Management Project team including the development and maintenance of project business processes and documentation to comply with Corporate Project Management Best Practices, maintenance of action logs, level 1 plans, resource management and Risk and Opportunity management. The hourly rate is negotiable based on experience, seniority, etc. The successful candidate(s) will play a key role in delivering a high-quality service to our client and will be expected to be proactive and self-motivated in delivering the targeted outputs to support the product.
The successful candidate will be based both on the customer's site in Prestwick and will report directly to the Engineering Team Leader.

Responsibilities

• Assist in developing and maintaining accurate Development and / or Production Schedules to support projects.
• Support the introduction and maintenance of Project Management Best Practices across the project.
• Assist Project Manager to create, and control the configuration of, all Project and functional level plans and activities during the non-recurring phase of new projects and major changes to existing projects.
• Assist the Project Manager in the development, reporting and ongoing review of appropriate performance metrics. Ensure accurate reporting through the maintenance of topical KPIs.
• Maintain Customer reports and presentations including the co-ordination of information for major programme and plan reviews.
• Assist the Project Manager in liaising with Finance and Commercial focal’s to support accurate reporting, monitoring and control of spend against Project budgets.
• Co-ordination and review of reporting packs for all Customer monthly Program Reviews.
• Assist Senior Project Controllers and Project Managers in managing the Opportunities and Risk process at local level, including, managing interfaces with internal functions.
• Maintain and develop (where applicable) ‘standard templates’ for reporting and presenting.
• Co-ordinate and host stakeholder calls and management of action item logs.

Essential Skills

• Good understanding of program planning principles and drivers
• Project management skills to drive multi disciplines to support deliverables
• Financial and analytical skills
• Good written and communication skills
• Ability to communicate across management levels
• Confident in understanding other functions and challenging data where appropriate
• Good people skills / ability to manage others as applicable
• Authority to make day to day low/medium terms decisions
• Authority to interpret and report data in a manner of different ways for various inputs to management and finance
• Authority to make recommendations to First Level Management on output of various analysis and determine corrective actions required if applicable

Experience

• Good understanding of program planning principles and strategic drivers
• Ability to lead projects and delegate/manage tasks
• Management and understanding of local and corporate processes
• Previous experience of working in a project environment

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment - we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ourpeers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• ExpleoAcademy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo
• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
  • Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
  • Communicating and promoting vacancies
  • Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
  • Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
  • Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive