Project Controller

Thales; Stockport; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the defence sector is seeking a Project Controller to support critical projects. The role involves providing PMO leadership, developing schedules, and ensuring effective project planning. The successful candidate will work in a hybrid environment, balancing office and remote work, while benefiting from a competitive salary and extensive development opportunities.

Benefits

Half day every Friday

Pension Scheme

28 days annual leave

Life Cover

24/7 Employee Assistance Program

Employee discount shopping schemes

Gym membership discounts

Career Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience in planning, scheduling, data analysis & cost control.
• Hands-on experience in complex engineering/manufacturing environments.

Responsibilities

• Produce and maintain a baseline schedule for project requirements.
• Generate an accurate critical path for project team communication.
• Assist in developing Work Breakdown Structures for projects.

Skills

Project Controls

Data Analysis

Cost Control

Problem Solving

Tools

Oracle Primavera

Microsoft Project

Job description

Location: Cheadle, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Project Controller

Based Cheadle, Bristol or Templecombe – hybrid, working 3 days per week in the office

Do you have a genuine interest in Project Controls? Do you want to work on mission-critical Projects with cutting-edge technology? Are you an inquisitive individual that likes to identify risks and opportunities and solve problems?

What the role has to offer:

• Career development and a great opportunity to develop into Senior Project Controller role.
• Working within a friendly & supportive team
  
  
  

What we offer you?

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes;

• Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00pm
• Pension Scheme
• 28 days annual leave (Plus Bank Holidays)
• Life Cover
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
• Gym membership discounts
• Career Development opportunities
  
  
  

Our opportunity

We are looking to recruit a passionate and driven Project Controller to join Thales Underwater Systems (UWS)

You will be responsible for providing PMO leadership in the delivery of our customer commitments supporting the Project Management Team by providing an effective specialised Project Control including the provision of accurate, integrated and meaningful bid and / or project planning and reporting. This will include monitoring, analysing and reporting on bid /project schedules to ensure that information is used in bid / project decision-making based upon the status of the most up to date schedule.

Some of the Key Responsibilities:

• Produce and maintain a baseline schedule to underpin the project requirements ensuring the level of detail is correct for the type and complexity of project; tasks are logically linked correctly in accordance with the design lifecycle; all technical and non-technical requirements are reflected and all internal and external dependencies are accurately captured and linked to show any schedule impact on movement of dates.
• Making use of layout to ensure that schedule can be easily presented and understood by the project team
• Generate an accurate and meaningful critical path which can be communicated to the Project Team enabling issues to be reconciled and decisions made to assist in the recovery of slippage, where applicable.
• Provide assistance in the development of Work Breakdown Structures for a project or work stream which effectively reflects and communicates the project to Stakeholders.
• Create and maintaining accurate project resource profiles ensuring any overloads are easily identified for resolution.
  
  
  

The successful candidate will need full Security Clearance (SC) -For more information and guidance please visit the UKSV website*

About You:

You will have proven successful “hands-on” experience in planning; scheduling, data analysis & cost control within a complex engineering/manufacturing environment covering high level & detailed schedule compilation, programme reporting, budgeting & risk management and can demonstrate resilience

You will have ideally have working knowledge / application of scheduling tools such as Oracle Primavera and Microsoft Project

You will have a thorough understanding of planning techniques – for example; the application of critical path analysis, work breakdown structures etc…

You will have a high level of proficiency in the use of project planning tools and standard business administration software.

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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