Programme / Project Controller [26172]

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Noordwijk; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

HE Space is an international space company providing managed services and HR to the space sector. The role covers programmatic control, cost, finance, documentation and risk management to ensure full visibility on resources and progress.

You will work with SAP, MS Excel, and MS Project to establish budgets, monitor performance, and support contract negotiations within the European space projects in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Engineering or MBA or equivalent university degree with project control background.
• Experience in aerospace industry and/or Satcom is preferred.
• Experience in maintaining Cost at Completion, forecasting, and risk management is desirable.
• Experience with project management and project control principles in industrial procurement.

Responsibilities

• Assist in preparation and maintenance of cost, finance, documentation and progress control with full visibility on resources.
• Support tender document preparation and contract change processes related to management, cost and schedule.
• Monitor contracts for cost, progress, invoicing and industrial return, interfacing with delegations and industry.
• Establish and maintain annual budgets, manpower planning and cost at completion files.
• Provide programmatic, workforce and financial data and support analysis as required.
• Prepare routine programmatic and financial reporting to ESA management and national delegations.
• Support risk management activities and use ARAMIS/Eclipse tools as applicable.

Skills

Excellent planning

Strong communication

Autonomy & teamwork

Proficient in English

SAP experience

MS Excel

MS Project

Risk management

Education

Master’s degree in Engineering or MBA

Tools

SAP

MS Excel

MS Project

Job description

HE Space is a successful international space company, specialised in providing managed services and human resources to the international space sector for over 40 years.
We hire space experts all over Europe across the whole spectrum of space-related activities, from engineering to science, software development, operations, marketing, finance and administration. Our employees contribute towards a wide range of groundbreaking space programmes including Galileo and Copernicus, ExoMars, Iris2, ESA BASS, ESA GSPT, LISA Pathfinder, Euclid, the Ariane and Vega launchers as well as the International Space Station.
HE Space has joined forces with CS Group and Sopra Steria to lead the engineering and digital space market in Europe and to provide highly skilled consulting.
We are passionate about people and invest in you to support the development of the European space industry.

Job Description

In this role, you will assist with the preparation and maintenance of overall programmatic aspects of the project, i.e. cost, finance, documentation and progress control as well as risk related aspects with the aim to provide full visibility on all aspects related to programme resources.

As part of the team you will have the following responsibilities:

• Implementing and operating planning and control procedures to provide full visibility on all activities related to the progress, while ensuring compliance with established requirements for management reporting on cost, schedule, resources and industrial return;
• Assisting in the preparation of tender documents or contract change with respect to management, cost and schedule/planning requirements and participating in the evaluation of proposals, preparing information required for subsequent contract negotiations and participating in all tasks related to placing of contracts;
• Supporting the management of industrial contracts, monitoring assigned contracts with respect to cost, progress, invoicing, payments, industrial return, geo return, deviations from plans and trends, interface with Delegations and industry (using SAP tool);
• Establishing and maintaining of annual budgets, manpower planning, cost at completion and geo return files;
• Monitoring financial commitments for compliance with budgetary provisions and financial regulations;
• Administering of manpower, missions and industrial procurement from a financial perspective (using WLMS tool);
• Providing required programmatic, workforce and financial data as well as support with analysis of such data as required;
• Preparing the regular programmatic and financial reporting to ESA management and national delegations;
• Supporting the risk management process (using ARAMIS tool);
• Implementing and maintaining the tools and the procedures for Project Documentation System (using Eclipse tool).

Qualifications

You will have the following qualifications and relevant experience:

• A Master’s degree in Engineering or equivalent or MBA or equivalent university degree from a recognized Institution of secondary studies or equivalent qualification in Business Administration, together with a project control background and experience in the disciplines related to the tasks under consideration.
• Experience in controlling and/or management of activities and resources in the aerospace industry.
• Experience in the Satcom industry (space and ground segments).
• Experience in Private-Public partnership contracts.
• Experience in maintaining a Cost at Completion, anticipating and highlighting areas of concerns (technically and programmatically) and initiating mitigation actions.
• Experience in preparation of synthetic reports with deviations from plans and trends. This includes Industrial as well as operational cost.
• Experience with the application of project management and project control principles related to the preparation, negotiation and implementation of industrial procurement.
• Experience in maintenance of a risk register, high level schedule and document configuration control.
• Experience in project review and risk management processes.
• Highly proficient with planning and project control tools (e.g. SAP, MS Excel, MS Project).
• Familiarity with relevant ESA corporate applications (e.g. ESA-P, Eclipse).
• Excellent planning and organization skills and attention to detail, good judgment and a pragmatic approach.
• Ability to work both autonomously and as part of a team within the boundaries of assigned tasks and stringent schedule.
• Good sense of contacts and communications, ability to interface at appropriate level with relevant actors within and outside of the Directorate.
• Proficient in the English language, both written and spoken.
• Experience with industrial return forecasting and reporting.
• Experience in the analysis of business cases/3rd party investments.
• Knowledge of another official ESA language.

Additional Information

This job is located in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
An exciting and dynamic international working environment awaits you!
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