Location: Corsham or Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements (2 days on site per week) 37 hours per week
If your skills, experience, and qualifications match those in this job overview, do not delay your application.
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Security Clearance – British or Dual nationals (one being British)
Are you ready to shape the future of high impact defence and technology projects? As a Project Controls Manager, you’ll be at the forefront of delivering complex, cutting edge programmes that make a real difference to national security.
You’ll be part of a mission driven environment where your expertise in cost, time, risk, and quality management will directly influence the success of some of the UK’s most advanced systems from intelligence and surveillance technologies to state of the art communications and weapons handling solutions across land, sea, and air.
* Manage and develop a high-performing project controls team, driving best practice across all functions.
* Build trusted relationships with stakeholders, suppliers, and customers, ensuring seamless delivery in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
* Define and maintain the Performance Measurement Baseline (scope, cost, and schedule), ensuring everything is on track.
* Oversee scheduling teams, integrating timelines across all phases and subcontractors.
* Drive cost management, change control, risk and opportunity management, and documentation to keep projects on course.
* Implement and sustain an Earned Value Management system, turning data into actionable insights for informed decision making.
Essential experience of the Project Controls Manager
* Experience in working with common project controls toolsets, such as MSP / P6, RiskHive, ERP / SAP systems.
* Proven hands-on delivery experience applying project controls and governance measures on complex/major projects or programmes.
* An organised, confident communicator who also is self-motivated and the ability to transform complex problems into simple, elegant solutions.
* Knowledge of project controls approaches and practices, such as planning / scheduling management, cost management, risk management and analysis, performance management, change management and configuration control.