Project Controller

Location: Oxford, United Kingdom

Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services.

Join the Thales Alenia Space UK as a Project Controller, where you’ll be responsible for the management and deployment of project controls across our high profile spacecraft projects.

You’ll manage the schedules and baselines, presenting clear information for our project leadership to inform key decisions. Working closely across functions and directly with numerous partners and customers, you’ll be able to influence the management and delivery of our exciting projects.

Day to day your role will include:

- Deploying project controls for spacecraft and satellite propulsion programmes
- Facilitating planning workshops to support WBS and construction of Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) in Primavera P6, ensuring consistency with individual work packages and reflecting all technical and non-technical requirements
- Implementing robust Performance Management Baseline (PMB)
- Implementing and operating change control across programmatic baselines to ensure clarity over performance management vs forecasts
- Identifying trends, analysis of variances, and recommending corrective actions, and focussing on proactive risk and opportunity management
- Carrying out analysis and reporting including schedule reviews, risk reviews, project reviews. Working closely with project leadership to create metrics
- Providing coaching and guidance on best practice project controls to the project teams
- Managing and deploying subject matter experts for certain toolsets
- Promoting a continuous improvement culture to project control processes to innovate and improve efficiency, capturing and cascading lessons learned

What we’re looking for from you:

- Technical expertise in managing project controls (including scheduling, risk management, resource management, cost control and baseline management)
- Previous experience within an engineering or closely related field
- Experienced in the use of Primavera P6 is preferable

What kind of person will succeed in this role?

You’ll be working cross functionally and with a large number of customers and partners, so you’ll need to be a strong communicator across all levels. We’re also looking for you to delivery coaching and training to less experienced colleagues, and be seen as a go-to resource for help. Similarly, you’ll need to influence project teams to ensure they work in a best-practice and compliant way.

Benefits:

- Performance-related bonus
- Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00
- 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) with opportunity to buy up to 40 hours/year (pro rata)
- 24 hours volunteering paid for
- Private healthcare
- Pension scheme
- 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

Security Clearance Requirement:

Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions. This role requires you to be a UK National and achieve Security Clearance (SC) without any caveats. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance prior to commencing employment. If approved by the MOD, a dual national from a non-ITAR country may be considered.

To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years.  In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.

Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels .

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At Thales, we ensure equal opportunities, pay and working conditions for all. The benefits we offer include private medical insurance, buying or selling annual leave, cycle to work schemes, employee discounts, paid volunteering day, stocks and shares, annual bonus and much more depending on the role. Read more about our benefits here.

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