Project Controls Manager

Reading, Berkshire
AWE PLC

We need an AWEsome Project Controls Manager to join our Project Controls team at AWE.

This is an exciting time to join us as a Project Controls Manager as we begin a once in a generation programme of work in support of the United Kingdom’s Continuous at Sea Deterrent.

We are in the countryside between Reading and Basingstoke with onsite parking. There are good bus links between Reading, Basingstoke and Newbury.

Salary: Competitive – Negotiable (depending on your suitability and level of experience).

As a Project Controls Manager (within – Governance, Planning, Risk, Reporting, and Controls) you will head multi-functional Project Controls teams. It’s vital that we ensure delivery of our project programmes, to do this, you’ll collaborate with Project Managers and Supply Chain to produce a pragmatic baseline.

You will need to engage, negotiate, and influence people across the business to ensure effective controls are in place to monitor progress, manage issues and mitigate slippage.

You could be working on maintaining existing infrastructure or ensuring the successful introduction of our new capability.

A typical day for you could look like this:

• Managing risk, including ownership of qualitative and quantitative assessments to schedule predictability and cost.
• Influencing and supporting project managers and procurement to ensure schedule momentum and cash flow KPI’s.
• Role modelling best practice in conceptual estimating, funding stage gates, basic contingency principals and procurement principals.
• Coordinating and facilitating planning sessions and workshops to compile the master project/programme schedule baseline, ensuring an achievable duration.
• Utilising your expertise in procurement schedules to create achievable lead times within the schedule.
• Prioritising materials and equipment orders to meet scheduled install dates.
• Influencing key stakeholders to facilitate sign off of baseline and encouraging visibility of regular progress updates.
• Introducing robust change processes, ensuring schedules, interfaces, cost, risk, and changes are managed appropriately.
• Owning the change management process and workflow
• Highlighting trends and root causes of deviations against the baseline using lead and lag indicators and reporting effective remedial actions in order to drive best value for the client.

We would like you to have experience of:

• Delivering Controls in a major project/ programme environment, ideally within Defence, Data Centre’s, Life Sciences, Pharma, R&D facilities, Industrial, Manufacturing, Distribution & Logistics sectors
• Mentoring and developing a multi-functional controls team
• Meeting project deadlines
• Adept with controls/ general software applications such as Primavera (P6), Power BI
• Insight into engineering, procurement, contracts, construction processes
• Knowledge of engineering and construction management
• Heading collaborative focus groups

As part of our People Promise, AWE (one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK) has a range of benefits to suit you:

You can find out more about our benefits HERE

To apply: Please apply via AWE Careers where you will be asked to submit your CV and a covering letter. Make sure that you highlight all relevant skills and experience for this job. Give us a clear view of what you can bring to the role and why you want to work with the team here at AWE.

You must be willing and able to obtain and maintain Security/ Developed Vetting Clearance (funded by the AWE) in order to start with us in this role. It can take several months for clearance to come through.

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This job role is suitable for some hybrid working, which is an informal, non-contractual and voluntary arrangement, blending a balance of attendance in the workplace (your permanent duty station) and working from home as a personal choice. There is a need to be on site regularly.

If successful, you will be required to carry out all of your duties from the UK and cannot do so from an overseas location at any time.

Important things you need to know:

• Interviews will be scheduled during working hours.
• Interviews will be 90 minutes on TEAMS and will include a 5-to-10-minute presentation.

If we receive an exceptionally high level of applications, this vacancy may close early. So don’t procrastinate, refresh your CV and covering letter and apply now!

For more information about the role or the recruitment journey, get in touch with me (Sunflower) at:

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