Project Controller

Job description

Location: Belfast, United Kingdom

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

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 five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, 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

Location: Belfast - hybrid role with 3 days in the office weekly

Are you looking to develop a career in Project Controls? If you have a background in PMO, Planning, Estimating/Cost office, or Risk this could be a new career opportunity for you?

What the role has to offer:

• Exposure to an extensive network of key stakeholders and the opportunity for professional development/career progression
• Working with leading edge technology

What can we offer you?

On offer is 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

Our Opportunity

Thales UK has a fantastic opportunity for an individual to join our Project Management Office (PMO) as Project Controller , as part of the centre of excellence for Integrated Airspace Protection Systems.

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This opportunity would suit individuals either already in the development stages of their career in Project Controls or Project Management (or similar), or individuals with transferable skills and aspirations to pursue a career in Project Controls.

You will be responsible for providing project planning, monitoring and control expertise for one of our leading projects. Key to the role is to integrate into the project management team to assist the PM in key decision-making.

On a day to day basis you'll be involved in:

• Liaising with appropriate stakeholders to create and maintain integrated master schedules for projects
• Producing project reports and facilitating reviews in accordance with project timescales
• Ensuring governance, deployment & reporting of Risk & Opportunity Management
• Liaising with the project team to collect and monitor the use of 'lessons learned' as part of a continuous improvement culture
• Ensuring Thales mandated tools are deployed and used appropriately and that a robust change control process is implemented for projects

About You:

If you have a background in PMO, Planning, Estimating/Cost office, or Risk (or similar), or transferable skills and aspirations to pursue a career in Project Controls this could be a new career opportunity for you?

You will ideally have experience of planning, scheduling, data analysis & cost control within a complex engineering/manufacturing/ financial environment covering high level & detailed schedule compilation, programme reporting, budgeting & risk management together with the following:-

• An awareness and desire to work in Project Controls, and have transferable skills to supporting the delivery of successful projects.
• Experience analysing large amounts of data and have strong mathematical skills. This is a very numerical based role.
• Excellent organisational skills to relating to planning and scheduling - ideally previous exposure of Primavera or other planning tools would be desirable but not necessary.
• Experience working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, where you often juggle multiple tasks at any one time.
• Proven experience of building strong relationships with customers and internal stakeholders together with having excellent communication and team working skills.
• Be able to demonstrate strong negotiation, presentation and report writing skills

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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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