Project Controller

Location: Crawley, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems. 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 the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, 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 (LR8)

Based: Crawley – hybrid working 3 days in the office per week

Are you an experienced Project Controller with an interest in working with cutting-edge bids and projects and next generation solutions? Do you want to join a team that will help support your career progression and a role where you can help support and shape our bids and projects processes and the future business winning for Thales?

What the role has to offer:

• Opportunity to work on a variety of different portfolios and projects
• Opportunity to get involved in both a bid and project environment
• Exposure to an extensive network of key stakeholders and the opportunity for professional development/career progression
• Opportunity to help to get involved in continuous improvement and looking at new ways of working

What can we offer you?

On offer is a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes;

• Performance Related Bonus
• 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

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Project Controller to join our Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) team in Crawley, who provide world leading capabilities for Un-Crewed Air Systems (UAS), Radar Product Support (RPS) and Electronic Warfare (EW) for UK, France and Export markets.

You will be responsible for providing project planning and monitoring and control expertise for one of our leading projects. Key to the role is to integrate into the project management team, in order to assist the Project Manager in key decision making and provide guidance and coaching to the project team. The Project Controller should understand the project status to a level where they can make informed analysis of any changes to schedule, cost, scope and strategic and operational planning (S&OP).

You will be working directly with the Project Manager (PM) and Project Management Office (PMO) Manager where this role supports the definition of the project goals and objectives, creates and maintains cost and schedule baselines, monitors and analyses progress against the baselines, and advises and challenges the Project and Work Package Managers on their decision-making through reporting and the presentation and interpretation of relevant project data.

This role is based from our Crawley office with an expectation to work from the office 3 days per week.

Security Clearance

This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held; if not currently held it is expected that the post holder will undergo SC Clearance, please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.

About You:

• You will have proven successful “hands-on” experience working in both a complex bid and project environment and are adept at planning high level & detailed schedules, monitoring and progressing schedules, data analysis & cost control, programme/project reporting, budgeting & risk management. You will also require excellent stakeholder management and have working knowledge / application of scheduling tools such as Oracle Primavera and Microsoft Project.

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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