Project Controller – KSA

Job title: Project Controller – KSA

Location: Warton or Samlesbury - We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £35,047+ depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Provide project control support to the PMs on for the KSA / Tornado contracts on a day-to-day basis, with a consolidated view of the contract monthly and quarterly.
• Be a point of contact for the contract teams for any inputs/outputs and ad-hoc queries on a day-to-day basis, with a consolidated view of the contract on a monthly and quarterly basis.
• Report into the KSA / Tornado Project control Lead to give an integrated view of contracts.
• Financial Control: Management of Financial Baseline Change control through Project Control System with quarterly restatements through Contract Status Report process.
• Performance Management: completion of packs for cost and ops meetings monthly and quarterly with the KPI/PI measures defined across all Customer Contracts.
• Risk and Opportunity Management: monthly meetings and updates to the relevant databases, support to contract meetings and updates provided to PM.
• Scheduling: Update to the monthly schedules as required, or monthly Estimate to Complete update.
• General updates: Ensuring Basis of Estimates, dictionary statements, and other supporting information.

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• A good understanding of project control capabilities.
• Proficient in Microsoft Packages, specifically Excel.
• Experience with budget management.

Desirable:

• Resource coordination experience.
• Experience using COBRA, COMPASS and JIRA.

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Fast Jet Support – Project Control team:

The KSA / Tornado Project Controller is responsible for producing a consolidated Fast Jet Support view to the contract team in support of the delivery PM, Project Control Manager and Control Account Manager. This includes ensuring that a full labour and non-labour view is available on risks, CSRs, Baseline Change Request, and providing a full cost and ops view, synthesising messages to exec level to support the PM in any contract meetings & CSRs. Being the point of contact for the PMs and Contract teams.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 30^th April 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.