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We are looking for a Project Controls Manager to head a multi-functional Project Controls Team here at AWE., 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.
  
  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
  
  9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work.
• 270 hours holiday
• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions)
• A truly meaningful role where your hard work impacts on our mission to keep the nation safe and secure.