Programme​/Project Controller

Position: Programme/Project Controller [26113]
HE Space is a successful international space company, specialised in providing managed services and human resources to the international space sector for over 40 years. We hire space experts all over Europe across the whole spectrum of space-related activities, from engineering to science, software development, operations, marketing, finance and administration. Our employees contribute towards a wide range of groundbreaking space programmes including Galileo and Copernicus, Exo Mars, Iris2, ESA BASS, ESA GSPT, LISA Pathfinder, Euclid, the Ariane and Vega launchers as well as the International Space Station.

HE Space has joined forces with CS Group and Sopra Steria to lead the engineering and digital space market in Europe and to provide highly skilled consulting. We are passionate about people and invest in you to support the development of the European space industry.

Job Description
The post holder will be assigned to the Programme and Project Control Service under the direct responsibility of a Business Control and Administration Manager (BCAM).

Specific responsibility for controlling and reporting all aspects, resolving issues, implementing corrective actions of a busy Division covering:

Travel budget planning.

To take responsibility on reporting progress and end of year budget landing point predictions on a selected Program at Department Level. Will also contribute to a continuous process improvement, regular interfacing with line management, stakeholders, dedicated Service Providers, following up specific actions and performing analysis as detailed in Task 1.

Support to the planning, preparation, execution and follow‑up of projects / programmes activities in terms of schedule, related procurement actions, costs including preparation of CaC as relevant, manpower including support, etc. including:

Assisting in preparing, developing and maintaining programme level plans;

Assisting in the definition and in maintaining related work/procurement plans and related execution and contract actions plans using local tools as applicable;

Monitoring of the implementation of the programmes and of activities, as appropriate, and preparation of related reports and provision of management information as required;

Evaluating the results and main achievements of the programme, elaborating related KPIs, and preparing periodic overview publications;

In the field of resources (i.e. financial and manpower) for programme/project(s);

Assisting in the preparation of long‑term, medium term and in‑year resource plans;

Monitoring and controlling the implementation of the plans in line with resource targets, performing forecasting, identifying deviations and related recovery actions, producing related reports;

Reviewing / checking of ESA internal expenditures such as re‑charges, support services and purchases for consistency with Cost‑at‑Completion (CAC) of industrial contracts;

Checking commitments for consistency with budgets and ESA’s procedures and consumption of commitment ceiling and initiating related budgetary transfers as required;

In the field of procurements and execution of contracts:

Support to the preparation and follow‑up of the Agency’s tender actions;

Support to the proposal evaluations as expert for the price and schedule verification and analysis;

Support to the preparation of the financial contract commitment and the data entry of the milestone payment plans in the Agency’s system(s);

Contributing to the elaboration, consolidation of related procurement workplans and detailed implementation plans (e.g. Contract Action Plan baseline) and related commitment consumption, cost and disbursement profiles;

Ensuring that above plans are properly inserted in the appropriate management tools;

Following‑up of the progress of the procurement actions and contracts, and keeping track of status and maintaining the current actual and forecasting in the appropriate ESA tools;

Creating related objects in ESA‑p, maintaining corresponding information in local applications as required and ensuring the correctness and coherence of related information;

Monitoring and controlling of timely implementation of actions related to procurement…