Senior Project Controller

Senior Project Controller – Reading (Hybrid)

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 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.

• The opportunity to put your skills to use on complex engineering projects that make a real impact to our customers and their users across the globe
• Opportunity to join a vibrant industry with strong growth potential in the UK and overseas export contracts

Project Planners / Controllers in Thales are a critical part of the Project Management team. Day to day you will work closely with one or more Project Managers and Project Technical Leaders, but you will also be part of a much larger Project community which will support your professional development with coaching/mentoring, targeted training and professional certification as appropriate.

We are looking for talented individuals who can bring Project Planning / Controls strength and capability to join Thales Optronics and Missile Electronic (OME) who provide visual systems to customers in the UK and overseas. Your primary focus will be on developing and maintaining robust project baselines, deploying best practice controls, using data from the project to proactively identify trends/variances/risks and preparing accurate and succinct reports for management attention.

Our projects are often highly complex, typically including large components of engineering design, in‑house manufacture and the management of complex supply chains. Our Project Planners / Controllers ensure that this complexity is managed through structure and a regular drumbeat that keeps all of the different parts of the team in alignment.

• Responsible for the generation, baseline and monitoring/control of the WBS, schedule, work package management, EAC, Earned Value Management and associated metrics for their area of responsibility in line with the Business Rhythm.
• Ensure update of project schedules to reflect progressed/completed work, with estimates to complete (ETC) established via allocation of required budget and resources to outstanding scheduled activities.
• Support the communication of all key milestones, objectives and programme position.
• Support the effective and efficient process for managing Cost and Schedule Change Control.
• Support Risk Management process, risk reviews and modelling.

• Proven experience working as a Project Planner / Project Controller, ideally within the defence/aerospace/engineering (or similar industries)
• Experience using Primavera P6 to create and maintain Integrated Master Schedules (IMS), conduct Change Control, Forecasting, Deploying KPIs, Variance Analysis, Risk & Opportunity Management, Project Governance and Project Reporting.
• You will bring structure to complex situations, have a keen eye for detail and the ability evaluate, interpret distil and communicate complex information.

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