Junior Project Controller

Framatome is a major international player in the nuclear energy market recognised for its innovative solutions and value-added technologies for designing, building, maintaining, and advancing the global nuclear fleet. The company designs, manufactures, and installs components, fuel and instrumentation and control systems for nuclear power plants and offers a full range of reactor services.

With 14,000 employees worldwide, every day Framatomes expertise helps its customers improve the safety and performance of their nuclear plants and achieve their economic and societal goals.

Framatome is owned by the EDF Group (80.5%) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI 19.5%)

In the UK we are currently over 300 strong and our plans are to grow to 400-500 by 2025 through the development our UK nuclear service offerings.

For our Sizewell B project, we are looking to recruit a Junior Project Controller

Reporting to the Project Controls Manager, the Junior Project Controller is responsible for generating project controls outputs as directed by their Project Controls Manager. These outputs will be used as components to build the larger picture of project performance in support of project management and customer/ business reporting requirements.

The role is expected to produce outputs across all project controls sub-functions under supervision and guidance from more senior Project Controls staff. This is a training role and as such there is an expectation the role will not be able to work autonomously and will require daily supervision and direction by more senior project controls staff.

In accordance with the project drumbeat and functional quality standards, undertake simple and routine Project Controls activities across all sub-disciplines, such as:

Cost Control

• Utilise SAP to generate cost collection codes, extract data, and produce cost reports;
• Work with project and work package managers to generate estimates of cost for new work packages and the remaining cost (Estimate to Complete, ETC);
• Gather and validate actual costs for work packages.

Planning & Scheduling

• Become familiar with a project schedule, being able to identify and communicate the critical path, describe upcoming activities and progress made, and compare this to the baseline;
• Extract reports, data, and periodic lookaheads for projects and work packages from the schedule;
• Conduct periodic schedule updates for progress made and future reforecasting;
• Know the quality standards for a schedule and be able to assure schedules against these.

RAID Management

• Understand the project RAID log and be able to describe the risks and their impacts to the relevant work packages;
• Be able to produce standard RAID reports such as TopN, Due Mitigation Actions, and Contingency Drawdown Curves;
• Update individual risks with risk owners including revising impacts and updating mitigation actions.

Document Control

• Interface with document control systems, uploading/ downloading documentation and extracting data for status reporting;
• Issue, track and log transmittals;
• Conduct non-technical documentation reviews.

The above will be undertaken as directed by the Project Controls Manager on small area of responsibility such as a small project, a Control Account, or a collection of Work Packages.

To be considered, we are looking for the following skills and experience:

As an entrant into the Junior Project Controller role, we are looking for someone who has typically spent some time in a project environment in a non-project control role, or spent time in a more complex administrative role outside of the project environment.

• An aptitude for data and numbers, personable with the ability to communicate well with project staff, and have a drive for their own personal development, being keen to develop new skills and progress within the project controls function.
• Ability to be taught and heavily guided on the referenced activities expected of the role.

As an established Junior Project Controller you will be able to conduct the referenced activities and produce the referenced outputs with a moderate level of supervision and support, maintaining a good attention to detail and promptly actioning the feedback received from more senior project controls staff. You will have the ability to start to probe and question the information they are receiving from project managers and functions, and be able to develop solutions to simple but novel scenarios.

Our Junior Project Controllers would be expected to gain the following within:

1 Year

• APM Associate Membership
• APM Project Fundamentals Qualification (PFQ)
• Microsoft Office Specialist: Excel Associate

2 Years

• APMG Project Planning & Controls (PPC) Foundation
• Primavera P6 Fundamentals

In return, we are offering a competitive salary and great progression opportunities.

Our benefits include:

• 25 days annual leave per year raising to 30 (x1 day for 2 years service)
• 8% Employer pension contribution (salary sacrifice) 1% min Employee
• Individual and family private health care
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• Employee assistance programme (EAP)
• Income Protection
• Professional Body Membership (1 per year)
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Access to language courses
• Plus more including access to training and development opportunities.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We value and plan to continue to build on the benefits of our diverse working environment and recognise a priority to improve gender mix.