Project Controls Manager

We are looking for someone with a high level of experience of Project Controls including cost, budget, planning and estimating to join our Project Controls team at AWE Nuclear Security Technologies.

We are open to applicants looking for job share, part time and term time working and we do need you to come from a Project Controls background.

Location: We are in the countryside between Reading and Basingstoke at RG7 4PR. You will be required to attend site up to 3 days per week.

Salary Range starts at: £48,030 up to £61,000 - this is very much open to upwards negotiation if you have the skills and experience that we need.

What's exciting is:

You will be joining the business as it embarks on one of the most complex infrastructure programmes in the country at a pivotal moment in its evolution. The UK government has committed substantial investment into improving our infrastructure, so we are building a talented team to make the most of this opportunity.

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.

A typical day for a Project Controls Manager 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 principles and procurement principles.
• 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.

We would like you to demonstrate or have experience of:

• Delivering Controls in a major project/ programme environment, ideally within Defence, 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

We do need you to come from a Project Controls environment, this role is not suitable for Project Managers.

Everyone who works at AWE brings unique skills and perspectives to the table. We recognise that great people don't always 'tick every box'. That's why we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience. Even if you don't meet every point below, but you feel that this role and AWE are a great fit for you, please go ahead and apply, we'd love to receive your application.

Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we'd like you to have experience in some of the following:

Some reasons we think you'll love it here:

AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include:

· 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).

The 'Working at AWE' page on our website is where you can find full details in the 'AWE Benefits Guide'.

Important things you need to know:

• You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.
• We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.
• Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.

For more information about the role or the recruitment process, get in touch with me (Sunflower) at:

(Sorry agencies - all recruitment for this role is being managed by our team)

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