Project Control Lead & Cost Controller

Venn Group

Project Control Lead & Cost Controller

Recruitment Agency Reference: 7014050

Bristol (Remote Working Available)

Contract – 3 Months initially

Daily Rate (DOE)

Successful candidates must satisfy security criteria

A position has arisen for a Project Control Lead & Cost Controller to play a key role within a Project Delivery Leadership Team, working alongside the Best Engineering, Quality, Build and Supply Chain professionals. This is a high profile role, with deliveries of highly complex bespoke equipment that must be made on time; this role is pivotal to this success.

Within this contract, you’ll be responsible for:

• Managing/leading the day-to-day project control activities relating to the contracted scope

• Ensuring the application of project controls aligns to agreed contract requirements, management plans and the Business Management System

• Establishing and owning both schedule and cost baselines and ongoing governance control

• Ensuring that schedule forecasts and cost EACs within P6/IFS are kept up-to-date using team inputs, PO and/or Shop order confirmation

• Challenging and protecting any cost or schedule forecast changes that reduce float/contingency or exceed the baseline

• Ensuring that agreed KPI's and earned value methods are utilised and reported against so as to present a view of true delivery performance

• Ensuring that the resourcing requirements of the Project Control delivery Team is met and contains SQEP individuals

• Arranging for Customer reporting outputs as required by the contract which relate to the delivery team scope of work

• Ensuring that IFS best practice is understood and implemented by the project controls team

• Take ownership of the quantitative risk analysis process (cost and/or schedule related)

• Assume ownership of the change management process for any proposed changes in the cost/schedule baselines

• Supporting the development and maintenance of related management plans

• Ensuring that Risk & Opportunity Management is undertaken in-line with the Risk & Opportunity Management Plan

• Ensuring that the status and configuration of deliverable scope is aligned to the agreed contract Product Breakdown Structure and maintained throughout delivery

• Supporting the delivery team lead with necessary customer engagement

Required qualifications & experience:

• A proven Project Manager having successfully delivered significant engineering projects to challenging schedules

• Successfully operated in highly legislated markets, ideally defence

• Previously operated successfully in matrix organisations, negotiating resource and prioritising tasks

• Developed and improved processes and systems that support continuously improvement of delivery performance and budget adherence

• Managing complex schedules extending over multiple years

• Managing risks and opportunities utilising SRA and systems such as P6

• Member of APM (or seeking to join)

Venn Group is an equal opportunities employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.