Location: Cheadle, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

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 five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, 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.

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Lead Project Controller

Based Cheadle, Bristol or Templecombe– hybrid 3 days in the office

Are you an inquisitive individual that likes to identify risks and opportunities and solve problems? Are you looking to apply your project controls skills to a new challenge, working on a number of exciting programmes?

What the role has to offer:

• Excellent career development opportunities where you can develop into Senior project roles
• Opportunity to work on a collection of projects across a diverse portfolio
• Working on high visibility “state of the art” projects for UK Submarines
• Opportunity to get involved with new and exciting new tools within the PMO

What can we offer you?

On offer is a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes;

• Performance Related Bonus
• Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00pm
• Pension Scheme
• 28 days annual leave (Plus Bank Holidays)
• Life Cover
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
• Gym membership discounts

Our Opportunity

Thales Under Water Systems (UWS) are looking to recruit a passionate and driven Lead Project Controller to join an exciting Submarine Project Management team based in Cheadle, Bristol or Templecombe where you will provide support in the delivery of our customer commitments.

You will be responsible for ensuring that the Programme operates as ‘one team’ and has a consistency of approach across the various programme management activities, including schedule, cost, change control, document management and risk/opportunity management. On behalf of the Programme Manager and the Sector PMO Manager, the jobholder will be responsible for the Programmatic Drumbeat and all associated project controls governance in order to ensure successful delivery.

This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held; if not currently held it is expected that the post holder will undergo SC Clearance, please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.

About you

• ·You will have strong experience in project scheduling and project control skills

• Experience with using scheduling applications such as Primavera application, MS Project for robust scheduling, project control reporting and impact analysis
• A track record of building strong relationships with key stakeholders and leading in complex environments;
• Comprehensive understanding of generic processes and techniques used to schedule Programme activities (WBS, OBS, milestones, dependencies , EVM);

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