About this job

General Dynamics Mission Systems engineers a diverse portfolio of high technology solutions, products and services that enable customers to successfully execute missions across all domains of operation. With a global team of more than 13,000 top professionals, we partner with the best in industry to expand the bounds of innovation in the defence and scientific arenas. In the UK, we employ more than 1,400 people and are leading the way in Armoured Fighting Vehicles, avionics and communication systems. Given the nature of our work and who we are, we value trust, honesty, alignment and transparency.

Responsibilities

Purpose of Position

A Senior Project Controller is a wide ranging role that interfaces with a number of key project stakeholders across the business, but primarily with Senior Project Managers, Control Account Managers and Programme Managers. This is a specific role for a fixed time period to meet two specific goals:

• Lead a re-plan and re-baseline of one of the major programmes, introducing additional governance measures
• Act as lead trainer for the planning and project controls area supporting the other staff in this discipline (5) to grow and align skills across the team.

Responsibilities

• Work with assigned Project Manager(s) to scope project requirements into a coherent WBS, OBS and RAM.
• Produce resourced & time phased schedules with critical paths to help ensure that all tasks are complete and milestones are achieved on target and within budget.
• Maintain a project baseline schedule and track changes to the baseline as the project progresses.
• Regularly collect task status and update the schedule, analyse any variation or forecasted variation to plan.
• Carry out Schedule Quality Analysis, Schedule Uncertainty Analysis, Schedule Risk Analysis and Critical Path Analysis on schedules as required within assigned projects.
• Identify vertical and horizontal dependencies and deliverables so that cross-schedule links can be made and maintained
• Review ETCs, EACs and other inputs with budget holders and submit updated forecasts to financial system.
• Track all expenditure on assigned projects, analyse spending trends and estimate final costs, reporting any deviation from baseline.
• Carry out Cost Risk Analysis on schedules as required within assigned projects.
• Update each work package within a project schedule at the required frequency to log project performance as reported by assigned Project Manager(s).
• Generate Earned Value reports at the required frequency and review & address identified variances with assigned Project Manager(s) and Project Accountant.
• Ensure resource demand and supply (headcount) data in plans accurately reflects requirements.
• Challenge demands with assigned Project Manager(s) and other key stakeholders where necessary.
• Provide resource profile output from schedules into the resource management system used by the business.
• Provide risk and related data in agreed formats for reporting purposes.
• Maintain high level Risk Network schedules for use in Schedule Risk Analysis.
• Organise and facilitate regular project progress reviews with team, track progress and ensure all are aware of forthcoming activities.

Profile

• Has a solid understanding of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to provide high quality support to assigned projects.
• Is flexible with a service delivery mind-set, providing ad-hoc support and undertaking additional activities as required.
• Is required to produce high quality work on time and is recognised as contributing to the success of assigned projects, demonstrating their expertise to project team members.
• Supports and contributes to improvement initiatives.
• Experience in the principles behind Project Planning and Control, and can apply them in situations without needing supervision or guidance.
• Create, maintain and report detailed, complex project schedules using Microsoft Project, and use EVM to effectively manage and report progress on a project.
• Has a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
• Create, maintain and report risks using a risk management tool (such as Active Risk Manager (ARM)), and carry out Schedule Risk Analysis using risk management tool & Microsoft Project.