Role Title: Senior Principal Project Controller
Location: Bristol or Farnborough- 2 to 3 days per week onsite
Duration: 12 months
Clearance required: SC Cleared
Day rate: £500 per day via umbrella company
Overall Purpose of the Job:
The role is responsible for the delivery of Project Control, scheduling and EVM administration & support
across all projects and programmes
Key Accountabilities:
- Leading by example, communicating purpose and expectations, developing and motivating the team,
- creating inclusivity, participation and involvement and encouraging innovation and creativity
- Undertaking tasks and activities, as required, in the delivery of planning & scheduling
- Championing Best Practice and applying lessons learned within the team, with programme and project
- teams and other key delivery partners
- Developing and maintaining regular, open and positive lines of communication within the team, with the
- leadership, programme and project teams and other key delivery partners
- Managing, motivating and coordinating the team to achieve specified objectives
- Engaging, mentoring and supporting the team in their career development and providing guidance that
- enables the transfer of learning into effective practice for the team
- Working knowledge of programme management principles and how project planning, scheduling and
- control activities underpin them
- Maintain project schedules and keep project resources on track, provide regular project updates to
- stakeholders, and maintain contact with the team to monitor job progress.
- Integrate multiple schedules into a master project schedule, including baselining, status and
- performance measurement baselines
- Execute EVM using the company tool (Cobra)
- Produce EVM reports and execute project controls in alignment with ANSI 748 32 guidelines
- Analyse EVM and provide EVM analysis support and guidance to the Project Team
- Using EVM techniques such as Cost Performance Index (CPI), Schedule Performance Index (SPI),
- Estimate at Completion (EAC) and Estimate to Complete (ETC)
- Support customer/internal IBR's
- Detailed knowledge of a number of technical areas, such as: project controls, EVM, governance and
- assurance, risk analysis and management, cost management/control/reporting, benchmarking, data
- analysis and reporting.
- Significant knowledge of the development and delivery of complex project schedules using proprietary
- planning tools, specifically PPM2016 or Primavera P6 - to enable the definition and implementation of
- software management processes and procedures
- Development and reporting of project schedule data to senior stakeholders (operating at IDT lead,
- Director level and above) in a complex projects environment
Successful outcomes of this role:
- Up-to-date, accurate, reliable and timely outputs that are trusted and accepted by the leadership,
- programme and project teams in support of projects up to LCM Level 4
- Planning & Scheduling outputs that contribute to meeting or exceeding business plan revenue and
- margin targets for projects up to LCM Level 4
- Troubleshoot and monitor potential scheduling problems
- Execute EVM and produce timely reports
- Provide detailed explanations of project variances and propose corrective actions to keep the project on
- track.
- Development, introduction and implementation of project schedule analytics and reporting
- methodologies and techniques (such as Critical Path analysis)
- Established and regular engagement with the leadership, programme and project teams for projects up
- to LCM Level 4
Person Specification
- Essential Education and Qualifications:
- Bachelor degree or equivalent or 10 years' relevant experience
- Programme or Project Controls Qualification - Practitioner or equivalent
- Project management qualification; APM membership desirable.
- Experience of operating as a project or programme scheduler in a complex environment
- Experience of managing a complex project or programme is desirable
- Strong understanding of EVM principles and metrics
Competencies:
- Has an in-depth knowledge of the following competence in complex situations:
- Schedule Management
- Resource Management
- Consolidated Planning
- Reviews
- Change Control
- EVM
Has a detailed knowledge of the following competence in complex situations:
- Ethics, Compliance & Professionalism
- Team Management
- Conflict Management
- Leadership
- Budget & Cost Control
- Contract Management
- Financial & Cost Management
- Resource Capacity Planning
- Stakeholder & Communication Management
- Operating within PMO
- Line Management
- MS Office Software
- Performance Management & EVM
Has a comprehensive knowledge of the following competence in situations of limited complexity:
Frameworks & Methodologies
Capability Development
Operating within P3M
Project Management
Matrix Management
