About The Role:
To be accountable for providing:
- Visibility of a clear time, cost and quality baseline to the delivery leads and wider business (where needed)
- Visibility of progress, performance, risk & opportunity impact against agreed time, cost and quality baseline for use by the delivery leads and wider business (where needed)
- Adherence to all agreed Project Controls related management plans and processes
- 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 Babcock 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
- Ownership of the quantitative risk analysis process (cost and/or schedule related)
- 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 Experience/Qualification/Attributes:
The successful candidate will be:
- Someone for whom collaboration and working partnership comes naturally - brave, adaptable and respectful
- A driven individual who wants to make a positive impact on a daily basis either leading or being part of a high-performance team
- A proven Project Manager having successfully delivered significant engineering projects to challenging schedules
- Have successfully operated in highly legislated markets, ideally defence
- Have 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
- Managed of complex schedules extending over multiple years
- Managed risks and opportunities utilising SRA and systems such a P6
- A clear and effective communicator
- A manager and developer of direct and virtual teams achieving high-performance
- An effective leader through incremental and transformational change
- A skilled and effective negotiator, holding other accountable for on-time delivery
- Able to work independently and as an active team member
- Willing to be measured on results, going the extra-mile where required to deliver
- A bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Membership of the APM (or wiling to join)
- Project management qualification