At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead project controls, manage schedules, and ensure project performance throughout the lifecycle.
- Company: Join QinetiQ, a leader in defence technology and innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, hybrid working, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Work in a dynamic environment with cutting-edge technology and creative teams.
- Why this job: Be part of groundbreaking projects that empower and protect lives.
- Qualifications: Experience with Oracle Primavera and knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid methodologies.
The predicted salary is between 50400 - 56000 £ per year.
Package: £50,400 - £56,000 (salary dependent on experience) + Benefits
Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Principal Project Controller on a 12-Month FTC at our Farnborough facility, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.
The Role: You will be fully responsible and accountable for project controls throughout the project lifecycle. Planning, monitoring, and controlling project performance.
The Principal Project Controller leads the development and maintenance of integrated project controls processes across major programmes or portfolios. You will partner with Project Managers, Programme Managers, Commercial teams, Finance, and senior stakeholders to monitor project performance, identify risks and opportunities, and provide accurate forecasting to support strategic decision-making.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Scheduling: Maintaining project schedules including resource management. Proactively working closely with Resource Managers and Project Managers to seek the best outcome. Ensuring baselines are set and managed. Interrogating schedules to identify potential risks and issues and emerging trends that may need addressing.
- Cost planning and control: Management of actual and forecast costs against budget including updating plans in line with change control. Evaluating cost variance, highlighting areas of underperformance, and making informed decisions to suggest recovery actions to ensure project performance stays on track. Applying cost control techniques to support the monitoring, management and controlling of costs such as critical path analysis and schedule risk analysis.
- Analysis and reporting: Analysing and reporting data to develop a complete and accurate picture that will inform decisions regarding the management, quality, and control of projects. Providing clear information and certainty regarding schedule, cost, and risk position, including using Earned Value Management (EVM) analysis (if required).
- Performance management: Governance requirements and processes are followed as documented in the Business Management System BMS and the Project Management Knowledge Network. Ensuring data structures, review cycles, review packs are in place to enable effective decision making.
Essential experience of the Principal Project Controller:
- Working knowledge of Oracle Primavera is essential
- Has comprehensive/detailed knowledge of lifecycles and experience of applying one or more independently – Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid
Desirable qualifications for the Principal Project Controller:
- APMG Project Planning & Control (PPC) Practitioner
We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
This role is 37 hours per week and is based out of our Farnborough facility on a hybrid working pattern of 3 days per week on average, onsite.
Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.
Principal Project Controller - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract in Farnborough employer: QinetiQ
At QinetiQ, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment at our Boscombe Down facility, where innovation meets defence technology. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through our inclusive culture, competitive benefits, and opportunities for professional development, ensuring that every team member feels valued and empowered to contribute to meaningful projects that protect lives. Join us and be part of a diverse team that thrives on collaboration and creativity, all while enjoying the unique advantages of working at a site renowned for its aviation and aerospace capabilities.
