Project Controls Professional – Project Controller – Requirements, Cost & Commercial Integratio[...] in Derby

Job Description

Job Title: Project Controls Professional – Project Controller – Requirements, Cost & Commercial Integration - Submarines

Working Pattern: Full-time – 37 hours – 60:40 Onsite / Remote – Occasional Travel

Working location: Derby

Do you want to have an impact on the future of UK defence?

Do you enjoy working across teams to fix requirements and develop the costs and estimates that underpin future work, from simple projects to highly complex programmes? Do you have an interest driving clear governance constructs that enable robust programme decision making and change control over requirements?

Does your curiosity push you to understand ‘what’ really matters, ‘why’ we do what we do and ‘how’ we do it? To seek out insights that set out the right priorities, and find new ways of assessing the variety of inputs necessitated to achieve targeted outcomes?

If so, now is the time to join Rolls-Royce Submarines. Join us as Project Controller – Requirements, Cost & Commercial Integration (Project Controls Professional), where you will take on responsibility for controlling the assumptions, requirements, and estimates that underpin a portfolio of work spanning diverse projects, engineering specialisms, customers, and competing priorities. In this role you will work across a varied stakeholder landscape to support the delivery teams on all matters of cost, estimating and commercial integration to meet project and programme requirements.

You will work closely with the Contract & Performance Manager, Project Delivery Managers and our Customer, the UK Ministry of Defence to achieve this – as well as wider business cost, commercial and finance teams. In role you will report to the Contract & Performance Manager, working within a team of project controls professionals and alongside project delivery teams to support development of cost and estimating work (including basic scenario modelling) which will underpin future MoD projects and programmes. You will also play a leading role on any partnering arrangements across the programme.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future, and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

Rolls-Royce Submarines is a leader in propulsion system design and development for the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarine fleet and the sole provider and technical authority. This role sits within the Future Programmes department, where we work closely with our customer, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), to advance the UK’s submarine programme and ensure the UK has the capability it requires, to meet the mission demands of today and tomorrow.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing:

As Project Controller – Requirements, Cost & Commercial Integration, you will:

• Contribute to a team of project controls professionals to operate at a high standard and deliver exceptional service – creating an environment that enables people to excel by sharing strengths and working as a collaborative team.
• Lead on project performance management activities that ensure project plans align to the delivery of business case outcomes, customer requirements, deliverables, and benefits in-line with project management functional requirements – with a keen focus on requirements, assumptions, and the management of dependencies.
• Assist delivery teams on all matters of cost, estimating and commercial integration necessary to meet project and programme requirements, including the management of any partnering arrangements; leading on the project’s integration with wider business functions such as cost, commercial and finance to enable delivery.
• Support maintenance and operation of a rigorous project controls system, including risk and opportunity management, scheduling, change control, earned value management, cost control, estimating and commercial integration; ensuring processes are compliant with organisational and contractual requirements and that outputs are robust and coherent.

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

To be successful in this role you will have skills in:

• Stakeholder engagement and management; strong communication skills, ability to lead cross-functional teams to work across boundaries, influencing without authority to improve programme clarity and delivery.
• Cost and estimating: experience developing basis of estimates, and integrating with cost, commercial and finance teams on matters of financial and/or commercial performance and reporting.
• Leadership: leading aspects of work within high performing teams – delivering for internal and external stakeholders. Able to work collaboratively to deliver quality outputs, at pace, with clear logic and evidence.
• Programme management experience: knowledge of project management and controls practices, including schedule, risk, performance and financial management; APM PMQ, APMG PPC or equivalent experience.
• Good working knowledge of Programme Management, Enterprise Resource Planning and business MI systems such as SAP, Primavera P6, FULCRUM and integrating across these tools.
• Resilience: experience working within challenging environments, with significant levels of personal resilience, persistence, and commitment.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines Business an individual has to hold Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if the individual does not currently already have this in place.

Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets associated with this role, candidates must be UK nationals.

This role is at a staff level. The professional level and the salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate. Interest in similar roles can be raised to the recruiter.

End Date 5.9.25

Job Category Project Management Posting Date 18 Aug 2025; 00:08 Posting End Date 05 Sept 2025 #J-18808-Ljbffr