Project Control Manager & Cost Lead - Bristol - £450 Per Day - 3 Months
Project Control Manager & Cost Lead - Bristol - £450 Per Day - 3 Months
The work location is based in Bristol
3 Month Contract
Pay rate is between £400 - £450 per day
Candidates must hold active SC or be willing and eligible to undergo the SC process
Role Description:
- To play a key role within a Project Delivery Leadership Team, working alongside the Best Engineering, Quality, Build and Supply Chain professionals.
- 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
Responsibilities:
- managing/leading the day-to-day project control activities relating to the contracted scope
- 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
Experience;
- 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
Skills and attributes:
- 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
Education and qualifications:
- a bachelor's degree or equivalent
- membership of the APM (or wiling to join)
- project management qualification
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