Project Controls Manager (Inside IR35)

Project Controls Manager (Inside IR35)

Contract Term: 12 - 18 Months

Contracting Authority: AWE

Location: Aldermaston, Reading – Hybrid - 2 days on site, could be 3 days one week and one day the next week.

What if you could work on something that you can’t test… but cannot afford to fail? Something that could have spent years on a submarine, is launched into outer space (where the temperature is below -250c), comes hurtling through the atmosphere, being heated up and shaken and then must work? Some challenge.

That’s exactly what the team of over 6,500 people at AWE do every day: delivering important work, in support of the most important mission – keeping the nation safe.

AWE plays a crucial role in national nuclear security. Their role in nuclear deterrence and their specialist technical assistance to nuclear threat reduction is vital in the defence against the most serious threats faced by the UK. Working to support the defence of our country, AWE has a clear mission: to keep everyone, the environment, their products and information, sites, and everything around them, safe and secure.

SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks.

As a Project Controls Manager, your main responsibilities will be: 

• Managing risk, including ownership of qualitative and quantitative assessments to schedule predictability and cost. Influencing and supporting project managers and procurement to ensure schedule momentum and cash flow KPI’s. Role modelling best practice in conceptual estimating, funding stage gates, basic contingency principles and procurement principles. Coordinating and facilitating planning sessions and workshops to compile the master project/programme schedule baseline, ensuring an achievable duration. Utilising your expertise in procurement schedules to create achievable lead times within the schedule. Prioritising materials and equipment orders to meet scheduled install dates. Influencing key stakeholders to facilitate sign off of baseline and encouraging visibility of regular progress updates. Introducing robust change processes, ensuring schedules, interfaces, cost, risk, and changes are managed appropriately. Owning the change management process and workflow Highlighting trends and root causes of deviations against the baseline using lead and lag indicators and reporting effective remedial actions in order to drive best value for the client.

Essential:

• Delivering Controls in a major project/ programme environment, ideally within Defence, Data Centre’s, Life Sciences, Pharma, R&D facilities, Industrial, Manufacturing, Distribution & Logistics sectors Mentoring and developing a multi-functional controls team Meeting project deadlines Adept with controls/ general software applications such as Primavera (P6), Power BI Insight into engineering, procurement, contracts, construction processes Knowledge of engineering and construction management Heading collaborative focus groups

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply.

AWE’s ambition is to create workplaces that recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and where people feel able to be themselves at work. They strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants.

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, AWE guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.