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Senior Project Controller

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Posting date: 09 April 2024
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 09 May 2024
Location: Oakdale Business Park, NP12 4AD
Company: General Dynamics Lands Systems UK
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 372

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General Dynamics Land Systems is on the look-out for a Senior Project Controller to join our established Team. The successful and inclusive candidate will earn a favourable salary of 37,200 to 46,500 based on experience and potential. This is an ideal role for someone who has a proactive and positive mindset and a keen desire to grow professionally.Joining an established team based at our South Wales facility, you will work across a range of stakeholders to support assigned Project Manager(s) to promote good planning practice and ensure scope, schedule & budget adherence. Monitor, report & flag concerns, exceptions and issues through recognized escalation routes, along with proposed solutions.If you were already working in this position, this is what you would have been working on this week:
  • Scope Management
  • Schedule Management
  • Finance Management
  • EVM
  • Resource Management
  • Risk Management
  • Progress reporting
  • Change Management
  • Governance
  • Bid Support
To apply for this role, you will require the following:
  • Can create, maintain and report project schedules using Microsoft Project, and use EVM to effectively manage and report progress on a project.
  • Has a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
  • Can create, maintain and report risks using a risk management tool (such as Active Risk Manager (ARM)), and carry out Schedule Risk Analysis using risk management tool & Microsoft Project.
Our Company Benefits:We pride ourselves in being a great place to work with a shared sense of purpose, offering highly competitive benefits:
  • A compressed nine-day fortnight which means every other Friday off!
  • A flexible benefits scheme - allowing you to adapt your benefits to suit yours and your familys needs
  • A personalised career development plan, alongside regular progress reviews - supporting and valuing your progression within the Company
  • Professional training and development courses, both internal and external - allowing you to reach your full potential
  • A flexible working environment where your contributions are recognised and rewarded, which includes compressed hours, reduced hours and job share
  • A Company sports and social club, offering events at discounted prices giving you the opportunity to meet and socialise with your fellow colleagues outside the workplace
About General Dynamics UKGeneral Dynamics Land Systems is a global leader in providing products and support across the full spectrum of combat vehicles. Our global team has more than 6,000 employees working towards creating a diverse product portfolio delivering best-in-class capability to Armed Forces communities worldwide. In the UK, we employee more than 580 people and are leading the way in Armoured Fighting Vehicles and sustainment services. Our vision is documented and embedded into our culture, so all employees understand the Companys direction and their role in achieving it. We are currently delivering the AJAX programme, providing 589 Armoured Fighting Vehicles in six variants to the British Army and have also developed and delivered 400 Foxhound vehicles - a highly-protected and mobile 4x4 platform with high-deployment availability.We believe in maintaining a diverse workplace inclusive of beliefs, cultural background, job experiences, thoughts and ideas. If who we are and what we do resonates with you, we invite you to join our high performance team

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