Project Controls Manager (SC Cleared)

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Project Controls Manager, Active SC Clearance Essential, 12+6 Months, Corsham

You will lead the team as the Microsoft Project SME within our Defence client based in Corsham, imparting knowledge and introducing processes / best practice into a reshaping team delivering capability into multiple areas.

This is an exciting opportunity for a SC Cleared specialist to be part of an organisation working differently to the rest of wider organisation as our team are a dynamic and forward leaning organisation. They are implementing and showcasing a change of approach with organisational structure and are implementing AGILE into both project management and the technical space.

Duties

The Project Controls Manager will provide:

* Providing evidence to support robust governance/reporting ensuring consistent regular submissions

* Ensuring Risk and Resource adjusted plans are produced and provide evidence for decision making.

* Identifying shortfalls in resources utilising technical and project management staff.

* Production of reporting detail on status and quality of project plans on a monthly basis.

* Effective planning and scheduling. Monitoring and development of delivery schedule.

* Maintaining quality of schedule to meet policy standards.

* Support to timely business/commitment case generation.

* Effective stakeholder management and documentation as required.

Key Skills/Experience

* Proven experience in working within a programme of similar size and complexity

* Expert level user of Microsoft Enterprise Project Management solution with experience of managing programme dependencies, baselining and tracking

* Scrum Master; managing and running Sprint ceremonies including daily stand ups, planning meetings, showcases and retrospectives

* Workshopping; ability to lead small to medium sized groups of stakeholders to extract relevant schedule information to feed into schedules

* The ability to work under pressure and adhere to challenging timescales

* Proven organisational skills

* Strong analytical skills

* Excellent communication skills

* Reporting; ability to gather, analyse and present accurate, consistent messages to senior management boards

* Experience in liaising with industry partners

* Experience of dealing with remote groups of stakeholders and managing expectations and communications between disparate groups

* Experience in working in a large scale change programme

* Ability to understand programme objectives and proactively link these to scheduling and risk management functions

* IT literate, with experience of Microsoft Office 365 including SharePoint

* Working within Defence / Public Sector

* Working with an AGILE environment