Project Controls Engineer – Defence

Overview

As a Project Controls Engineer you support Defence project delivery within a cross-functional team, shaping scope, baselines, and performance insights. You enable robust change control, risk management, and data-informed decisions to drive delivery success. You will collaborate with stakeholders, suppliers, and Finance to align resources and finances with project goals. This role offers scale, technical challenge, and a chance to contribute to critical UK defence programs.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working environment
• supportive inclusion networks (DEI, Wellbeing, Military, Parents and Carers)
• career development opportunities
• healthy work-life balance
• opportunity to work on high-profile defence projects

Responsibilities

• Lead on specific workstreams within a cross-discipline Project Controls team
• Define scope through exclusions, assumptions, interfaces and dependencies and decompose into a Work Breakdown Structure
• Support the establishment and maintenance of a Performance Measurement Baseline and change control
• Collaborate with suppliers to integrate and analyse project performance data per contractual requirements
• Support scope, cost, risk and schedule integration and alignment
• Analyze performance data including Earned Value Management to inform delivery decisions
• Liaise with Finance to generate prospective financial positions (Cash Estimate to Complete, Estimate At Complete)
• Support risk management through identification, quantification, and oversight of project risk
• Assist Project Managers in deploying resources per resource-loaded schedules
• Assure quality and integrity of outputs
• Communicate performance with the Integrated Project Team and influence stakeholders
• Promote learning from experience and drive process improvements

Key requirements

• Experience delivering projects with Project Controls across one or more lifecycle stages
• Experience in Planning and Scheduling, Cost Estimation, Cost Control, Risk Management or Performance Reporting and related software/tools
• Basic understanding of how Integrated Project Controls disciplines operate
• Proactive, curious, can-do attitude in uncertain environments
• Strong communication and influencing abilities
• Desire to build a professional community beyond delivery
• Undergraduate degree in a relevant technical or management field or suitable equivalent
• Membership or working toward membership of a relevant professional body (e.g., APM, PMI)
• Proficiency in the software needed to perform the role
• Willingness to work across various sectors and clients

• strong communicator and influencer
• proactive and curious
• team collaboration
• Planning and Scheduling
• Cost Estimation
• Cost Control

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