Project Controls Professional – Project Controller – Requirements & Risk Management – Submarines

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Job Title: Project Controls Professional – Project Controller – Requirements & Risk Management - Submarines

Working Pattern: Full-time – 37 hours – 60:40 Onsite / Remote – Occasional Travel

Working location: Derby

Do you want to have an impact on the future of UK defence?

Do you enjoy working with teams to define and control requirements sets for complex programmes – maintaining a relentless focus on the outcomes to be achieved? Do you have an interest in exploring, mapping and quantifying risks to the delivery of these outcomes? And from this, working across boundaries to mobilise actions that mitigate risks or realise opportunities?

Does your curiosity push you to understand ‘what’ really matters and ‘how’ we do what we do? Seeking out insights to drive improvements, from the incremental to the more radical?

If so, now is the time to join Rolls-Royce Submarines. Join us as Project Controller – Requirements & Risk Management (Project Controls Professional), where you will play a leading role in controlling the requirements, dependencies, assumptions, risks, exclusions and opportunities within a complex and multifaceted programme of work.

In role, you will work closely with the project delivery teams to define, catalogue and control this information – in accordance with business standards. You will also be the local lead on driving these standards through all levels of the programme to build a culture that ensures robust, high quality, actionable data underpins our programme and portfolio reporting.

You will work closely with the Contract & Performance Manager, Project Delivery Managers, Project Leads, Control Account teams and Engineering teams to achieve this – as well as the wider business and supporting functions. In role you will report to the Contract & Performance Manager, working in a team of project controls professionals and alongside our project delivery teams to diagnose challenges and define management actions to enable programme success.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future, and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

Rolls-Royce Submarines is a leader in propulsion system design and development for the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarine fleet and the sole provider and technical authority. This role sits within the Future Programmes department, where we work closely with our customer, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), to advance the UK’s submarine programme and ensure the UK has the capability it requires, to meet the mission demands of today and tomorrow.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing:

As Project Controller – Requirements & Risk Management, you will:

• Contribute to a team of project controls professionals to operate at a high standard and deliver exceptional service – creating an environment that enables people to excel by sharing strengths and working as a collaborative team.
• Deploy effective project controls to deliver business case outcomes, customer requirements, deliverables and benefits in-line with project management functional requirements – with a specific focus in this role on requirements capture, assumption, exclusion and dependency management, and risk/opportunity collation, management and governance.
• Develop the programme approach to – and mobilisation of – risk management and benefits realisation, with the support of the C&P manager and Head of Programme, to align with developing business and contractual standards and lead on embedding business best practice.
• Support in the wider operation of a rigorous project controls system, including risk and opportunity management, scheduling, change control, earned value management, cost control, estimating and commercial integration; ensuring processes are compliant with organisational and contractual requirements and that outputs are coherent and robust.

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

To be successful in this role you will have skills in:

• Interpretation of voluminous and evolving programme data to coherently document, update and communicate a clear set of requirements and bounding constraints for the programme.
• Stakeholder management and communication to: build relationships across boundaries, communicate the roles and responsibilities of the programme, and clearly cut through to key risks and their root causes.
• Leadership: leading aspects of work within high performing teams – delivering for internal and external stakeholders. Able to work collaboratively to deliver quality outputs, at pace, with clear logic and evidence.
• Knowledge of project management and controls, ideally with experience of requirement, dependency, assumption, risk, exclusion and opportunity management. APM PMQ, APMG PPC or equivalent valued.
• Good working knowledge of Programme Management, Enterprise Resource Planning and business MI systems such as ARM (Risk Manager), SAP, Primavera P6, FULCRUM and integrating data to insights.
• Resilience: experience working within challenging environments, with significant levels of personal resilience, persistence, and commitment.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines Business an individual has to hold Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if the individual does not currently already have this in place.

Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets associated with this role, candidates must be UK nationals.

This role is at a staff level. The professional level and the salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate. Interest in similar roles can be raised to the recruiter.

End date 7.7.25

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