Lead Project Cost Controller - Bristol, United Kingdom - Mane Contract Services

Description

Job Description

We are looking for people to join our clients Project management and controls function by implementing complementary cost control disciplines, maintaining a strong project estimating and cost management community across the defence business area.

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday + bank holiday + potential to accrue 3 additional days
• Reservist in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave
• Hybrid working available – 2 days on site
• Flexible working available
• Pension up to 8%
• Employee Share Plan
• Professional memberships, personal development and training opportunities
• Employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
• High street discounts on over 850 retailers

About the Company:

For over 130 years, our client has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. As an international defence company, our client supports and enhances their customers' defence and security capabilities and critical assets, meeting their requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility.

The company is a trusted provider of integrated solutions for global defence and security, with a wide portfolio of best-in-class intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance solutions, communications, and weapons launch and handling solutions across all domains, integrating the best of industry to meet our customers' needs.

The Opportunity

• Maintain a strong project estimating and cost management community, capability and culture across the business
• Lead individuals specialised in estimating and cost management, including professional development, mentoring and coaching
• Work with the PM&PC function operations lead to generate a pipeline of qualified and experienced estimating and cost management professionals in line with delivery demand
• Take a leading role in shaping the future of project estimating and cost management within the business.

Requirements:

• Significant experience of project estimating and cost management/control techniques
• Including estimating, forecasting, performance reporting and risk analysis
• Comprehensive experience of delivering estimating and cost management within projects and programmes for large and technically complex equipment or system delivery contracts
• Knowledge of project related software tools, such as MSP, P6, Active Risk Manager, Deltec Cobra etc
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to interact successfully at all levels.

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