Senior Project Controls Manager – Major Capital Infrastructure Programme

Senior Project Controls Manager – Major Capital Infrastructure Programme Rolls-Royce Submarines Derby   Why join Rolls-Royce?   At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.   By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Project Controls Manager to join the Rolls-Royce Submarines Major Infrastructure Programme The Programme is delivering a significant portfolio of complex infrastructure projects that will enable the future capability of the Submarines business. Effective Project Controls is fundamental to providing the transparency, insight and confidence required to successfully deliver this investment. As Senior Project Controls Manager, you will be the functional authority for Project Controls, owning the Project Controls framework, standards, processes and expectations to be applied consistently across our Major Projects. Project Controls Managers are embedded within individual Major Projects and work directly with their respective project leadership teams. Your role will provide functional leadership across this community, setting clear expectations for what good Project Controls looks like, assuring its effective application and developing capability across the programme. Working as a senior member of the Programme Team, you will bring together information from across the Major Projects to provide the Senior Leadership Team with independent, forward-looking insight into programme performance. You will ensure Project Controls goes beyond reporting what has happened, identifying trends, emerging risks, dependencies and potential interventions to support effective leadership decision-making. This is an influential senior leadership role requiring strong Project Controls expertise, sound judgement and the credibility to constructively challenge Major Project leadership while building a collaborative and high-performing Project Controls community.   Key Accountabilities Act as the functional authority for Project Controls across the Major Capital Infrastructure Programme, owning and continuously improving the Project Controls framework, standards, processes and ways of working Set clear expectations for Project Controls Managers embedded within the Major Projects, ensuring consistent and proportionate application of controls across the programme while recognising the differing scale, complexity and delivery phase of individual projects Define and oversee an integrated approach to planning and scheduling, cost management, risk and opportunity, change control, forecasting, Earned Value Management, performance measurement and reporting Ensure Major Projects establish and maintain robust and integrated performance baselines across scope, schedule and cost, providing a credible basis for measuring progress, understanding variance and forecasting outcomes Provide functional leadership, coaching and professional development to the Project Controls community, building capability and creating an environment in which knowledge, experience and best practice are shared across projects Establish an effective assurance framework for Project Controls, undertaking and commissioning maturity assessments, health checks and targeted reviews to provide confidence that controls are operating effectively Provide constructive challenge where Project Controls standards or project performance fall below expectations, working with Project leadership and embedded Project Controls Managers to agree and drive appropriate improvement actions Integrate and interpret controls information from across