RT-C/TEC-PCS/00324 Programme / Project Controller

Job Introduction

The Serco Group is a FTSE 250 corporation with over 70,000 staff in 30 countries. Our strategy is to be a superb provider of public services, by being the best managed business in our sector. We are a focused business to government (B2G) business, specialising across five sectors: Defence, Justice & Immigration, Transport, Health and Citizen Services.

Serco’s space heritage over the last 40 years has placed us in the Space News Top 50 Space Industry Manufacturing and Services Companies. Our European operations have ca. 2,000 employees delivering critical services to public institutions such as the European Commission, EUMETSAT or the European Space Agency – where we are the largest on-site service provider with ca. 300 staff.

For our activities in ESTEC, we are currently looking for a Programme / Project Controller.

Role Responsibility

You will contribute to the smooth operations of the TEC Directorate and to the efficient management of its resources and technical infrastructure. In particular, you will be assigned to the Programme and Project Control Service and will provide support for the project control activities for the different projects under the responsibility of the Systems Department in TEC.

You may also be asked to provide general assistance in the field of resources and activities controlling under the responsibility of the department.

General Programme / Project Controlling:

• Support to the planning, preparation, execution and follow-up of projects / programmes activities in terms of schedule, related procurement actions, costs including preparation of CaC as relevant, manpower including support, etc. including:
  • assisting in preparing, developing and maintaining programme level plans;
  • assisting in the definition and in maintaining related work/procurement plans and related execution and contract actions plans using local tools as applicable;
  • monitoring of the implementation of the programmes and of activities, as appropriate, and preparation of related reports and provision of management information as required;
  • evaluating the results and main achievements of the programme, elaborating related KPIs, and preparing periodic overview publications.
• In the field of resources (i.e. financial and manpower) for programme / project(s):
  • assisting in the preparation of long-term, medium term and in-year resource plans;
  • monitoring and controlling the implementation of the plans in line with resource targets, performing forecasting, identifying deviations and related recovery actions, producing related reports;
  • reviewing / checking of ESA internal expenditures such as re-charges, support services and purchases for consistency with Cost–at–Completion (CAC) of industrial contracts;
  • checking commitments for consistency with budgets and ESA’s procedures and consumption of commitment ceiling and initiating related budgetary transfers as required.

• In the field of procurements and execution of contracts:
  • support to the preparation and follow-up of the Agency’s tender actions;
  • support to the proposal evaluations as expert for the price and schedule verification and analysis;
  • support to the preparation of the financial contract commitment and the data entry of the milestone payment plans in the Agency’s system(s);
  • contributing to the elaboration, consolidation of related procurement work plans and detailed implementation plans (e.g. Contract Action Plan baseline) and related commitment consumption, cost and disbursement profiles;
  • ensuring that above plans are properly inserted in the appropriate management tools;
  • following-up of the progress of the procurement actions and contracts, and keeping track of status and maintaining the current actual and forecasting in the appropriate ESA tools;
  • creating related objects in esa-p, maintaining corresponding information in local applications as required and ensuring the correctness and coherence of related information;
  • monitoring and controlling of timely implementation of actions related to procurement and contractual matters, including monitoring of financial commitments, payment milestones and invoicing;
  • supporting industrial invoicing process and payment verification and control.
• In the field of programme industrial return
  • initiation and coordination of the periodic updating of relevant Industrial Return data base to reflect the current commitments status and the industrial policy forecast for planned activities;
  • verification of coherence with ESA corporate Industrial Return data;
  • maintenance of list of specific compensation or improvement measures and follow-up the implementation;
  • verification of coherence of proposed procurement actions with the planned industrial return policy targets of the programme / project, including the compensation measures.

• Support to programme / project level risk management;
  • Maintaining up to date the related data, performing data analysis, identifying deviations w.r.t. plans / targets and production of associated reports to the responsible management and to the concerned customers when relevant;
  • Operation of the associated management information tools and system databases;
  • Support to the responsible entity in the definition of new and improvement of existing processes and tools and production of related documents.

Successful Candidate

Requirements

You should bring a Master of Science in Engineering, MBA or a Degree in Business Administration, at least 4 years of relevant working experience and the following:

• Ability to understand and adapt to the ESA specific context and environment;
• Previous experience with relevant corporate applications and / or TEC IT Tools would be a distinctive advantage. Several years of experience with SAP and in particular ECC and SRM modules is required;
• Ability to readily assimilate and coordinate input data and providing timely output. Reliability, rigor and initiative in the execution of the assigned tasks;
• Autonomy, initiative and capacity to identify priority actions and to handle high workload.

Application procedure

Important:

All applicants must hold a current valid work permit for the Netherlands or be EU / EEA nationals.

Due to the high interest these roles generate, Serco reserves the right to commence, alter or conclude the recruitment process prior to the closing date. If shortlisted, a recruiter will contact you directly. If not, your application will remain in our database and can be matched against future openings. You can also login at any time to apply to additional positions.

If you are interested in this vacancy, and think you have the skills and experience required, please apply via the relevant link available in Serco Europe’s Careers Hub: https://careershub.serco.eu/

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