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    The Air business within QinetiQ is involved in a wide variety of exciting projects and programmes, from innovative research, through to modifications or complex flight trials across all domains. As a member of our project controls community, you can expect to be assigned to project teams to deliver projects in the UK, as well as international opportunities as we continue to grow.

    We have a Project Controller opportunity based at our Boscombe Downs site supporting the Helicopters Team. You will be responsible for the delivery of project controls within an assigned team, under the leadership of a Project Manager or Principal Project Controller on standard and complex Project teams.

    Key Accountabilities

    • Supporting a Principal Project Controls Team or Project Controller in the provision of support to Integrated Delivery Teams and other complex strategic programmes.
    • Delivering project support tasks within assigned team; MS Project, lifecycle briefcase, project reporting, invoicing and other project document creation and management.
    • Delivery project finance; debtors and cash collection, calculation of accruals, collation of cost journals and facility costs.
    • Supporting improvement activities, and sharing knowledge skills and best practice.

    Key Capabilities & Knowledge

    • Awareness of project management; the project lifecycle and project finances.
    • Sharing knowledge, skills and best practice across QinetiQ.
    • Demonstrable competence in SAP, MS Excel (including add-ins), Word, Outlook, Project, PowerPoint and SharePoint.
    • Good organisational and record keeping skills.
    • Awareness of the project lifecycle and sales processes.
    • Experience of working to corporate procedures and the use of corporate tools.
    • Strong organisational skills with ability to prioritise workload and multi-task.
    • Good communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work with individuals at varying levels.
    • Ability to work as part of a team and well as unsupervised.

    Essential Experience & Qualifications

    • Educated to a minimum of GCSE level (to included English and Mathematics)
    • Competence against the agreed Project controls Competency Framework at a level of Foundation or APM Introductory Certificate: Project Fundamentals Qualification

    Desirable Experience & Qualifications

    • Experience in Defence, Aerospace or other closely related sectors

    Why join QinetiQ?

    As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

    You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in an diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture here.

    Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits. You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more.

    About QinetiQ

    As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

    Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.