Job Description

The role is responsible for

establishing and discharging the Project Control System activities across the

Qatar In-Service Typhoon Availability Service Operation at Dukhan Airbase,

Qatar, as CAM133. This involves all project control activities to ensure a

robust baseline is monitored and spend is appropriately captured on a regular

basis.

Provide analysis & challenge, critical review, guidance, & recommendations to line management. Establish, apply, and improve, Project Control best practice procedures, methods and systems,

ensuring their appropriate application.

Gather, synthesize &

integrate information relating to performance (cost, resources and outputs), monitor and report progress against plans, identify trends, analyse and interpret data and information to ensure all data

and information is accurate, generate and publish regular reports, including contract review packs, to senior managers, across a range of work packages.

The role will also

responsible for Resource Management activities associated with the Qatar

Typhoon Availability Service from a cost / CSR aspect.

The role will also be required to support and conduct any ad-hoc PM activities required due to the nature of

Operations at Dukhan Airbase.

Project Control:

Establish, mobilise and support line management to own and manage the Qatar Dukhan CSR for the Availability Service
Period of Performance
Provide analysis &
challenge, critical review, guidance, & recommendations to line management relating to the interpretation and analysis of project control data such that line management are fully briefed and

up to date with current status of project or service;
Establish, apply, and
improve, Project Control procedures, methods and systems, ensuring their

appropriate application;
Ensure compliance with the
Operational Framework utilising appropriate toolsets, relevant Project

Management policies, and all project management tools and techniques, e.g. Life

cycle management, risk registers,

change control, project control etc.;
Analyse and interpret
project management information across a range of work packages to identify

trends and variances, generate variance reports & recommendations and

communicate to senior management as appropriate;
Interpret costs and budgets to ensure accurate allocation of costs, report variances and trends in line with project control
conventions;
Provide regular detailed spend reporting to line management, to ensure control of costs Maintain and update change control,
risk registers, databases and all other toolsets such that these processes are accurate and up to date;
Support the integration of project control information from the PM team to ensure consistency and alignment across
the programme
Maintain Project Control
data within toolsets such as PM Compass, Predict! and the BCR database,

ensuring that data is topical at all times.
All other ad-hoc project control activities associated with Dukhan.

Resource Management:

Provide support to the Business Management Lead for
control of the Resource management aspects of the Typhoon Availability Service, by interpreting costs and budgets to ensure accurate allocation of costs, report variances and trends in line with the V&V Estimating Resource model;
Provide
analysis & challenge, critical review, guidance, & recommendations to

line management relating to the interpretation and analysis of resource costs

associated with Third Party Resource providers and internal BAE Systems roles.
Provide TM1 and IBP forecast demands Ensure compliance with the
Operational Framework and cross-Functional demands for resource trend data and requirements.

Provide In-Service Project Management and Contract support (as required):

Provide Operational Project Management support to progress BAE Systems contractual obligations and to supporting
functions on base (IT, Human Resources, Business Support Team)
Coordinate and collate status reports for senior Contractual Operational reviews for line management review;

Additional responsibilities / Activities:

Ensure compliance with the mandated BAE Systems Governance Framework, including,
but not limited to; Life Cycle Management (LCM), Business Continuity Management

(BCM) - Incident Management (IM), Gifts & Hospitality (G&H), Responsible Document Record Management

(RDRM), Export Control, SHE, et al.
This role will also be required to support and conduct any ad-hoc PM activities required due to the nature of Operations
at Dukhan Airbase.

Requirements

Qualifications/Functional Knowledge:

Functional Knowledge & Experience:

Experienced
and in-depth Project Control knowledge and techniques in an Operational Aircraft Support environment is preferred;
Experienced
resource demand management and forecasting;
High
level of MS Office knowledge and application;
Programme
Reporting experience;
Understanding
and appreciation of operating in a customer-focused organisation in the Middle East;
Commercial
and Contractual Awareness;
Purchasing
Process and Export control awareness;
Contract
Status Reporting (CSRs).

Business Expertise:

Requires
good analytical skills, able to manipulate data to identify trends and data

shortages. At this level is able to assess if data is complete and accurate.
Requires
the ability to appropriately engage with and challenge a wide range of

stakeholders on project performance & data validity
Understands
and is able to use and interpret all project management tools sets.
Requires
a good understanding of the structure of costs and performance for the service

area or project, is able to monitor progress using BAES systems and methods of

control and reporting
Capable
of performing detailed performance analysis using a range of PM toolsets and

techniques
Recommended
experience of using the following systems:

- Predict!
- PM Compass
- JIRA
- Confluence / Tableau
- BCR Database

Qualifications:

Roles typically require a university degree, or an extensive
amount of practical knowledge gained through experience;
Proficient level of English, written & verbal.

Problem Solving:

High competency in data analysis & critical thinking Ability to challenge and engage at all levels of the
business
Able to perform at both a tactical and strategic level in
order to report information appropriately in all settings
Ability to work under pressure and to timescales; Ability to recognise and escalate issues in a timely manner;

Interpersonal Skills:

Diplomacy skills required in order to work across business
boundaries to achieve optimum solutions;
Exceptional verbal communication skills across different
nationalities;
Presentation skills for effective reporting against areas of
responsibility;
Strong stakeholder management at various levels of authority
both internally and externally and confidence to direct challenge/question all

levels of the organisation;
Time Management skills to effectively discharge work across
different areas;
Confidence to hold/chair meetings & working groups for
associated areas of work;
* A self-starter.