Spirit AeroSystems

Overview

Spirit AeroSystems designs and builds aerostructures for both commercial and defense customers. With headquarters in Wichita, Kansas, Spirit operates sites in the U.S., U.K., France and Malaysia. The company's core products include fuselages, pylons, nacelles and wing components for the world's premier aircraft. Spirit AeroSystems focuses on affordable, innovative composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions to support customers around the globe.

Role Purpose

Control project management activity within the Program Management Project team including the maintenance of project business processes and documentation to comply with Corporate Project Management Best Practices, maintenance of action logs, level 1 plans and assisting with Risk and Opportunity management.

Project Controller

Salary: From £36,013 to £39,679 

This opportunity, based at our Prestwick site offers:

• 37 hour working week (half day Friday) 
• Shift premiums up to 33%, where applicable
• Overtime at time and a half, where applicable
• 33 days holiday per year, rising with service 
• Annual Bonus related to company performance 
• Defined contribution pension scheme (default contributions; 4% employee and 8% employer) 
• Virtual GP Service 365 days per year 
• Employee Assistance Program 
• A wide range of flexible benefits 
• Death in service payment (default 4 times basic salary) 
• Professional development and growth 
• Free car parking 
• And more!! 

Responsibilities

• Assist in developing and maintaining accurate Development and / or Production Schedules to support projects.
• Support the introduction and maintenance of Project Management Best Practices across the project.
• Assist Project Manager to create, and control the configuration of, all Project and functional level plans and activities during the non-recurring phase of new projects and major changes to existing projects.
• Assist the Project Manager in the development, reporting and ongoing review of appropriate performance metrics.
• Ensure accurate reporting through the maintenance of topical KPIs.
• Maintain Customer reports and presentations including the co-ordination of information for major programme and plan reviews.
• Assist the Project Manager in liaising with Finance and Commercial focal’s to support accurate reporting, monitoring and control of spend against Project budgets.
• Co-ordination and review of reporting packs for all Customer monthly Program Reviews.
• Assist Senior Project Controllers and Project Managers in managing the Opportunities and Risk process at local level, including, managing interfaces with internal functions.
• Maintain and develop (where applicable) ‘standard templates’ for reporting and presenting.
• Co-ordinate and host stakeholder calls and management of action item log.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Previous experience of working in a project environment
• Good understanding of program planning principles and drivers
• Project management skills to drive multi disciplines to support deliverables
• Financial and analytical skills
• Management and understanding of local and corporate processes
• Good written and communication skills
• Ability to communicate across management levels
• Confident in understanding other functions and challenging data where appropriate 
• Good people skills / ability to manage others as applicable

Decision Making Authority

• Authority to make day to day low/medium terms decisions.
• Authority to interpret and report data in a manner of different ways for various inputs to management and finance.
• Authority to make recommendations to First Level Management on output of various analysis and determine corrective actions required if applicable.

Closing Date; 10th April at 4pm

Spirit AeroSystems is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law.