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Project Controls SME - SC Cleared
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Role: Project Controls SME
Rate: £450 to £500 Inside IR35
Location: Corsham 3 days per week
Contract: Full-time, initially until the end of March, with potential 3-6 month extensions
Start Date: Estimated 3 November
Clearance: SC Minimum
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Project Controls SME to provide independent assurance, oversight, and constructive challenge across the NGFN Live Service portfolio.
You will work with Delivery Managers, PMO teams, and senior stakeholders to strengthen governance, improve project controls, and provide accurate management information to support effective decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct project maturity assessments, health checks, and assurance reviews.
- Review and challenge project plans, schedules, critical paths, milestones, and forecasts.
- Assure project controls across risk management, RAIDO, dependencies, change control, costs, and resources.
- Analyse delivery performance, RAG status, KPIs, and management information to identify risks and improvement opportunities.
- Produce assurance reports with clear recommendations for senior stakeholders.
- Support governance forums and promote consistent project controls standards, tools, and reporting.
- Provide guidance and constructive challenge to improve delivery confidence and project performance.
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Essential Experience
- Significant experience in Project Controls, PMO Assurance, or Programme Assurance within complex delivery environments.
- Strong knowledge of planning, scheduling, risk management, cost forecasting, resource management, and governance.
- Proven experience conducting assurance reviews, maturity assessments, and control effectiveness reviews.
- Strong analytical skills, including schedule analysis, performance reporting, MI dashboards, and KPI frameworks.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to challenge constructively and influence senior decision-makers.
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