As a Principal Cost Lead, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. This is a new role to bring additional cost control leadership to major submarines programmes.

Day-to-day, you'll be Leading the Submarines Cost Control teams to set and maintain project baseline budgets, oversee control of commitments and accruals, ensuring accurate and reliable cost forecasting, and lead on resource management for the submarines cost control teams.

Provide leadership and team management for the Cost Team

Liaising with Risk, Scheduling and Estimating Leads to ensure integrated reporting

Oversee implementation of change management in alignment with requirements

Collate performance and cost reports and associated analysis. Identify and offer mitigation actions where appropriate.

Lead on provision of resource and financial forecast data into the project

Extensive, relevant experience in a similar environment / business sector

Experienced in various contracting methodologies (e.g. FIDIC/NEC/JCT)

Advanced knowledge of cost management and earned value techniques

Quantitative risk analysis experience

Full project lifecycle experience

Ideally a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering / Project Management or a related field or equivalent experience

Project Planning and Controls Practitioner - Desirable

Project Fundamentals qualification - Desirable

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave

Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement

'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity