Project Controller

Join Spire, a leading company in space technology, as a Project Controller in Glasgow. In this role, you will establish the controls infrastructure to keep complex, multi-year programmes on track and provide leadership with real-time visibility. You will design and implement controls frameworks, support cost performance tracking, build and manage programme reporting, and identify opportunities for improvement. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is analytical, self-directed, and passionate about building processes from scratch.

Missions

• Establish the controls infrastructure that will keep programmes on track and give leadership accurate, real-time visibility.
• Design and implement controls frameworks, templates and reporting tools for use across the Delivery Project Management team.
• Support cost performance tracking; maintaining actuals, ETC and spend-versus-budget analysis, identifying variances and recommending corrective actions.

Profil recherché

- Genuine curiosity about how project management platforms, data tools and AI can make delivery smarter, with a willingness to learn and experiment

- Analytical and detail-oriented, with the ability to work across schedules, cost data and performance metrics and identify what the numbers are actually saying

- Collaborative and credible - able to work across engineering, finance and programme teams and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike

- A builder, not just a maintainer: self-directed and proactive, able to design and implement process and tooling where nothing exists yet

- Proficiency with scheduling tools such as MS Project; able to build, baseline and interrogate a schedule, not just update one

- Exposure to AI tools and/ or data platforms such as Databricks or Power BI, and comfortable adopting new software quickly - curiosity and willingness to learn matters more than specific tool experience

- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business, Mathematics or a related field