Controls & Assurance Lead - Programme Euston

Job summary

About DIO MPP – Nuclear Infrastructure

As the MOD’s infrastructure expert DIO has a significant role to provide defence-wide, advice, guidance and delivery of strategic estates management, strategic asset management, disposals and acquisitions and major programme and project delivery as well as the management and leadership of the supply chain.

The continuous at sea deterrent is strategically critical output for UK Defence and the infrastructure that supports the current capability, and wider submarine operations, in preparation for future capability requires significant investment.

DIO Nuclear Directorate provides a mission aligned infrastructure service to the CASD, providing major capital programme delivery, estates and infrastructure services to our Front-Line Commands and Agencies. The directorate is responsible for the delivery of the existing demand, the development of the next demand and the planning of future demands alongside our Royal Navy, Submarine Delivery Agency and Defence Nuclear Organisation sponsors.

The portfolio of work comprises a number of complex estates and infrastructure projects including;

• The Clyde Infrastructure Programme; a £1.8B programme of work of new build facilities and refurbishment to support current and future operations on HMNB Clyde. The programme of work is part of Government Major Programmes & Projects and is considered a top 100 government programme.

• Programme Euston: a complex engineering and construction project to ensure readiness for the Submarine Flotilla’s newest addition, Dreadnought class submarines.

• Future Programme Development: to determine the future investment strategy to ensure the infrastructure across our estate meets the MOD’s nuclear infrastructure demand.

This is an exciting time to join the team, the delivery environment is both challenging and rewarding.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

Governance:

• Manage and support the delivery governance on behalf of the Programme.

• Maintain governance to organisational objectives and departmental standards and frameworks ensuring alignment.

• Critically appraise delivery forecasts, apply management interventions to achieve agreed business output.

• Support collating budget forecasts, risks and assumptions data for MOD SPC planning rounds aligned with corporate reporting planning cycles

• Develop and maintain programme controls documentation e.g. Programme Risk, Schedule and Performance Management Plans. Ensuring Projects and Programmes have PCT management plans.

• Take a strategic view across the programme and in consideration of DIO overall business objectives highlight conflicts and issues, identify and exploit opportunities, identify and mitigate risk

• Interaction with key Scrutineers/Assurers community internal and external to DIO to ensure flow of information through the business case process

Assurance:

• Manage the delivery of future business cases and supporting artifacts for the Programme, ensuring the correct level of challenge of the evidence prior to presenting to senior leadership for sign off.
• Track business cases through the Forward Approvals Plan (FAP), through liaison with key personnel to understand any risk to future DIO spend. Track project performance against approved P50 / P90 time and cost envelopes to support reference class forecasting.
• Lead and co-ordinate the completion of applicable Gateway reviews and associated documentation

Supplier Management

• Support the wider DIO NID on ongoing development of commercial frameworks

• Support development of performance measurement metric in conjunction with the Commercial team.

• Support development of monthly reporting and key matrix using information from the supply chain in conjunction with the commercial team.

• You will be the named Service Manager on key DIO contracts, ensuring resource and rates for seconded members of the team are managed, liaising closely with the commercial team.

Infrastructure Business Management

• Support resource planning for the programme. Ensure that staff are actively engaged in the demand planning process to maximise the utilisation of funds and achieve greatest benefit for Users and the Estate

• Contribute to the evolution of strategic requirements and development of the programme with SME advice

• Accountable for applying appropriate governance and management controls, adherence to Health and Safety policy and also financial and managerial delegations

• Track and manage the manning requirements and recruitment including SPC and DIO resource bidding process.

• Support management of communications for the Programme wider with DIO NID and across our NC customer community team.

Continuous Improvement

• Support implementation of LFE across the programme.

• You will ensure that the programme uses LFE to plan for better outcomes in the future and you will evaluate and update as necessary programme documentation, standards, and templates.

Wider DIO business and improvement

• Support wider Government initiatives including OGC Reviews and Government Construction Strategy

• Responsible for delivery of communications and engagement activities for major team/function in line with DIO Corporate Communications strategic messaging and wider MOD communications policy and guidance

• Undertake/support activity in relation to Strategic Asset Management including liaising on proposed activities and advising of possible opportunities

• Undertake or support activities in relation to continuous improvement and procurement initiatives

• Ensure that the deep expert knowledge of Defence, the Department, DIO and the construction industry that exists in the MPP resource pool is energised to contribute to the development of the Estate. This will be both proactive, providing delivery perspective, and in response to strategic initiatives as and when required.

Person specification

Essential

• Strong stakeholder management skills

• Experience in managing commercial relationships
• Governance and assurance
• Understanding of wide range of project controls functions such as risk, schedule, planning and cost control.

Desirable

• Project management in an Infrastructure/construction environment

• Understanding of a wide range of disciplines (infrastructure, construction, engineering, nuclear, safety, environmental, etc).

• Construction project lifecycle knowledge

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Governance - Project Delivery Capability Framework
• Assurance - Project Delivery Capability Framework

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £61,630, Ministry of Defence contributes £17,854 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window