Project Controller

• We are looking for a curious, process-minded Project Controller to join our growing delivery team in Glasgow, at the forefront of space technology
• This is not a role for someone who maintains what already exists, it is a role for someone who builds what is needed
• Spire’s programme delivery team is scaling and needs stronger controls, better tooling and clearer processes to support a portfolio of complex, multi-year programmes spanning satellite services and government and defence contracts
• You will work directly with Delivery Project Managers to establish the controls infrastructure that will keep programmes on track and gives leadership accurate, real-time visibility
• If you are analytical, self-directed and energised by building things from scratch and you have an interest in how modern tooling and AI can make programme delivery smarter, this role is for you
• Maintain programme schedules across the portfolio, including baseline management, critical path analysis, resource loading and logic health
• Design and implement controls frameworks, templates and reporting tools for use across the DPM team, identifying gaps in current process and building practical solutions
• Support cost performance tracking; maintaining actuals, ETC and spend-versus-budget analysis, identifying variances and recommending corrective actions
• Build and manage programme reporting in a project management platform, configuring dashboards, workflows and data structures that give DPMs and leadership real-time visibility of programme health
• Support formal change control processes, assessing schedule, cost and resource impact of proposed changes and maintaining the integrity of the programme baseline
• Interrogate risk and opportunity registers, ensuring key actions are tracked in the schedule and that progress toward risk retirement is visible
• Identify opportunities to improve how the team works — through better tooling, smarter use of data or process changes that reduce manual effort and increase accuracy

Benefits

• Name your own satellite: Be remembered throughout time by choosing a name for a LEMUR satellite.
• Family Leave: Family is important. Our parental and family leave is designed to let you make the most of those precious moments.
• Learning & development: Spire more than encourages and supports ongoing personal improvement and a growth mindset, we welcome it!
• Launch Attendance: One of the perks from launching satellites into space is that Spire often has VIP access to view the launch.
• Generous time off policy: Take the time you need. Our flexible time-off policy promotes a positive work-life balance.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Our EAP makes sure you have access to support and counseling sessions whenever you need it.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP): Our ESPP provides eligible employees with an opportunity to purchase Spire shares through accumulated contributions.
• Fitness Reimbursement: Spire encourages fitness activity to promote employee well-being with reimbursed gym membership expenses.
• Employee Referral Program: Spire is always looking for outstanding people to join our team, and you can help and be awarded a referral bonus.
• Healthy snacks & beverages: To help our employees to be as productive as possible, we provide healthy snacks and beverages in each of our offices.- Experience in project controls, planning or scheduling, ideally within aerospace, defence or a technically complex industry
• 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