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Salary: GBP 40,000 - 60,000 / annual
Aquark Technologies is seeking a Project Control Officer to own project controls and scheduling for hardware and R&D initiatives. This role sits at the intersection of schedule management, budget tracking, and cross-functional coordination.
Core Responsibilities:
You will own and maintain comprehensive project and build schedules covering hardware and R&D milestones, serving as the single source of truth for schedule status. You'll track spend against budget across project workstreams, flag variances, and help prepare forecasts for leadership. Weekly and monthly status reporting on schedule progress, budget position, and key risks will be a regular cadence.
You'll maintain the project risk and issue log, follow up on action items across teams, and support change control by logging and tracking scope, schedule, and budget changes as projects evolve. Building and maintaining dashboards (Excel, Power BI) that provide clear visibility of schedule and cost status is essential.
In a supporting capacity, you'll monitor delivery status of critical long-lead components (cryogenics, optics, lasers, RF electronics) and contracted work as an input to the schedule. You'll flag to the procurement team when a part's status puts a milestone at risk and reflect that in your reporting. You'll coordinate with procurement and lab teams to keep schedule data accurate without owning vendor relationships, RFQs, or purchase orders.
You'll act as the point person for "where do things stand" across schedule, budget, and key dependencies—pulling information from hardware leads, program managers, and procurement into one coherent picture. You'll support project audits, close-out documentation, and lessons-learned tracking.
Requirements:
Essential: 1–3 years of experience in project coordination, project controls, program/business operations, or a related analytical role (internships and adjacent experience count). Degree in Engineering, Physics, Business, Project Management, or related field (or equivalent practical experience). Strong Excel/Google Sheets skills; comfortable building and maintaining schedules, trackers, and dashboards; advanced Excel/Power BI advantageous. Highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable pulling status updates from multiple people and systems. Clear written and verbal communication for reporting to technical and leadership audiences.
Desirable: Exposure to hardware, lab, or fab environments (physics, optics, cryogenics, semiconductor, or similar deep-tech programs). Formal project management qualification. Exposure to procurement or supply chain coordination. Interest in quantum computing or emerging hardware technology.
