Programme / Project Controller (Aerospace)

Location: Noordwijk, Netherlands

Company

International space services company providing managed services, human resources, and consulting across engineering, science, software, operations, finance, and administration for European space programmes.

What you will do

• Implement planning and project control procedures covering cost, schedule, resources, industrial return, and management reporting.
• Support tender preparation, contract changes, proposal evaluation, contract negotiations, and industrial procurement activities.
• Monitor industrial contracts, including cost, progress, invoicing, payments, deviations, trends, and geo return, using SAP.
• Maintain annual budgets, manpower plans, cost-at-completion forecasts, financial commitments, and industrial return files.
• Prepare programme, workforce, financial, and risk data and provide regular reporting to ESA management and national delegations.
• Maintain risk registers, schedules, documentation configuration, and project documentation procedures using ARAMIS and Eclipse.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Engineering, MBA, Business Administration, or an equivalent qualification, with a project control background.
• Experience controlling activities and resources in the aerospace industry, including Satcom space and ground segments.
• Experience with private-public partnership contracts, industrial procurement, cost-at-completion forecasting, and deviation analysis.
• Experience with project reviews, risk management, risk registers, high-level schedules, and document configuration control.
• Highly proficient with planning and project control tools such as SAP, MS Excel, and MS Project; familiarity with ESA applications such as ESA-P and Eclipse.
• Proficient written and spoken English, with strong planning, communication, organizational, and analytical skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with industrial return forecasting and reporting.
• Experience analyzing business cases and third-party investments.
• Knowledge of another official ESA language.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time assignment with a duration of six months.
• International working environment supporting European space programmes.
• Inclusive workplace committed to gender diversity and respectful collaboration.
• Opportunity to contribute to major programmes such as Galileo, Copernicus, ExoMars, Ariane, Vega, and the International Space Station.

Hiring process

• Submit a CV in English in Word or PDF format and quote reference NL-HP-26172.
• Applications are accepted until 02/10/2026.