Project Controller

Introduction

Your Mission

• Provide operational and transactional support to the project control function, ensuring efficient execution of day‑to‑day project control activities.
• Prepare, consolidate and maintain project reporting, including the collection of inputs for internal and external reporting.
• Record, track and follow up project actions, ensuring decisions, open points and commitments are monitored and closed in a timely manner.
• Support the management of project control boards, ensuring actions, decisions and outcomes are properly tracked and followed.
• Support the organisation and control of project reviews, including coordination of documentation deliveries, tracking of review items, and preparation of minutes of meeting.
• Collect and consolidate inputs for the project risk register, supporting risk identification, monitoring and reporting.
• Maintain and follow up contract change records, ensuring traceability and up‑to‑date status of changes.
• Perform administrative and financial control tasks, including checks of internal forms, processing of procurement and confirmation workflows.
• Support monitoring of the project cost status, contributing to financial visibility and control.
• Maintain and update the project human resources plan, ensuring alignment between staffing, workload and project needs.
• Maintain financial and project control databases, ensuring data accuracy, consistency and availability for reporting and decision‑making.
• Perform general project administrative tasks required to support effective project execution and governance.

What You'll Bring

• Provide clear, baseline‑driven project schedules, cost trackers and forecasts showing actuals, variances and outlook.
• Deliver accurate and timely project reporting that consolidates schedule, cost, risks, actions and issues.
• Maintain reliable action, decision and open‑point registers with clear ownership and closure tracking.
• Produce and keep up‑to‑date risk registers linking risks to schedule, cost and resource impacts.
• Support control boards and reviews through structured preparation, minutes, action follow‑up and status visibility.
• Ensure consistent and high‑quality data across all project control tools, logs and databases.
• Integrate inputs from technical teams, configuration control and finance into a coherent control picture.
• Provide management‑ready dashboards and summaries tailored to different stakeholder needs.
• Identify early deviations in schedule, cost or resources and proactively support corrective actions.
• Ensure audit‑ready, traceable project records that can be confidently explained and defended.

• Advanced use of financial and planning tools (e.g., MS Excel).
• Work experience in the Space domain will be an asset.
• Need to be EU national and eligible to obtain EU Personal Security Clearance.

• Effective management of self with track record of involvement in change in complex and demanding environments, interacting with individuals at all levels of the organization.
• Methodical and proactive, with initiative and capability to work autonomously.
• Problem-solving and creativity-oriented attitude.
• ⁠Excellent communication skills, including relationship development and stakeholder management.

What We Offer: More Than Just a Job

At Serco, we believe that a career should come with more than just a paycheck, it should provide support, security and a sense of balance in your life. Your salary will be paid promptly on Fridays before the 28th of each month, giving you peace of mind about your finances. 

We support your daily life and commute in practical ways. If you travel to work, you can claim a travel allowance of €0.21 per kilometre for up to 150 km, or you can have your public transport fully reimbursed. For those working from home, there’s a small daily allowance of €2 to cover extra costs and new employees can be reimbursed up to €500 for a desk or chair to make their home workspace comfortable.

When your work takes you on missions or travel, all business-related expenses are fully covered and for peace of mind during tax season, our appointed advisor will assist you in completing your income tax forms. If you enjoy cycling, our bicycle scheme allows you to benefit from a tax-efficient allowance of up to €749, one year of full insurance with an additional €89 per year for accessories.

Serco also cares about your long-term security. All employees are covered under a collective life insurance scheme and our health insurance partnership with Zilverenkruis Achmea offers discounts of 5% on basic coverage and up to 10% on additional plans. Our company pension scheme, managed via Nationale Nederlanden, follows the Dutch State Pension framework, ensuring you can plan confidently for the future.

In addition, in emergency situations, you may request an advance salary payment of up to one month’s net salary at the discretion of your line manager. To support your wellbeing and daily work, we offer up to €250 reimbursement for work glasses to reduce blue light strain and provide access to Benefits & Work, offering multiple discounts for online shopping. For lifelong learning, all employees receive a 35% discount on programs at Webster University.

At Serco, our benefits are designed to make your life easier, healthier and more flexible, so you can focus on contributing to groundbreaking space missions while feeling supported every step of the way. 

Relocation

The Netherlands' central location in Europe makes it an ideal base for travel and business within the EU. Major cities are well-connected by road, rail and air with Amsterdam Schiphol Airport one of Europe's busiest and most well-connected airports, facilitating easy international travel.

Serco offers relocation support for all EU passport holders that are planning to relocate to the Netherlands and work for Serco B.V.