Craig Thompson

Project Director

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

About

Supportive leader with an excellent delivery record across the nuclear, defence and aerospace sectors. Strategic, systems thinker. Successful across programme delivery, project controls, business transformation, governance & assurance, business strategy, portfolio management and engineering & technology. A Chartered Project Professional, Engineer, Physicist and a Non-Executive Director.

Experience

  • BAE Systems (4 yrs 10 mos)
    • Project Director
      Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

    • Director - Project Management and Controls
      Jun 2023 - Apr 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

    • Project Management Authority - Integrated Combat Systems
      Sep 2022 - Jun 2023 · 10 mos

  • Non Executive Director at REAch2 Academy Trust
    Jun 2020 - Aug 2023 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Rolls-Royce (10 yrs)
    • Head of Project Controls
      Nov 2020 - Oct 2021 · 1 yr

      HoPC for the Dreadnought Alliance, a collaborative construct between the MoD's Submarine Delivery Agency (SDA), BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce to deliver the Dreadnought-Class of Submarines.

    • Senior Programme Manager - Product Development & Technology
      Aug 2019 - Nov 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Programme Manager for 'Time on Wing', delivered numerous projects to double the life of the Trent 7000 and meet our business plan. Accountable owner for burndown of circa £1bn risk via improving product maturity and extending the life of our engines.

    • Programme Manager - Transformation
      Nov 2018 - Aug 2019 · 10 mos

      Led the successful implementation of the flagship Submarines transformation programme, 'Integrated Business Planning and Controls (IBPC)', to improve business performance to our customer and meet MoD Earned Value Management System (EVMS) contractual requirements. Deployed new organisation design, PM processes, PM toolsets (P6, ARM, EVMS), training campaign and governance & assurance structure within multi-million pound budget, through a cross-functional team of 26 people. Finalists for APM 'Transformation Project of the Year 2019', and Project Controls Expo 'Global Transformation Project of the Year 2019'.

  • Officer Cadet at British Army
    Sep 2008 - Jun 2010 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Manchester & Salford University Officer Training Corps