Project Controls Director

Turner & Townsend; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in the United Arab Emirates seeks a Project Controls Director to lead the cost management, planning, change, reporting, risk and information management across major contracts. The role requires extensive experience in project controls leadership within large construction programs.

You will drive regional capability, guide bids, manage budgets, and ensure service excellence while fostering a diverse, inclusive team culture.

Qualifications

• Minimum 15–20 years in project controls management for major construction projects.
• Ideally degree qualified, background in QS or project management.
• Experience leading large teams.
• Mining experience is essential.
• Delivery of project controls across multiple sectors and programmes.
• Generalist with estimating, cost, scheduling, risk, change, and reporting.
• Experience in client and contractor environments is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Recognised regional expert in their field both internally and externally.
• Provide regional technical leadership support to regional pursuits & bids.
• Delivery of regional Project Controls team budget.
• Leadership of people, engagement and development.
• Responsible for growth of the team with an inclusive culture.
• Lead and assure service excellence.
• Compliance with Business Management Systems (contract, risk, health, safety and wellbeing, delivery, finance).
• Lead Health Safety & Wellbeing activities for the cost centre.
• Lead contract execution & compliance.
• Visible regional market presence.
• Securing regional bids for the cost centre.
• Resourcing and capability build to meet regional needs.

Skills

Project Controls Leadership

Cost Management

Planning / Scheduling

Risk Management

Contract Compliance

Education

Degree-qualified (QS or PM background)

Job description

Job description

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success. Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

The Project Controls Director is responsible for the management of the Project Controls Function across all the work packages/major contracts within the project. The Project Controls Director leads the delivery of Cost Management, Planning / Scheduling, Change, Reporting, Risk, and Information Management for the work packages.

Key responsibilities

• Recognised as our regional expert in their respective fields both internally and externally
• Provide regional technical leadership support to regional pursuits & bids
• Delivery of respective regional Project Controls team budget (business performance
• Leadership of people, including engagement and development leadership as well as effective deployment
• Responsible for the continuing growth of the team, developing a diverse and inclusive culture
• Lead and assure service excellence
• Compliance with our Business Management Systems.- contract, risk, health, safety and wellbeing, delivery, finance
• Lead Health Safety & Wellbeing activities for respective cost centre
• Lead contract execution & compliance
• Visible regional market presence
• Securing regional bids for cost centre
• Responsible for resourcing and capability build to meet need in region

Qualifications

• A minimum of 15 - 20 years professional experience as a Project Controls Management for the development and / or delivery of major construction projects
• Ideally Degree qualified, likely to have come through from a QS or Project Management background.
• Experience of leading large teams
• Mining experience is essential
• Demonstrable success in delivery of projects as a Project Controls Director, specifically in the co-ordination and management of project controls teams
• Worked across multiple sectors, both at major project level (delivering project controls) and at programme level (setting up project services functions, processes, systems and providing monitoring, assurance and optimisation services)
• A generalist, covering estimating, cost, scheduling, risk, change, performance measurement and reporting, with capability to establish the management system (process and procedure) and the information management approach (the project controls tools). Highly conversant with contract strategy and establishing and embedding the project controls approach across the supply chain
• Experience of working within both client and contractor environments an advantage

Additional Information

Role dependencies

• Reports into the Head of Project Management / Programme Director

Location and travel

• The post holder will be based in our office location in the UAE, or on our client site office
• There will be a requirement for very occasional travel across the region / sites

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us atwww.turnerandtownsend.com/

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property ofTurner & Townsend and arenot subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team,to submit candidates for review.

Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:

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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property ofTurner & Townsend and arenot subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team,to submit candidates for review.