Change & Risk Practitioner

Turner & Townsend Plc.; London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Change & Risk Practitioner to join their Project Controls team. This pivotal role involves supporting major construction projects in the Life Sciences and Pharma sectors across the UK and Europe. You will be key in performance reporting, risk management, and engaging with clients to enhance project delivery. If you're passionate about transforming challenges into opportunities and have a strong background in project controls, this is your chance to make a significant impact in a collaborative environment that values innovation and excellence.

Qualifications

• Experience in project controls within life sciences or data centre sectors is essential.
• Degree educated with industry experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop work breakdown structures and performance baselines.
• Produce project control reports and provide performance analysis.

Skills

Project Controls Management

Change Management

Risk Management

Earned Value Management (EVM)

Communication Skills

Education

Degree in relevant field

Tools

Oracle Primavera

MS Project

Excel

PRISM

Job 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 currently recruiting for a Change & Risk Practitioner to undertake duties within our Project Controls team, supporting major construction projects across the Life Sciences / Pharma / Data Centre sectors.

The Change & Risk Practitioner will work as part of our Project Controls team on high profile construction projects throughout the UK and Europe, providing performance reporting and analysis support. This may be part of a large team or as the key day to day contact point with the client.

Typical activities include:

• Working with cost and planning engineers to develop work breakdown structures and robust performance baselines.
• Establishing progress and cost monitoring methods.
• Producing project control reports.
• Providing performance analysis and recommendations for our clients.
• Defining and delivering the Risk scope.
• Engaging with the Client teams for contributions.
• Carrying out and demonstrating the benefits of QSRA and QCRA exercises.
• Supporting the Client in raising the profile of project risk management.
• Leading continuous Risk Management improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Previous experience working in a project controls environment within the life sciences, pharmaceutical or data centre sectors is required, as is experience in at least one of the following: Programme Controls Management, Earned Value (EVM), Change & Risk Management, Planning, Project Controls and or PMO.
• Applicants will ideally be degree educated, with previous industry & sector experience being essential.
• Previous experience of the following tools (or one of) is also required: Oracle Primavera, MS Project, Excel, PRISM (Cost Management System).
• Applicants will also require excellent written and verbal communication skills, be rigorous in following documented processes and governance and be able to demonstrate the ability to innovate in creative ways to meet the challenges of the changing project environment.