Commercial & Planning Lead - Estimating & Cost Control

PD&MS Group; Grangemouth; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

PD&MS Group is seeking a Business Services Manager to provide leadership across Estimating, Cost Management, Planning and Commercial functions for the contract in Grangemouth. You will ensure compliance with client and company processes and authority requirements throughout the contract lifecycle.

The role oversees document control, estimating, cost, and planning teams, while driving risk management, schedule integrity, and KPI performance improvements.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Project Planning, Estimating and Cost Control.
• Understanding interfaces between engineering disciplines, project management and construction.
• Experience in using business systems and managing processes.
• Significant experience in planning software.
• Previous experience in a similar role.
• Experience in managing and developing others.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Supervise the contract Document Control, Estimating, Cost, and Planning personnel.
• Coordinate and elevate all commercial and contractual matters for appropriate functional review and approval.
• Identify, mitigate, manage and control risks in respect of delivery of services by monitoring risk factors and their responses, and initiating change as required.
• Prepare and implement contract process in full alignment with PDMS required standards at all times.
• Gather and applying project controls best practices and lessons learned.
• Review schedule reports for accuracy and work with the team to agree mitigation plans.
• Ensure that estimates meet agreed structure and overall accuracy levels and required approvals using agree Norms where appropriate.
• Report monthly to all Functional Management.
• Implement and monitor and report on agreed or allocated corrective actions to rectify any KPI performance below expected level.
• Fully implement and act as contract gatekeeper for full compliance of contract with PDMS delegation of authority rules at all times and report to Group Commercial Director on any suspected or noted deviation whatsoever.
• Establish and maintain links with relevant support functions to enable effective communication, planning and management of activities / initiatives including leading any necessary work streams or working groups.
• Ensure regular departmental and inter-departmental meetings are scheduled, and actions tracked and monitored to close out.
• Oversee planning and scheduling practices ensuring adequate and scalable arrangements are in place for the oversight of schedule and to ensure compliance with applicable standards / procedures.
• Oversee Work Breakdown and Project Coding Structures and cleanse and rectify inefficient structures or unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Participate in recruitment of new team resources and performance management, objective setting and discipline of allocated team members.
• Implement set objectives and demonstrate performance against them.
• Responsible for ensuring professional development is maintained and identified competency requirements are undertaken in a timely manner.
• Adherence to the company integrated management system.
• Compliance with quality assurance, health and safety and environmental policies.
• Demonstrate and promote PDMS QHSE principles and lead by example.
• Ensure unsafe activities are challenged.
• Adherence to the requirements of the best practice standards recommendations and processes in the undertaking of duties, in particular, risk assessment and control, reliability and failure prevention necessary to ensure the safe design, provision and use of tools, equipment and systems.
• Demonstrate and promote PDMS values and lead by example.
• Ensure direct report performance reviews are carried out within the required timescales (where applicable)

Skills

Project Planning

Estimating

Cost Control

Commercial Management

Risk Management

Education

Degree qualified in a relevant subject

Tools

MS Office

Planning software

Business Systems

Job description

PD&MS Group is seeking a Business Services Manager to provide leadership across Estimating, Cost Management, Planning and Commercial functions for the contract in Grangemouth. You will ensure compliance with client and company processes and authority requirements throughout the contract lifecycle.

The role oversees document control, estimating, cost, and planning teams, while driving risk management, schedule integrity, and KPI performance improvements.