Defence Project Controls Engineer (SC)

Turner & Townsend; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Project Controls Engineer to lead and support project controls activities within defence portfolios for UK MoD programmes. The role requires Sole UK National status with SC clearance and offers opportunities to shape scope, schedules, and cost control across multi-client projects.

You will contribute to planning, risk management, earned value analysis, and performance reporting while collaborating with finance and suppliers to drive informed delivery decisions.

Qualifications

• Have experience of delivering projects.
• Have Project Controls experience across one or more stages within the Project lifecycle.
• Have experience in the application of one or more Project Controls disciplines, including Planning and Scheduling, Cost Estimation, Cost Control, Risk Management or Performance Reporting and their associated software / tools.
• Have a basic understanding of the way in which the Integrated Project Controls disciplines operate.
• Hold a proactive, curious and 'can-do' attitude, as well as being an individual who is comfortable in uncertain and unclear project environments.
• Be a good communicator with ability to influence outcomes.
• Have a passion to build a community and support network beyond your delivery role.
• Have an undergraduate degree in a relevant technical or management field or suitable equivalent qualifications and experience.
• Hold or are working towards holding membership of a relevant professional body e.g. Association for Project Management, Project Management Institute.
• Be competent in using the software needed to perform the role.
• Have a desire to work within various sectors and with a range of clients

Responsibilities

• Working within and leading on specific workstreams within a cross-discipline Project Controls team.
• Contributing to project the scope definition through the use of exclusions, assumptions, interfaces, and dependencies, and coordinating the scope’s decomposition to enable the establishment of a Work Breakdown Structure.
• Working with the Integrated Project Team to support the establishment a robust, accurate Performance Measurement Baseline and manage the change control process.
• Supporting collaboration with suppliers to integrate and analyse project performance data in accordance with Supplier Project Controls contractual requirements.
• Supporting scope, cost, risk and schedule integration and alignment.
• Supporting the analysis of performance data, including Earned Value Management, to provide insight and to facilitate delivery decisions.
• Supporting the liaison with Finance to generate relevant prospective financial positions, including Cash Estimate to Complete and Estimate At Complete profiles.
• Supporting effective risk management through the appropriate identification, quantification, treatment and oversight of project risk.
• Supporting Project Managers in the deployment of resource in-line with the resource-loaded schedules.
• Assuring the quality, accuracy, and integrity of your output.
• Working with the Integrated Project Team to communicate and contextualise delivery performance and influence stakeholders.
• Promoting learning from experience and influencing process improvements.

Skills

Project Controls

Planning & Scheduling

Cost Estimation

Cost Control

Risk Management

Performance Reporting

Communication

Stakeholder Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical or management field

Job description

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Project Controls Engineer to lead and support project controls activities within defence portfolios for UK MoD programmes. The role requires Sole UK National status with SC clearance and offers opportunities to shape scope, schedules, and cost control across multi-client projects.

You will contribute to planning, risk management, earned value analysis, and performance reporting while collaborating with finance and suppliers to drive informed delivery decisions.