Director of Project Controls

Amentum; Aston-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading firm in Energy & Environment is seeking a Director of Project Controls in Aston-on-Trent. This role involves designing and implementing a standardised project controls framework to ensure accuracy in cost, schedule, and risk management. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in large-scale project delivery, strong stakeholder engagement abilities, and proficiency in integrated project controls systems. In addition, the position offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits including medical coverage and family-friendly policies.

Benefits

Free medical cover

Enhanced parental leave

Professional development reimbursement

Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering project controls on multi-billion-dollar EPC projects.
• Proven ability to develop project controls frameworks across businesses.
• Deep proficiency in cost, schedule, risk, EVM, and forecasting.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the Project Controls Strategy for Energy & Environment.
• Lead the creation of a standardised approach for project controls.
• Ensure accuracy and quality of project performance data.

Skills

Project controls delivery

Risk management

Stakeholder engagement

Cost management

Schedule management

Education

Professional accreditation (ACostE, AACE, APM, PMI or equivalent)

Tools

CostPoint

OnPoint

Workday

Job description

The Director of Project Controls is responsible for designing, leading, and embedding a best-in‑class project controls function across Amentum's Energy & Environment International (E&E-I) business. Reporting to the Vice President for Finance, with a dotted line to the Vice President for Delivery Excellence & Assurance, the Director ensures cost, schedule, and risk performance is governed with accuracy, discipline, and transparency across the entire portfolio. A core mandate of this role is to develop and implement a standardised, scalable framework that creates the "Amentum Way" of Project Controls that is used consistently across the business line. This framework must be recognised as the single, authoritative approach for cost, schedule, risk and performance management across E&E-I. It must be flexible enough to apply proportionately to smaller, low‑risk consultancy tasks and service orders, while equally being robust enough to govern multi‑billion‑dollar EPC programmes. It must also be designed so that it can integrate seamlessly with client requirements, contractual obligations and industry standards, ensuring Amentum remains both competitive and compliant while maintaining a high standard of delivery discipline.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership
  • Define and deliver the Project Controls Strategy for E&E-I, fully aligned with finance, digital delivery, and governance frameworks.
  • Lead the creation of The Amentum Way of Project Controls, ensuring it provides a consistent, repeatable, best‑practice approach for project controls across all divisions.
  • Ensure the framework is scalable, proportionate and adaptable across the full spectrum of project sizes and complexities.
  • Ensure the approach is flexible enough to align with client systems, reporting needs, and contractual requirements, without compromising Amentum standards.
• Functional Oversight
  • Provide executive oversight for cost management, schedule control, risk management, EVM, estimating, and performance forecasting across all projects.
  • Ensure all projects adopt the core elements of The Amentum Way of Project Controls, with proportional governance based on project categorisation and risk.
  • Guarantee the accuracy, quality and timeliness of all project performance data used for decision‑making and corporate reporting.
• Systems, Tools & Digital Integration
  • Lead the deployment of best‑in‑class digital project controls tools, ensuring seamless integration with CostPoint, OnPoint, Workday, and other core systems.
  • Ensure the framework is digitised and supported by automated workflows and dashboards that scale from small projects to major programmes and align with the E&E-I project & divisional reporting.
  • Drive advancements in 4D/5D planning, integrated cost/schedule risk analysis, and predictive forecasting.
• Capability & Community Leadership
  • Build, lead, and mentor the Project Controls Community of Practice, ensuring all practitioners meet SQEP expectations.
  • Develop the competency framework and career progression pathways for project controls professionals.
  • Promote a cohesive culture of professionalism, continuous learning, and excellence across all business units.
• Performance & Improvement
  • Lead a structured continuous improvement programme to enhance maturity, quality, and efficiency of project controls.
  • Ensure lessons learned, audit findings, and assurance outcomes drive improvement in tools, processes, and capability.
  • Ensure The Amentum Way of Project Controls remains modern, relevant, and scalable as the business evolves.
• Leadership Attributes
  • Technical authority with credibility to influence complex, multi‑disciplinary programmes.
  • Data‑driven and commercially aware, ensuring performance information is high quality and decision‑ready.
  • Collaborative, integrating project controls with finance, governance, delivery excellence, and assurance.
  • Innovation‑minded, ensuring The Amentum Way of Project Controls evolves with digital tools and market expectations.
  • People‑focused leader, building capability, pride, and professionalism across the project controls community.
• Security and Clearance Requirements
  • Must be a UK citizen (dual nationality considered on a case‑by‑case basis subject to clearance requirements).
  • Must be able to obtain and hold at least a SC level security clearance.
  • Will be required to pass character, financial, and background checks in line with Amentum corporate and government standards.

Equitable Outlook and Values

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion, and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business, and we genuinely believe that we all succeed by supporting one another through our culture of caring. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we are more connected, and if we are diverse, we're more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you're pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity. We partner with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent.

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Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering project controls or major project delivery on multi‑billion‑dollar EPC projects within energy, defence, infrastructure or major construction.
• Proven ability to develop, implement, or operate standardised, cross‑business project controls frameworks.
• Deep proficiency in cost, schedule, risk, EVM, forecasting, and integrated project controls systems.
• Experience designing scalable project controls methods that flex from small projects to mega‑programmes.
• Demonstrated success integrating project controls systems with finance/ERP environments.
• Strong senior stakeholder engagement and influence.
• Professional accreditation (ACostE, AACE, APM, PMI or equivalent).
• Experience in nuclear defence, nuclear power, environmental remediation, or major government programmes.
• Experience with NEC3/4, FIDIC, or government contracting frameworks in the UK.

Compensation and Benefits

£49,109 per year – estimated.

We inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. We offer an exciting array of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities. People are our greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. In addition to the benefits you'd expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family‑friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively programme which incorporates matched‑funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.