Head of Project Controls

Westinghouse Electric Company; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Peer-to-peer recognition program

Life insurance

Pension plan

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Westinghouse Electric Company is seeking a Head of Project Controls to lead the development and implementation of project controls across its Environmental Services UK division. This role requires a minimum of 10 years of experience in project delivery and control. Strong stakeholder management and data analysis skills are essential.

The successful candidate will collaborate closely with senior leaders to ensure compliance and enhance program success while working at the Westlakes location.

Attractive remuneration and benefits include life insurance, a pension plan, and learning opportunities.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10+ years of project delivery and control experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management across different levels of organization.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage implementation of project controls and compliance.
• Coordinate with senior leaders for program delivery.
• Analyse project performance and present insights.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Communication skills

Job description

Westlakes, Westinghouse Electric Company

Welcome to the future of nuclear energy, where Westinghouse Electric Company is leading the field with expertise and innovation to shape the power of tomorrow.

At Westinghouse, innovation is in our DNA. We are creative. We think differently. We reimagine the possible across the nuclear industry every day.

About the Role

As a Head of Project Controls you will lead the development and implementation of program and project controls across Westinghouse Environmental Services UK, by supporting and driving best practices. You will be responsible for ensuring compliance with standards and enhancing overall program success, collaborating with key stakeholders and managing a team of project professionals to ensure effective delivery of scope, schedule, cost, risk, and dependencies. Working closely with senior leaders, the role will contribute to the efficient establishment and delivery of all programmes across Westinghouse Environmental Services UK.

You will report to the Senior Programme Manager and be located at Westlakes.

Key Responsibilities

• Provision of resources to support bids and ensuring schedules and risk registers developed at bid phase comply with our standards and expectations.
• Advise and drive implementation of robust project controls and processes across WES UK.
• Lead the provision of risk management and assessment services to project delivery teams ensuring risk is built into project programmes.
• Lead planning improvements ensuring all project plans are robust and cost- and resource-loaded.
• Review and optimise project controls management procedures and templates.
• Develop, implement and maintain data‑driven programme reporting at portfolio, programme and project level.
• Support the forecasting of future potential savings ('hard benefits') and efficiencies based on the delivery/contract baseline programmes – work with the project team to ensure that delivery schedules reflect the opportunities to exploit savings in the delivery of future work.
• Implement effective change control and contract management processes to ensure compliance and flexibility.
• Establish robust control processes to track progress, risks, dependencies, milestones and quality, utilising automated software for real‑time dashboards and data analytics.
• Manage project databases and tracking tools, promoting automation to enhance reporting accuracy and efficiency. Ensure that schedules are compiled and submitted to the required management standards and that monthly reporting is undertaken in compliance with the contract (at project and programme levels).
• Create professional presentations and dashboards to communicate project status to stakeholders.
• Maintain contact with the wider Project Controls professional bodies, keeping abreast of the latest initiatives and technology.
• Lead on development and maintenance of live project master list.
• Develop and implement tools for trending and recording project intelligence, for continuous learning to improve forecast accuracy.
• Set standards, through liaison with business functions, to ensure compliance with existing policies and practices and meet expectations of the stakeholders – accept and promote potential challenges with the intention of striving for improvement.
• Collaborate with the Quality Manager to establish quality assurance processes for seamless project handover to operations.
• Manage self-audits and quality programmes, ensuring alignment to quality standards and processes.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 or more years of applicable leading project delivery and project control experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management with colleagues across different levels of the organisation and across trades.
• Analyse data and present valuable indicators of project health performance.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• The project performance status using progress reports, business scorecards, programme reporting.
• Facilitate meetings to maintain progress and achieve the agreed outcome.
• Organise and present data in a clear meaningful way.
• Support project delivery by understanding the data presented and possessing the ability to ask the right questions.
• Apply empathy and understanding when required.

Benefits

• Attractive remuneration
• Great benefits for your convenience and safety:
  • Peer‑to‑peer recognition program.
  • Life insurance
  • Pension plan
  • Employee Assistance Program: confidential counselling and resources for employees, eligible dependants and household members
• Learning and development opportunities.
• We encourage our employees to participate in community service events and other team‑building activities to strengthen their bonds and inspire each other.

Westinghouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.