Project Controls Consultant

Poutrix; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis is seeking a Project Controls Consultant to lead controls across major energy programmes. You will mentor junior colleagues, apply commercial judgment and shape governance and digital tool usage.

Role requires degree or equivalent, strong IT skills (Excel/Office 365) and experience with Power BI/Tableau for reporting and analytics. You will work with client teams and senior stakeholders to deliver high quality outcomes.

Qualifications

• Degree or HND or equivalent professional experience.
• Proven ability to lead project controls delivery with limited supervision.
• Strong communication skills and client engagement capability.
• Experience in design, engineering or construction environments is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, integration and control of complex energy projects across full lifecycle.
• Review data, schedules and forecasting, ensuring data quality and governance.
• Design and improve project control systems and digital tools.
• Manage information strategies within common data environments.
• Support risk management with identification, assessment and mitigation.
• Oversee cost control, budgeting, forecasting and EVA integration.
• Facilitate workshops to align delivery teams and resolve constraints.
• Provide portfolio insight through reporting and KPI dashboards.
• Champion digital tools and predictive analytics for decision making.

Skills

Project controls

Leadership

Communication

Risk management

Education

Degree or HND or equivalent

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Excel

Office 365

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Resilience is one of Arcadis’ core business lines and operates across several sectors in matching the population with the resources used in our daily lives. Our projects range from nationally significant infrastructure schemes to mass volume utility works. As a Project Controls Consultant, you will take a leading role in shaping and delivering high quality project controls services across major energy programmes. You will provide direction to project teams, mentor junior colleagues, and apply strong technical and commercial judgement.

Role accountabilities:

• Leading the planning, integration and control of complex energy projects across the full lifecycle, applying advanced project controls methodologies.
• Reviewing, assuring and gathering key insights from programme data, resource loaded schedules and overseeing progress measurement and forecasting activities.
• Designing, implementing and improving project control systems, governance processes and digital tools, including standard operating procedures and transformation initiatives.
• Managing project information strategies within Common Data Environments and ensuring strong control of data quality and digital deliverables.
• Supporting risk management activities, including risk identification, assessment, mitigation planning and senior support to QSRA or QCRA modelling.
• Overseeing cost control processes such as budget development, cost forecasting, earned value management and integration of cost, schedule and risk data.
• Facilitating collaborative planning sessions and workshops to align delivery teams and resolve constraints.
• Providing portfolio level insight through integrated reporting, KPI development and dashboard reporting.
• Championing the use of digital tool, predictive analytics and performance dashboards, to inform better decision making.
• Managing change control, ensuring strong documentation, traceability and governance.
• Building and maintaining productive relationships with internal teams, client organisations and senior stakeholders.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree, HND or equivalent professional experience.
• Proven ability to lead project controls delivery with limited supervision and strong professional judgement.
• Strong communication skills with confidence in engaging client teams and facilitating discussions across multiple disciplines.
• Understanding of project or programme management, design, engineering or construction environments. Direct experience is desirable.
• Strong IT skills, particularly with Excel and Office 365. Experience with recognised planning, cost or risk tools is advantageous.
• Experience in dashboard and reporting tools such as Power BI / Tableau

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.