Project Controls Consultant

Arcadis; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis in the United Kingdom is seeking a Project Controls Consultant to lead the planning, integration, and control of complex energy projects across the full lifecycle.

You will design and implement project control systems, oversee data quality in Common Data Environments, and mentor junior colleagues while partnering with client teams and senior stakeholders to deliver insights and value.

Qualifications

• Degree or 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Excel

Power BI

Tableau

Stakeholder communication

Education

Degree or HND in a relevant field

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Project

MS 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 including water, energy, environmental and industrial. We provide valued advice and support to leading clients who supply 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.