Project Controls Director

SYSTRA; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

SYSTRA is seeking a Project Controls Director to enhance its engineering team in London. This role is vital for the management of project controls across significant infrastructure projects, requiring strong leadership and expertise in planning, scheduling, and risk management. The director will collaborate with clients and lead a dynamic team to ensure project success and delivery.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience managing programmes within major infrastructure projects.
• Broad Project Controls expertise across Planning, Scheduling, Cost, and Risk Management.
• Demonstrable experience in team management.

Responsibilities

• Lead Project Controls across multiple major infrastructure projects.
• Produce compliant programmes and project performance data.
• Identify project risks and manage deviations effectively.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Team management

Tools

Primavera

Microsoft Office

Job description

Around the world, SYSTRA’s specialists plan, design, integrate, test, commission, project manage and deliver mass transit and mobility solutions that are relied on by more than 50 million people every day.

For more than 60 years, the Group has been committed to helping cities and regions contribute to their development by creating, improving and modernising their transport infrastructure with sustainability, accessibility and innovation at the heart of our designs. With over 10,300 colleagues globally and around 1000 in the UK & Ireland we are growing significantly and seeking out the very best talent to join the SYSTRA signature team and be part of leading the way in infrastructure design.

Context

We currently have an opportunity for a Project Controls Director to join our engineering team.

This position within our team will suit a committed and ambitious Project Controls Director who can demonstrate strong leadership and interpersonal skills combined with commercial awareness and the ability to play their part in growing a dynamic high-performance team. With a focus on the design of major infrastructure projects primarily across the North of the UK, it will include interaction around the UK and overseas, the post-holder will be part of a growing team of UK management staff delivering projects for a diverse portfolio of UK clients.

The Project Controls Director will be accountable for the delivery of the programme controls across a portfolio of projects.

Missions/Main Duties

Working in collaboration with our designers and contract partners, the Project Controls Director will be involved in a variety of tasks such as:

• Building relationships with clients.
• Represent Project Controls, attend and lead client progress meetings.
• Producing compliant programmes that are logically robust, cost and resource loaded and covers the full scope of work across all stages of the project.
• Provision of project performance data, project schedules and reports in a concise and timely manner
• Ensure all planning processes and procedures are fully implemented on the projects
• Identify project risks, deviations and slippages.
• Understand the workload, prioritising and allocating work.
• Check programme achievements and provide constructive feedback, leadership and management.
• Analyse current and future workloads to ensure Planning commitments can be achieved
• Understanding various forms of contract
• Conduct Risk workshops and undertake Schedule Risk analysis, present results
• Ensure Earned Value Management processes are followed data analysis and trend analysis.
• Provide regular supervision to members of the Project Controls team as required

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Profile/Skills

Experience

• Experienced based skills in managing programmes within major infrastructure projects
• Broad Project Controls experience, with an understanding of core disciplines Planning & Scheduling, Cost Management & Risk Management
• Understanding of multi-disciplinary co-ordination across major infrastructure projects and global design teams.
• Development of innovative programming and reporting solutions
• Demonstrable team management experience

Skills

• The ability to lead and develop a Project Controls team
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Must be able to demonstrate the ability to produce Programmes and associated reports.
• Working knowledge of Primavera and associated Risk Analysis tools
• Working knowledge of all PC based Windows environments and Microsoft Office suite