Project Controls Engineer

Turner & Townsend; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Project Controls Engineer in Planning to join our Infrastructure team in the UK. The role supports Senior Planners, develops planning processes, and maintains schedules to enable informed decisions across water and infrastructure projects.

You will collaborate with project managers, deliverables teams and clients, producing forecasts and dashboards while upholding disciplined governance and performance reporting.

Qualifications

• Experience in UK water/utilities or regulated infrastructure projects.
• Knowledge of earned value management, cost control and change control.
• Ability to produce project controls reports, dashboards and schedules.
• Understanding of governance and performance reporting in projects.

Responsibilities

• Review, develop and implement planning processes and systems.
• Maintain schedules and baselines; support monthly reporting and governance.
• Coordinate planning data with project managers and delivery partners.
• Forecast out-turn dates and identify delays or overruns.
• Apply consistent planning controls across projects and programmes.

Skills

Client-facing experience

Schedule & cost reporting

Project controls knowledge

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Excel proficiency

Team collaboration

Risk awareness

Education

Engineering/Construction degree

Tools

Primavera P6

Asta

OPP or equivalent tools

Job description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

At Turner & Townsend our award-winning Controls & Performance team are focused on driving innovation, enhancing our client’s integrated controls capability, improving performance, and delivering better programme outcomes. We have a growing national team of over 650 Controls & Performance professionals. The breadth and scale of our team provide great opportunities to reach back and draw upon a vast pool of experience to enhance your knowledge and career. Our strong capability, discipline communities and varied client base, provides a great opportunity to drive your career, supported by our career pathways.

We have exciting opportunities for Project Controls Engineer in Planning to join our expanding Infrastructure team, who are undertaking a range of Controls & Performance duties on high-profile Infrastructure major projects and programmes. Due to continued growth across the UK water, wastewater and infrastructure sectors, we are seeking experienced professionals to contribute to planning and scheduling whilst supporting the wider planning team. Additionally, this role will provide the opportunity to innovate, collaborate and learn from our wider Controls and Performance community.

As a Project Controls Engineer, you will support the Senior Planners and Planning Lead in reviewing, developing and implementing processes, procedures and systems for planning to control project timelines, as well as maintaining schedules. You will help project teams manage activities against approved baselines and provide accurate, timely planning information to support informed decisions. Working collaboratively with Project Managers, the wider project controls team, clients and delivery partners, you will coordinate planning data, monitor performance and support monthly reporting and governance. You will contribute to reliable forecasts of out-turn dates, identify potential delays and overruns and support appropriate corrective action. You will also help teams apply consistent planning controls across projects and programmes.

Project Controls Engineers at Turner & Townsend:

Project Controls Engineers at Turner & Townsend work on a broad range of projects and programmes in the utilities sector, including clean and wastewater treatment facilities, Major Projects, Strategic Resource Options, and many more. We are looking for individuals with the following skills, experience and attributes:

• Demonstrable experience within the infrastructure, engineering, or construction industry, with a proven track record of delivering complex projects and programmes in a client-facing environment
• Experience using Primavera P6, or similar planning software, to support the development, maintenance and updating of project schedules
• Experience collating schedule, cost and progress information from project teams to support reporting, forecasting and performance monitoring
• An understanding of project controls principles, governance requirements and performance reporting, with the ability to identify trends, risks and issues and highlight findings to the project team
• Comfortable working in a regulated environment, managing competing priorities and maintaining high standards of accuracy
• Clear communication skills and the ability to work with project managers, delivery teams, contractors and client representatives
• Appreciation of cost-schedule-risk alignment and the benefits it provides for decision-making
• Experience supporting the preparation of project controls reports, dashboards and schedule information to inform project decision-making
• Good analytical skills and proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Ability to take responsibility of assigned tasks, use initiative and manage competing priorities to meet deadlines
• Collaborative approach with a commitment to teamworking, knowledge sharing and maintaining consistent standards across the project controls function
• An understanding of, or experience supporting, the application of project controls processes, procedures and best practice across projects and programmes
• Demonstrable experience in the delivery of major programmes, managing complex stakeholder environments, multidisciplinary teams, significant budgets, and strategic project objectives
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of operating within a consultancy environment
• Client Base - Peterborough and/or client site 3 -5 days a week
• Home office in a Turner & Townsend location – London, Birmingham, Nottingham
• Have a full driving licence, access to a vehicle
• Full-time

Qualifications

• Experience within the UK water sector, utilities or other regulated infrastructure environments, including delivery within an AMP framework
• Knowledge of quality management and process improvement practices within construction or infrastructure delivery
• Understanding of the design and delivery requirements of technically complex infrastructure, engineering or construction projects
• Proven track record of operating in major project environments, including high-value water projects or projects of a similar scale and complexity, to enable achievement of project goals and objectives
• Knowledge of earned value management, risk management, cost control, change control and integrated project controls methodologies

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering, Construction, Quantity Surveying, Cost Management, Project Management or a related discipline is desirable; equivalent relevant professional experience is also welcomed
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and relevant planning and project controls software, with experience using Primavera P6, Asta, OPP or equivalent tools
• Knowledge and understanding of NEC contracts, including the administration, management and successful delivery of projects under NEC frameworks, with an ability to proactively manage risk, programme, compensation events and stakeholder relationships
• Membership or working towards membership of, a relevant professional institution such as APM, CaSA, or equivalent

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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