Project Controls Engineer - Defence

Turnertownsend; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Project Controls Engineer in the UK to lead cross-disciplinary workstreams and help shape scope, decomposition and the development of a robust performance baseline. You will drive change control and analyse performance data to guide delivery decisions.

The role requires experience in planning, cost, risk, and schedule integration, including Earned Value management, with a proactive, communicative approach. Sole UK National eligible for MoD SC clearance is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering projects.
• Experience in one or more project controls disciplines (planning/scheduling, cost, risk, performance reporting).
• Proactive, curious, can-do attitude in uncertain environments.
• Good communication and ability to influence outcomes.
• Undergraduate degree in a relevant field; professional body membership preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead scope definition and decomposition to enable WBS establishment.
• Support development of Performance Measurement Baseline and change control process.
• Collaborate with suppliers to integrate and analyse project performance data.
• Support scope, cost, risk and schedule integration and alignment.
• Analyse performance data including Earned Value to inform delivery decisions.
• Liaise with Finance to generate prospective financial positions (e.g., EAC).
• Support risk management through identification, quantification and oversight of risks.
• Support deployment of resources aligned with resource-loaded schedules.
• Ensure output quality, accuracy and integrity.
• Communicate delivery performance to stakeholders and promote learning.

Skills

Planning & Scheduling

Cost Estimation

Cost Control

Risk Management

Performance Reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical or management field

Membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. APM, PMI)

Tools

Earned Value Management

Job description

Important: Before applying, due to the sensitive nature of these projects, you must be a Sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain UK MoD Security Clearance (SC).

As a Project Controls Engineer, you will have experience of:

• Working within and leading on specific workstreams within a cross-discipline Project Controls team.
• Contributing to project the scope definition through the use of exclusions, assumptions, interfaces, and dependencies, and coordinating the scope's decomposition to enable the establishment of a Work Breakdown Structure.
• Working with the Integrated Project Team to support the establishment a robust, accurate Performance Measurement Baseline and manage the change control process.
• Supporting collaboration with suppliers to integrate and analyse project performance data in accordance with Supplier Project Controls contractual requirements.
• Supporting scope, cost, risk and schedule integration and alignment.
• Supporting the analysis of performance data, including Earned Value Management, to provide insight and to facilitate delivery decisions.
• Supporting the liaison with Finance to generate relevant prospective financial positions, including Cash Estimate to Complete and Estimate At Complete profiles.
• Supporting effective risk management through the appropriate identification, quantification, treatment and oversight of project risk.
• Supporting Project Managers in the deployment of resource in-line with the resource-loaded schedules.
• Assuring the quality, accuracy, and integrity of your output.
• Working with the Integrated Project Team to communicate and contextualise delivery performance and influence stakeholders.
• Promoting learning from experience and influencing process improvements.

As a Project Controls Engineer, you will:

• Have experience of delivering projects.
• Have Project Controls experience across a one or more stages within the Project lifecycle.
• Have experience in the application of one or more Project Controls disciplines, including Planning and Scheduling, Cost Estimation, Cost Control, Risk Management or Performance Reporting and their associated software / tools.
• Have a basic understanding of the way in which the Integrated Project Controls disciplines operate.
• Hold a proactive, curious and 'can-do' attitude, as well as being an individual who is comfortable in uncertain and unclear project environments.
• Be a good communicator with ability to influence outcomes.
• Have a passion to build a community and support network beyond your delivery role.
• Have an undergraduate degree in a relevant technical or management field or suitable equivalent qualifications and experience.
• Hold or are working towards holding membership of a relevant professional body e.g. Association for Project Management, Project Management Institute.
• Be competent in using the software needed to perform the role.
• Have a desire to work within various sectors and with a range of clients.

Security Clearance

Important: Before applying, due to the sensitive nature of these projects, you must be a Sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain UK MoD Security Clearance (SC).

Many of the clients and projects we support are subject to MoD security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

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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 and working parents.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and have active networks who are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community. Our "One Employee Network (OEN)" is a unified umbrella, developed to influence, champion and support Turner & Townsend's ambition to become a more diverse, equitable and inclusive organization. As well as advocating for employees who identify with specific groups and communities, our networks such as but not limited to DE&I, Unity, Womens Network, Wellbeing, Military, Parents and Carers enhance and share best practice and encourage dialogue across our business.

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