Project Controls Engineer – Defence

Turner-; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in the United Kingdom is seeking a Project Controls Engineer to join a defence-focused portfolio. You will work within a cross-disciplinary team to define scope, establish WBS, and support performance baselines and change control.

The role requires collaboration with suppliers and stakeholders to ensure accurate data and robust delivery insights. With experience in planning, cost control, and risk management, you will contribute to complex commissions while operating under UK

Qualifications

• Experience delivering projects.
• Experience across one or more Project Controls disciplines.
• Proficient in Planning, Scheduling, Cost Estimation, Cost Control or Risk Management.
• Undergraduate degree in a relevant field and membership of a professional body.
• Proactive, good communicator with ability to influence outcomes.
• Willingness to work within regulated Defence environments.
• Competent in relevant software/tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead specific workstreams within a cross-discipline Project Controls team.
• Support scope definition and Work Breakdown Structure establishment.
• Maintain robust Performance Measurement Baseline and change control.
• Collaborate with suppliers to align project performance data.
• Assist with risk management and resource loading.
• Communicate delivery performance to stakeholders and drive improvements.

Skills

Project Controls

Planning & Scheduling

Cost Estimation

Cost Control

Risk Management

Performance Reporting

Stakeholder Influence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Management

Job description

At Turner & Townsend, we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realise their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. Every day, we help our clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects in 64 countries using our global team of over 23,000 people.

Within the UK, Turner & Townsend has a wide range of key clients across a broad spectrum of sectors, including Health, Local Authorities, Higher Education, Highways, Utilities, Rail, and Defence. Our diverse portfolio of clients provides our team members with unique and rewarding opportunities to gain experience across a broad range of major programmes and projects.

We play a crucial role in supporting the defence of the United Kingdom as a key provider of project and programme management services to the Ministry of Defence and strategic Defence suppliers.

Due to growing demand for our services, we are actively looking to expand the team with talented individuals who wish to support our Defence client portfolio and further their career by working on a range of complex and challenging commissions.

We are seeking like-minded passionate people to join our organisation who have a positive outlook, are seeking development opportunities, have a strong foundation of technical understanding and experience within the Defence or other highly regulated industries.

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.

Qualifications

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

Additional Information

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).

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, such as to current processes through networks such as our maternity steering groups.

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.

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