Project Controls Lead (Cost) - Leiston

ZipRecruiter; Leiston; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Project Controls Lead to join their dynamic team in Leiston. In this pivotal role, you will lead a team of planning and cost engineers, ensuring the effective management of project costs and schedules. Your expertise will drive the successful delivery of critical projects within the energy sector, enhancing operational efficiency and compliance with industry standards. This role offers the chance to work closely with clients and stakeholders, contributing to innovative solutions that impact the UK's energy landscape. If you are a results-oriented leader with a passion for project management, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Minimum HNC required, typically degree qualified in a numerate discipline.
• Expertise in cost engineering and estimating with strong analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of planning and cost engineers ensuring standards are met.
• Oversee production of cost and resource loaded plans for projects.
• Facilitate project change control and risk management processes.

Skills

Cost Engineering

Cost Estimating

Project Controls Knowledge

Analytical Skills

Team Leadership

Risk Management

Change Management

Earned Value Concepts

Education

HNC Minimum

Degree in Numerate Discipline

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Job Description

Project Controls Lead (Cost) - Leiston

As Project Controls Lead, you will be a fundamental part of our Project Controls team responsible for leading a team of planning and cost engineers, providing cost management, and planning support to the EDF Energy work portfolio. You will be embedded into the client team working alongside other Costain colleagues, our client and their suppliers. Together with your team, you will ensure the planning, estimating, monitoring and control of a specified project is carried out professionally and in compliance with all EDF requirements.

Note: Potential candidates for this role must be able to obtain and retain CTC (Counter Terrorist Check) level security clearance to be considered for this position. (Minimum 3 years residence in UK).

Responsibilities

1. Lead a Project Control Team of Planning and Cost Engineers to ensure consistency, coherence and adherence to standards.
2. Oversee the production and control of baselined, fully logic linked, cost and resource loaded plans, with appropriate milestones, for all work utilising work breakdown structures and techniques.
3. Support the estimating process to ensure a control estimate is in place for cost monitoring purposes.
4. Facilitate and maintain the Project change control and risk management processes, analysing trends and providing feedback on areas of risk and opportunities.
5. Support Managers in the production of monthly reports through the provision of intelligent information and analysis.
6. Proactively contribute to the ongoing development of Project Control processes and tools to meet the ongoing requirements of the EDF Energy portfolio, highlight shortfalls in Project Controls during normal operation and put in place action plans to remedy.
7. Conduct forward resource planning and perform an active role in the recruitment process including interviews.
8. Continually develop the output of the Project Controls function to enhance the value delivered.

Qualifications

Essential:

1. HNC Minimum. Typically Degree qualified or equivalent in an appropriate numerate discipline.
2. Previous Line Management experience and ability to lead Cost team.
3. Expert cost engineering and cost estimating knowledge and experience.
4. Sound all round project controls knowledge is essential of planning, risk and change management.
5. Results focused tempered with a team centred approach.
6. Ability to analyse data to recognise emerging trends and suggest remedial action as appropriate.
7. Proficient in the application of Earned Value concepts and tools.
8. High level of analytical and numerate skills and well versed in the preparation of reports and information using packages such as SAP, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
9. Able and willing to apply analysis skills to take responsibility, make decisions and meet challenges within the limits of their own capabilities and responsibilities.

Desirable:

1. Self-motivated with good interpersonal skills working in a team environment.
2. Relevant experience in Project Controls and/or Project Delivery, preferably in a highly regulated environment.

About Us

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements.

We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

About the Team

Costain helps to improve people's lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent needs across the UK's energy, water and transportation infrastructures. Costain provides a project controls and commercial managed service to portfolios and programmes of work across EDF Energy's eight UK nuclear power stations. As part of this work, Costain will develop people capability in core project control skills and provide specialist support to EDF's Central Technical Organisation to improve project performance and deliver cost efficiencies.

We are supporting EDF in 2 main areas:

1. To successfully deliver projects that maximise the lifespan of their generating stations.
2. To successfully deliver a Defueling & Decommissioning programme, a first of a kind endeavour for the UK.