Project Controls Lead (Planning)

Costain Group PLC; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Project Controls Lead to spearhead a dynamic team of planning and cost engineers. This pivotal role involves ensuring that all projects are meticulously planned, monitored, and controlled in alignment with EDF Energy's stringent requirements. You will play a key role in enhancing project performance, managing risks, and driving continuous improvement in project controls. If you're passionate about delivering excellence in project management and thrive in a collaborative environment, this opportunity offers the chance to make a significant impact in a vital sector of the UK’s infrastructure landscape.

Qualifications

• HNC minimum, typically degree qualified or equivalent preferred.
• Previous line management experience required.
• Proficient in Earned Value concepts and tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead a Project Control Team ensuring adherence to standards.
• Oversee production of cost and resource loaded plans.
• Facilitate project change control and risk management processes.

Skills

Project Management

Cost Management

Data Analysis

Earned Value Management

Team Leadership

Education

HNC or Degree in Numerate Discipline

Tools

SAP

Excel

PowerPoint

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Job Description

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.

Please 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

• Lead a Project Control Team of Planning and Cost Engineers to ensure consistency, coherence and adherence to standards
• 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
• Support the estimating process to ensure a control estimate is in place for cost monitoring purposes
• Facilitate and maintain the Project change control and risk management processes, analysing trends and providing feedback on areas of risk and opportunities.
• Supporting Managers in the production of monthly reports through the provision of intelligent information and analysis
• Proactively contribute to the ongoing development of Project Control processes and tools to meet the ongoing requirements of the EDF Energy Generation portfolio, highlight shortfalls in Project Controls during normal operation and put in place action plans to remedy
• Conduct forward resource planning and perform an active role in the recruitment process including interviews
• Continually develop the output of the Project Controls function to enhance the value delivered
  
  

Essential

QUALIFICATIONS

• HNC Minimum. Typically Degree qualified or equivalent preferred in an appropriate numerate discipline
• Previous Line Management experience
• Results focused tempered with a team centred approach
• Ability to analyse data to recognise emerging trends and suggest remedial action as appropriate
• Proficient in the application of Earned Value concepts and tools
• 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
• 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

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

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 national 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.

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

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About The Team

Costain helps to improve people’s lives by deploying technology-based engineering solutions to meet urgent national needs across the UK’s energy, water and transportation infrastructures.

Skills

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 EDFs Central Technical Organisation to improve project performance and deliver cost efficiencies. We are supporting EDF in 2 main areas:

• to successfully deliver projects that maximise the lifespan of their generating stations
• to successfully deliver a Defueling & Decommissioning programme, a first of a kind
  
  

endeavour for the UK.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management and Information Technology

• Industries

  Civil Engineering

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