Project Controls Manager

Poutrix; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis is seeking a Project Controls Manager to lead client-facing control delivery on major infrastructure programmes across the South East. You will work with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver robust planning, cost control, risk management and performance insights throughout the project lifecycle.

You will contribute to mobilisation through delivery, handover and benefits realisation, driving data‑driven decisions and digital project controls across projects and clients.

Qualifications

• Experience in project controls roles across infrastructure, transportation, or buildings.
• Strong understanding of planning, risk, cost, and performance management.
• Experience supporting projects through mobilisation to delivery and handover.
• Ability to collaborate with clients, consultants, contractors and design teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead client-facing project controls delivery on major infrastructure programmes.
• Provide integrated programme controls across planning, risk, cost and performance.
• Champion digital project controls and data-driven decision making.
• Collaborate with Project Management, Cost & Commercial, Design & Engineering, and Digital Intelligence teams.
• Support growth of Arcadis' Project & Programme Controls community.

Skills

Project controls

Planning & scheduling

Risk management

Digital controls

Stakeholder management

Education

Engineering / Project Management degree

APM / Primavera P6 / MSP certifications

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Project

Cost management software

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

As a Project Controls Manager, you'll play a key role in delivering some of the South East's most significant capital investment programmes across infrastructure, transportation and buildings. Working alongside multi-disciplinary teams, you'll help clients deliver complex projects more effectively through robust planning, controls, digital solutions and performance insight.

You'll have the opportunity to work across the full project lifecycle, from business case development and programme mobilisation through to construction, handover and benefits realisation.

Role accountabilities:

• Leading client-facing project controls delivery on major infrastructure and transportation programmes.
• Providing integrated programme controls solutions across planning, risk, cost and performance management.
• Championing digital project controls and data-driven decision making.
• Collaborating with experts across Project Management, Cost & Commercial, Design & Engineering, Advisory and Digital Intelligence.
• Contributing to the growth and development of Arcadis' global Project & Programme Controls community.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Experience in Project Controls roles across Rail Infrastructure, Transportation and/or Buildings projects.
• A strong understanding of planning & scheduling, risk management, cost engineering, scope management and digital controls solutions.
• Experience supporting projects through multiple lifecycle stages, from mobilisation and set-up through to delivery, handover and benefits realisation.
• The ability to work effectively with clients, consultants, contractors and design teams in collaborative environments.
• A degree or equivalent qualification in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying or a related discipline.
• Relevant professional certifications such as APM Planning & Controls, Oracle Primavera P6, MSP and/or Risk Management qualifications.
• A growth mindset, with a passion for continuous learning, innovation and delivering outstanding outcomes for clients.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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