Project Controls Manager

Arcadis; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in sustainable design and engineering is expanding its Rail Consultancy team in London. The role involves managing project controls, ensuring compliance, and engaging with stakeholders on iconic projects. Candidates should possess relevant experience in the rail sector and strong project management skills.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in Rail sector environment.
• Management of small to medium-sized projects.
• Experience in major projects and programmes.

Responsibilities

• Operationally manage project controls work to deliver defined objectives.
• Analyze and review a range of data to provide recommendations.
• Interact effectively across the organization to ensure project controls meet expectations.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical skills

Commercial acumen

Collaboration

Education

Relevant professional qualification

Chartered status

Job description

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

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 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.

Our Rail Consultancy team is growing, and you'll be working on some of the biggest, most iconic projects imaginable. It's challenging, rewarding, and will take your career to the next level.

To succeed in this role, you'll need energy, agility, and an eye for detail, as well as the ability to deliver for multiple clients every day. Join us and you'll find a people-first environment where you're supported every step of the way and encouraged to build the career that's right for you.

• Operationally manage project or programme controls work to deliver defined objectives.
• You will be responsible for delivering your scope of work in line with budgetary, compliance, regulatory, and process controls, and will have deep technical knowledge and broad business experience.
• Ability to select systems and tools appropriate for the work, develop and implement project-specific processes and procedures.
• Develop and grow the service capability, contribute to delivery of client account plans.
• Oversee an agreed scope of work including the workload of a team or contractors; ensuring allocated work is completed/resources are fully utilized in order to deliver against an agreed programme of work.
• Work within established systems to independently produce schedules and cost plans and track and manage budgets, highlighting variances to produce management information. Deliver a number of small to medium scale project or programme controls work, ensuring appropriate use of resources and budgets to deliver the required scope of work within set deadlines.
• Present any project risks or issues to senior managers to ensure the project is not adversely impacted, and ensure the delivery of project controls is compliant with standards.
• Provide advice to colleagues surrounding behaviors, to ensure adherence to internal and external compliance processes.
• Analyze and review a range of data to identify key existing and emerging themes and trends. Use own and others' analysis to provide recommendations that support project decision-making.
• Use own knowledge and experience of industry best practice to review and analyze project controls processes and policies, providing insightful recommendations to improve processes and systems.
• Interact effectively and proactively across the organization, seeking to develop ways to support collaboration and ensure project/programme controls can be delivered to meet internal customer expectations.
• Advise senior management on issues relating to project controls, providing subject matter advice in order to support successful delivery in line with project objectives and strategies.
• Liaise and collaborate with clients and stakeholders, in order to ensure all parties are informed and aware of project progress and expectations.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Previous experience in Rail sector environment
• Relevant business experience across multiple sectors
• Management of small to medium-sized projects and experience in major projects and programmes
• Commercial acumen and the ability to manage relationships with external stakeholders
• Expertise in service capability
• Knowledge of own community management and an understanding of service and business lines
• Experience in managing business relationships at management level
• Relevant professional qualification or chartered status