Project Controls Manager

Turner & Townsend Limited; Weybridge; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services company is seeking a Project Controls Manager to lead a multi-functional team on major construction projects in the UK. This role involves embedding robust project controls, managing risks, and ensuring successful project outcomes. Ideal candidates should have proven experience in project/programme controls, excellent communication skills, and the ability to travel to client sites as required.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Inclusive company culture

Qualifications

• Proven experience in delivering controls in a major project/programme environment.
• Experience in managing a multi-functional controls team.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills required.
• Flexible regarding travel to client sites as required.

Responsibilities

• Embed a robust breakdown structure, integrating data from each of the controls functions.
• Manage the risk management process, including qualitative and quantitative assessments.
• Control the master program applying quality checks to updates from the client.
• Lead the change management process and workflow.

Skills

Project management

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Time management

Communication skills

Tools

Primavera (P6)

Power BI

Microsoft Office

Job description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Turner & Townsend currently have a number of exciting opportunities for Project Controls Managers to support major construction projects in the UK to lead a multi-functional Project Controls team, working collaboratively with the client’s Project Manager and supply chain to provide a realistic baseline and embed effective controls to monitor progress, manage issues and mitigate slippage to drive delivery and enable successful project outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Embed a robust breakdown structure, integrating the data from each of the controls functions.
• Coordinate and lead estimating sessions to reach an agreed, market tested cost baseline with a focus on value for money and budget realism.
• Coordinate and lead planning sessions and workshops to compile the master project/programme schedule baseline, ensuring an achievable duration.
• Understand procurement principles, collating lead times within the schedule to communicate the prioritisation of ordering materials and equipment to meet scheduled install dates.
• Manage the risk management process, including being responsible for qualitative and quantitative assessments to support cost and schedule predictability.
• Stakeholder management ensuring all key stakeholders sign off the baseline and have visibility of regular progress updates.
• Embed a robust update process, ensuring schedule, interfaces, cost, risk and changes are managed effectively.
• Guide and influence the principal contractor and client, working with them to drive delivery and achieve schedule and cash flow KPI’s.
• Control costs with knowledge of conceptual estimating, funding stage gates, basic contingency principals, procurement principles.
• Control the master program applying quality checks to updates from the client and principal contractor.
• Lead the change management process and workflow, providing a platform for adding/tracking/monitoring/approving change in a timely fashion.
• Identify trends and root causes of deviations against the baseline using lead and lag indicators, effectively reporting any remedial actions in order to drive best value for the client.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in delivering controls in a major project/programme environment
• Experience in managing a multi-functional controls team
• Proficiency with controls/general software applications such as Primavera (P6), Power BI, Microsoft Office Applications
• Knowledge of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and start-up work processes
• Knowledge of engineering and construction management
• Experience of leading collaborative workshops
• Reliable with the ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Strong time management skills, quick thinking and ability to meet project deadlines as necessary
• Highly motivated and driven with a passion for delivering to your clients and have the ability to work independently
• Strong verbal and written communication skills required
• Flexible with regards to travel, even with increased levels of remote working, we still need people who are willing to travel to client sites as required

Additional Information

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. 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.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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