Project Controls Manager - Energy

Turner Townsend; Middlesbrough; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading project management firm is seeking a Project Controls Manager to lead cross-discipline teams delivering project controls services to nuclear clients. Responsibilities include defining performance management strategies and ensuring project delivery within time and cost targets. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in project planning, cost control, and risk management. This role requires presence in the client office in Teesside for 3 days a week.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in project controls and management.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to drive team performance.
• Excellent knowledge of NEC or FIDIC contract processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-discipline teams to deliver robust project controls services.
• Define and implement project controls approaches to enhance client value.
• Establish a strong performance measurement baseline and manage change controls.

Skills

Project controls delivery

Team leadership

Governance processes

Performance measurement

Client interaction

Tools

Primavera P6

Power Bi

Excel

Job description

A Project Controls Manager (PCM) will lead cross-discipline teams of project controls professionals to deliver effective, consistent, assured and value adding project controls services to our nuclear client across diverse and complex programmes. In leading the team, they will be responsible for defining and delivering performance management cadences on complex projects/programmes along with all associated processes & reports. They are accountable for maintaining robust planning and project controls deliverables that provide our clients with accurate data to drive management decisions. They will play a key role in ensuring that client objectives are met and that projects are delivered to time and cost targets and the appropriate quality standards., As PCM, you have the passion to provide integrated planning and project controls services as required by our clients, which may include:

• Leading cross-discipline teams of project controls professionals to drive delivery of robust and effective project controls services and continuous improvement in project controls processes.
• Create efficiency and increasing benefits to our nuclear client by defining and implementing project controls approaches across the project, programme and portfolio levels to allow effective decision making at all levels.
• Defining and implementing effective governance and assurance processes around project controls products.
• Adherence to NEC or FIDIC contract processes for management of project controls data and deliverables.
• Working with our client to develop relevant breakdown structures, support scope definitions and in turn project controls products with the professionals and senior professionals in their team.
• Defining scaled, tailored and integrated approaches for project controls and documenting these (for example in a Project Control System Definition).
• Defining the scope through the identification and management of exclusions, assumptions, interfaces, and dependencies, and coordinate the scope's decomposition.
• Working with the Integrated Project Team to establish a robust, accurate Performance Measurement Baseline and manage the change control process.
• Working with Project and Commercial Management to establish the Supplier Project Controls contract requirements, and then collaborating with suppliers to integrate and analyse their performance data.
• Ensuring scope, cost, risk and schedule integration and alignment, and analyse performance data to provide delivery insight and facilitate delivery decisions.
• Training and coaching client team and less experienced project team members on performance and reporting management processes and practices.
• Assuring the quality, accuracy, and integrity of the Project Controls team's output.
• Undertaking line management activities including career development and performance management.
• Ability to interact with Senior Management / Leadership members when delivering updates on Performance Management within a complex project/programme environment.
• Guide the team on appropriate use of systems and tools (such as Primavera P6, Power Bi, Excel) in relation to Performance Management, Analysis & Reporting.
• Works to make positive change happen by embracing challenges and opportunities for our client.
  
  Due to increased opportunities and demand in the Energy & Natural Resources division, the North West team are recruiting for Project Controls Managers to join a diverse and supportive team during a period of significant growth. Our nuclear client is at the forefront of industry leading change, and we are keen to speak to like-minded individuals with senior project planning, cost control and/or risk management experience at team management level to see what Turner & Townsend can offer you. Candidates will be required to be present in our client office in Teesside for 3 days per week.