Project Controls Manager - Energy

Turner Townsend; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading project management consultancy is seeking a Project Controls Manager in Warrington to lead project controls professionals in delivering effective services to nuclear clients. Responsibilities include defining performance management processes, implementing project control approaches, and ensuring governance compliance. Ideal candidates will have senior experience in project planning and cost control, with proficiency in online tools. This role requires presence in the Warrington office 3 days a week.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in project planning and controls.
• Strong capability in managing diverse project teams.
• Ability to train and coach junior team members.

Responsibilities

• Lead and enhance project control services.
• Define and implement project control approaches.
• Ensure governance compliance in project controls.

Skills

Cross-discipline leadership

Performance management

Project controls processes

Governance and assurance

NEC or FIDIC contracts

Data analysis

Coaching and training

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 Warrington for 3 days per week.