Project Controls Manager - Performance & Reporting

TN United Kingdom; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Project Controls Manager to enhance performance and reporting within their dynamic Infrastructure team. This role involves driving innovation and efficiency in performance reporting processes, leading teams, and implementing technological solutions. You will have the opportunity to work on high-profile projects while fostering collaboration and growth within your team. If you are passionate about delivering impactful results and advancing your career in a supportive environment, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing project controls support and digital reporting.
• Ability to lead teams and define performance management processes.

Responsibilities

• Drive implementation of performance reporting processes to enhance efficiency.
• Lead teams to deliver consistent performance information to clients.

Skills

Performance Management

Team Leadership

Communication Skills

Data Analysis

Project Controls Software

Education

Project Planning & Controls Qualification

Experience in Digital Reporting

Tools

Power BI

Primavera P6

Excel

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Project Controls Manager - Performance & Reporting, Edinburgh

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Client:

Turner & Townsend

Location:

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

05.05.2025

Expiry Date:

19.06.2025

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Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 130 countries worldwide.

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

Job Description

Our Performance & Reporting team are focused on driving innovation, enhancing our client’s integrated controls capability, improving performance, and delivering better programme outcomes. We have a growing national team of over 600 Controls & Performance professionals. The breadth and scale of our team provides great opportunities to reach back and draw upon a vast pool of experience to enhance your knowledge and career. Our strong capability, discipline communities and varied client base, provides a great opportunity to drive your career, supported by our career pathways.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Controls Manager for Performance and Reporting to join our busy and expanding Infrastructure team, who are undertaking a range of Controls & Performance duties on several high-profile Infrastructure and Defence Projects/Programmes, locally in the Northwest and nationally.

This role is predominantly based in the North with some regional travel required and we would welcome applicants based across Yorkshire, Northwest, Northeast and Scotland.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Driving implementation & continuous improvement in performance reporting (and interfacing project controls) processes to create efficiency and increasing benefits to our clients.
• Developing performance and reporting management plans for our clients based on project requirements, maturity and best practice.
• Driving the implementation, embedding and roll-out of any identified changes to Performance and Reporting processes.
• Promoting the benefits and requirements of Performance & Reporting within the project and programme team.
• Appropriately selecting, implementing, administering, and maintaining Performance & Reporting Systems and procedures.
• Promoting the adoption of technological solutions like advanced analytics and systems automation to increase the efficiency in Performance & Reporting.
• Lead implementation and change controlling reporting hierarchies and approaches.
• Defining performance governance through projects, programmes, portfolios and the enterprise.
• Lead the definition of reporting calendars to ensure a consistent drumbeat of performance data and sufficient time to assure and analyse outputs.
• Lead the definition of project controls requirements and data flows for information management systems and supporting our digital teams in their implementation.
• Working with other Project Controls disciplines to ensure alignment of project information.
• Lead the definition of KPIs and performance measures dictionary.
• Define & Implement analysis and maintenance of corporate datasets.
• Leading teams of project controls / performance & reporting professionals to deliver effective, consistent, assured and value adding performance information to our clients across diverse and complex programmes.
• Present / provide performance recovery recommendations to relevant stakeholders and senior management to support effective decision making.
• Training and coaching clients and less experienced team members on performance and reporting management processes and practices.
• Supporting T&T’s recruitment activities to grow and develop the project controls capability.
• Undertaking line management activities including career development and performance management.
• Be an active part of our national and regional performance & reporting communities including Communities of Practice.

Qualifications

Skills & Behaviours

• Ability to interact with Senior Management / Leadership members when delivering updates on Performance Management within a complex project/programme environment.
• Ability to lead a team, responsible for defining and delivering performance management cadences, on complex projects/programmes along with all associated processes & reports.
• Guide the team/client on appropriate use of systems and tools (such as Power Bi and Excel) in relation to Performance Management, Analysis & Reporting.
• Excellent communicator, (both written and verbal), to liaise with the client, contractors and designers.
• Drive positive change happen by anticipating and embracing challenges and opportunities for clients.
• Can effectively lead, connect and communicate with people to collaborate to deliver best work and balance the needs of stakeholders carefully.
• Brings out the best in everyone by helping each other making the most of their potential through proactive collaboration and effective teamworking.
• Demonstrates development of personal and team performance and core skill.
• Works with empathy and treats everyone with care and respect to continue to make T&T a great place to work.

Qualifications

• A project controls related qualification ( Project Planning & Controls) is desirable.
• Experience undertaking digital reporting activities in multiple complex projects is essential.
• Demonstrable track record in providing project controls support to the configuration and setup of project reporting information systems is essential.
• Practical experience of implementing Earned Value Management (EVM), progress reporting, forecasting and performance reporting and analysis is essential.
• An understanding of how other aspects of Project Controls (Scheduling, Cost Control, Change Control) interact with reporting is essential.
• Experience in leading small teams is desirable.
• Basic familiarity of some Project Controls software (Primavera P6, Active Risk Manager, Ecosys etc) is essential.
• Basic understanding of data, data architecture and data models is desirable.
• Experience in using data analysis tools ( Power BI) is desirable. .
• For Defence specific requirements, individuals must be sole UK National; currently holding, or have the ability to get SC Clearance

Additional Information

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

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