Project Controls Specialists - All Le...

Turner & Townsend Plc.; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking passionate Project Controls Specialists at all levels to join their dynamic team. This role focuses on delivering high-quality performance reporting and analysis for major infrastructure projects. Candidates will collaborate with cost and planning engineers to establish monitoring methods and produce insightful project control reports. With exciting growth opportunities in the Midlands, this is a chance to enhance your career in a supportive environment that values diversity and inclusion. If you're ready to take on challenges in a flexible and mobile role, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in project controls within the infrastructure sector is required.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills are necessary.

Responsibilities

• Provide performance reporting and analysis support on high-profile projects.
• Develop work breakdown structures and performance baselines.

Skills

Project Controls Management

Earned Value Management (EVM)

Change Management

Risk Management

Time Management

Strong Communication Skills

Education

Qualified Graduate in Relevant Discipline

Tools

Primavera (P6)

Power BI

Microsoft Office Applications

Job description

Project Controls Specialists - All Levels - Planning

• Full-time
• Department: Infrastructure

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. 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. Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Our PMO Midlands team is looking to expand its Controls community. We are a close-knit team and we’re looking to welcome passionate and ambitious candidates across all our professional, senior professional and managerial grades who will support our early careers, grow into leadership roles and bring their skills and expertise to our communities of practice.

With exciting growth in the region including new Major Programmes, Projects, and Clients, we’re looking for flexible and mobile Planning and Scheduling / Performance Reporting / Risk Management candidates to deliver services in our local region. Travel within the Midlands is required dependent on the project and can be discussed further during the recruitment process.

You will work as part of our Project Controls team on high-profile infrastructure projects, providing performance reporting and analysis support. This may be part of a large team or as the key day-to-day contact point with the client.

Typical activities include working with cost and planning engineers to develop work breakdown structures and robust performance baselines, establishing progress and cost monitoring methods, producing project control reports, and providing performance analysis and recommendations for our clients.

Previous experience working in a project controls environment within the infrastructure sector (Energy, Defence, Rail, Airports, Highways, Water / Utilities) is required, as is experience in at least one of the following: Programme Controls Management, Earned Value (EVM), Change & Risk Management, Planning, Project Controls, and or PMO.

• Typically, a qualified graduate in a relevant discipline with some experience in a project control environment.
• Experience of working in a project or programme management environment, with responsibility for delivery or controls of individual projects, programmes or portfolios.
• Experience using controls/general software applications such as Primavera (P6), Power BI, Microsoft Office Applications.
• 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.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills required.
• Demonstrable knowledge of best practice planning principles.
• Technical competence in schedule construction.
• Assurance reviews – ensuring that all schedules are of a high quality.
• Effective schedule monitoring and control; baseline management, planning workshops, progress data collection, performance measurement, variance reporting, escalation of issues.
• Evaluation of project status.
• Ownership of driving a positive can-do culture on your commission for Schedule Management.

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.

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