Project Controls Specialists - All Levels

Turner & Townsend; Bognor Regis; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading project management consultancy in Bognor Regis seeks candidates for their Project Controls team. The role involves performance reporting and analysis for high-profile infrastructure projects across sectors like Power, Water, and Defence. Ideal candidates should have a background in project controls and experience with tools such as Primavera and Power BI. The firm emphasizes flexible working and aims to foster a positive culture for its employees.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Opportunities for career growth

Qualifications

• Qualified graduate with experience in a project control environment.
• Proven experience in project or programme management delivery.
• Ability to monitor project schedules and manage baselines effectively.

Responsibilities

• Provide performance reporting and analysis support on projects.
• Develop work breakdown structures and performance baselines.
• Collaborate with engineers to produce project control reports.

Skills

Project controls experience

Strong communication skills

Time management

Technical competence in schedule construction

Education

Qualified graduate in a relevant discipline

Tools

Primavera (P6)

Power BI

Microsoft Office Applications

Job description

Job Description

Our PMO Northwest team is looking to expand its Controls community. We are 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, fostering our values with specific emphasis to Bringing out the best in Everyone.

With exciting growth in 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 Northwest region is required dependent on the project and can be discussed further during the recruitment process. You will have an excellent opportunity to work across a breadth of sectors including Power, Water, Rail, Defence, Nuclear, Local Authority, and Shipyards.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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, evidenced by using Primavera Schedlog, Acumen Fuse, DCMA 14 Point Checklist or simply a conscientious attitude towards the self-checking of work prior to submission.
• 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.

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.