Project Controls Specialists (all levels) - Performance & Reporting

Turner & Townsend; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services firm in Cambridge is seeking candidates for a role in their PMO team focused on Planning and Scheduling, Performance Reporting, and Risk Management. The position demands Project Controls experience with opportunities for professional development and involvement in various sectors including Power and Water. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of data analysis tools and the ability to lead reporting processes tailored to client needs. Flexibility and mobility within the Midlands region are required for this opportunity.

Qualifications

• Experience in a project or programme environment is essential.
• Demonstrable track record in identifying reporting and data requirements.
• Awareness of Project Controls software is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Tailor reporting processes to meet the client’s needs.
• Deliver performance and reporting management plans.
• Train and coach clients on performance management processes.

Skills

Project Controls experience

Data analysis tools (e.g., Power BI)

Data architecture understanding

Tools

Primavera P6

Active Risk Manager

Ecosys

Job description

Company Description

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. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success. 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, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Job Description

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, 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 the Midlands is required, dependent on the project and can be discussed further during the recruitment process. What you can give in flexibility and mobility you get back in access to diverse sectors such as Power, Water, Rail, Mass Transit, Local Authority, Shipyards, the opportunity to autonomously utilise your expertise to bring our clients bespoke solutions in response to their unique needs, and the opportunity to stretch yourself and boost your professional development with support from our network of dedicated line managers.

Responsibilities

• Tailoring reporting processes to meet the client’s needs and aligning with best practice.
• Deliver performance and reporting management plans for our clients based on project requirements, maturity and best practice.
• Promote the benefits and requirements of Performance Reporting & Analytics within the project and programme team.
• Implement, administer and maintain reporting systems and procedures to track project controls performance.
• Work with the Integrated Project Team to establish a robust, integrated, well structured and accurate Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) and support the change control process.
• Roll out reporting calendars to ensure a consistent drumbeat of performance data and sufficient time to assure and analyse outputs.
• Define requirements and data flows for information management systems and support our digital teams in their implementation.
• Lead the development, analysis and maintenance of corporate datasets.
• Provide guidance and advice on data quality issues to a wide variety of data providers.
• Lead material preparation for governance through projects, programmes, portfolios and the enterprise.
• Identify performance recovery recommendations for relevant stakeholders and management to support effective decision making.
• Support the project team develop, embed KPIs and contribute to the development of the performance measures dictionary.
• Develop project performance reports and dashboards, providing recommendations to relevant stakeholders and management to support effective decision making.
• Lead preparation of presentations and other materials for client governance forums and performance reviews.
• Contribute towards our national and regional performance & reporting communities including Communities of Practice.
• Train and coach clients and less experienced team members on performance and reporting management processes and practices.

Qualifications

• Experience in a project or programme environment is essential.
• An understanding of how other aspects of Project Controls (Scheduling, Cost Control, Change Control) interact with Reporting.
• Demonstrable track record in identifying reporting and data requirements and documenting these using the appropriate types of tools and documentation.
• Awareness of Project Controls software (Primavera P6, Active Risk Manager, Ecosys etc) is desirable.
• Experience in using data analysis tools (e.g. Power BI).
• An understanding of data, data architecture and data models.

Additional Information

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.

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

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