Project Controls Specialists (all levels) - Performance & Reporting

Turner & Townsend; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in Nottingham is seeking Project Controls Specialists at all levels to join our Midlands PMO. You will work across planning, scheduling, performance reporting and risk management to deliver insight and support decision making on major programmes.

Travel across the Midlands is required; you will collaborate with delivery teams, develop dashboards and reports, and contribute to our communities of practice while growing into leadership roles.

Qualifications

• Experience in a project or programme environment is essential.
• Understanding of how Project Controls (Scheduling, Cost Control, Change Control) interact with Reporting.
• Awareness of Project Controls software (Primavera P6, Active Risk Manager, Ecosys) is desirable.
• Experience in using data analysis tools (Power BI) is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Tailoring reporting processes to meet the client's needs and aligning with best practice.
• Delivering performance and reporting management plans for our clients based on project requirements, maturity, and best practice.
• Promoting the benefits and requirements of Performance Reporting & Analytics within the project and programme team.
• Implementing, administering, and maintaining reporting systems and procedures to track project controls performance.
• Working with the Integrated Project Team to establish a robust, integrated PMB and support change control.
• Rolling out reporting calendars to ensure a consistent drumbeat of performance data.
• Defining data flows for information management systems and supporting digital teams.
• Leading the development, analysis and maintenance of corporate datasets.
• Providing guidance on data quality issues to various data providers.
• Leading material preparation for governance through projects, programmes, portfolios and the enterprise.
• Identifying performance recovery recommendations for stakeholders and management.
• Supporting the project team in developing KPIs and the performance measures dictionary.
• Developing project performance reports and dashboards with recommendations for stakeholders.
• Leading preparation of client governance forums and performance reviews.

Skills

Planning & Scheduling

Performance Reporting

Risk Management

Data analysis (Power BI)

Communication

Tools

Primavera P6

Active Risk Manager

Ecosys

Job description

Project Controls Specialists (all levels) - Performance & Reporting

2026-10-19T00:00:00

Location: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, GB, NG1 5, Any

Company: Turner & Townsend

Application Deadline: 2026-11-17T19:00:24.417

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.

Working alongside project delivery teams as part of a wider reporting & performance management team or independently with reach back support to experienced performance & reporting professionals, responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Tailoring reporting processes to meet the client's needs and aligning with best practice.


• Delivering performance and reporting management plans for our clients based on project requirements, maturity, and best practice.


• Promoting the benefits and requirements of Performance Reporting & Analytics within the project and programme team.


• Implementing, administering, and maintaining reporting systems and procedures to track project controls performance.


• Working with the Integrated Project Team to establish a robust, integrated, well structured, accurate Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) and support the change control process.


• Rolling out reporting calendars to ensure a consistent drumbeat of performance data and sufficient time to assure and analyse outputs.


• Working with project controls to define requirements and data flows for information management systems and supporting our digital teams in their implementation.


• Leading the development, analysis and maintenance of corporate datasets.


• Providing guidance and advice on data quality issues to a wide variety of data providers.


• Leading material preparation for governance through projects, programmes, portfolios and the enterprise.


• Identifying performance recovery recommendations for relevant stakeholders and management to support effective decision making.


• Supporting the project team in developing, embedding KPIs and contributing to the development of the performance measures dictionary.


• Developing project performance reports and dashboards, providing recommendations to relevant stakeholders and management to support effective decision making.


• Leading preparation of presentations and other materials for client governance forums and performance reviews.


• Contributing to our national and regional performance & reporting communities including Communities of Practice.


• Training and coaching 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) is advantageous.

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.

Please find out more about us at our social media platforms. It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. We do not ask candidates to pay fees at any time. Unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees.

Summary

• Type: Full-time


• Function: Engineering


• Experience level: Mid-Senior Level


• Industry: Utilities