Project Controls Specialists - All Levels - Planning

Turner & Townsend; Derby; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking Project Controls Specialists at all levels to join their dynamic team. This role offers the opportunity to work on high-profile infrastructure projects while providing performance reporting and analysis. Candidates will engage in developing work breakdown structures and establishing effective monitoring methods. With a focus on growth and leadership, this position is ideal for passionate individuals eager to make an impact in a collaborative environment. Join a company that values diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace, where your contributions can truly enhance project outcomes.

Qualifications

• Qualified graduate in a relevant discipline with experience in project control.
• Strong communication and time management skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Work on high-profile infrastructure projects providing performance reporting.
• Develop work breakdown structures and robust performance baselines.

Skills

Project Control

Performance Reporting

Risk Management

Time Management

Communication Skills

Education

Relevant Degree

Tools

Primavera (P6)

Power BI

Microsoft Office

Job description

Project Controls Specialists - All Levels - Planning

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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. 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.

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.

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.

• 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.

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.
• 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
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.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Industries: Construction, Civil Engineering, and Business Consulting and Services