Project Controls Specialists - All Levels - Planning

Turner & Townsend; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking passionate Project Controls Specialists to join their dynamic team in Leeds. This role offers the chance to work on high-profile infrastructure projects across various sectors, including Energy and Rail. Candidates will provide essential performance reporting and analysis, collaborating with cost and planning engineers to ensure project success. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your career within a supportive environment that values professional growth and innovation. If you're ready to make an impact and thrive in a flexible and mobile role, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Qualified graduate with experience in project controls.
• Experience in project/programme management environments.

Responsibilities

• Support performance reporting and analysis on infrastructure projects.
• Develop work breakdown structures and robust performance baselines.

Skills

Project Controls Management

Earned Value Management (EVM)

Change & Risk Management

Planning

Performance Reporting

Strong communication skills

Time management

Technical competence in schedule construction

Education

Graduate in a relevant discipline

Tools

Primavera (P6)

Power BI

Microsoft Office Applications

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Project Controls Specialists - All Levels - Planning

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Company Description
At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 110 offices worldwide.

Job Description
Our PMO Yorkshire Northeast 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 Yorkshire and the Northeast 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.

• 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.
• 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.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com.

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. Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

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