Project Controls Specialists - All Levels - Planning

Turner & Townsend; Leeds; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services company is seeking candidates for roles in Planning and Scheduling/Performance Reporting/Risk Management based in Yorkshire. This position involves working with a close-knit team on high-profile infrastructure projects, providing performance reporting and analysis support. Ideal candidates will be experienced in project controls, have strong communication skills, and possess a relevant degree. The role offers opportunities for professional development and involvement in diverse sectors such as Power, Rail, and Water.

Qualifications

• Experience in project/programme management with project controls responsibilities.
• Demonstrable knowledge of best practice planning principles.
• Ability to meet project deadlines as necessary.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of the Project Controls team on high-profile infrastructure projects.
• Develop work breakdown structures and robust performance baselines.
• Provide performance analysis and recommendations for clients.

Skills

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Time-management skills

Ability to work autonomously

Experience in a project controls environment

Technical competence in schedule construction

Education

Qualified graduate in a relevant discipline

Tools

Primavera (P6)

Power BI

Microsoft Office Applications

Job description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with 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.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

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.

• 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

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.

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