Project Controls Specialists - All Levels - Planning

Turner & Townsend; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthy work-life balance

Flexible working environment

Opportunities for career growth

Job summary

A global professional services company is seeking Project Controls Specialists across all levels in Glasgow. The role focuses on delivering project control services for high-profile infrastructure projects, requiring skills in project controls management and tools like Primavera and Power BI. Ideal candidates will be graduates with experience in project controls and strong analytical skills. The position offers opportunities for personal growth in a supportive working environment that values work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Experience in a project control environment is required.
• Experience in project or programme management with delivery responsibility.
• Demonstrable knowledge of best-practice planning principles.

Responsibilities

• Provide performance reporting and analysis support on infrastructure projects.
• Develop work breakdown structures and performance baselines.
• Produce project control reports and provide performance analysis.

Skills

Project Controls Management

Earned Value Management (EVM)

Risk Management

Technical competence in schedule construction

Strong communication skills

Time-management skills

Education

Qualified graduate in a relevant discipline

Tools

Primavera (P6)

Power BI

Microsoft Office Applications

Job description

Project Controls Specialists – All Levels – Planning

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 outcomes that improve people’s lives. We provide 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.

Our PMO Scotland team is looking to expand its Controls community. We are seeking passionate and ambitious candidates across all professional, senior professional and managerial grades to support early careers, grow into leadership roles and bring their skills to our communities of practice, fostering our values, especially “Bringing out the best in Everyone.”

With growth in the region including new major programmes, projects and clients, we need flexible, mobile Planning and Scheduling / Performance Reporting / Risk Management candidates to deliver services in our local region. Travel within Scotland will be required.

Responsibilities

• 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

• Qualified graduate in a relevant discipline with some experience in a project control environment.
• Experience 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 and able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
• Strong time‑management skills, quick thinking, and ability to meet project deadlines.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrable knowledge of best‑practice planning principles.
• Technical competence in schedule construction.
• Assurance reviews – ensuring that all schedules are of a high quality, e.g., using Primavera Schedlog, Acumen Fuse, DCMA 14‑point checklist or a conscientious self‑check.
• 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 schedule management.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We support a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work‑life balance.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Equal Opportunity

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.

No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom