Project Director - Controls & Performance

Turner & Townsend; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Project Director to lead a range of commissions, managing performance measurement and reporting within major programmes. You will be a highly experienced practitioner in project controls disciplines including estimating, cost control, planning, risk and change control.

You will design and implement systems to deliver effective performance measurement and reporting and foster a controls-based culture across organisations.

Qualifications

• Typically, a qualified graduate in a relevant discipline with eight or more years relevant experience or more than ten years’ experience in a project control environment.
• Proven track record as a Project Controls Leader, delivering performance measurement and analysis for major programmes.
• Experience implementing controls-based systems and fostering a culture of performance reporting across organisations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the performance measurement and reporting solution on major projects.
• Provide specialist controls consultancy and advice on project controls systems and processes.
• Train and conduct project performance reviews to drive improvements.

Skills

Performance measurement

Project controls

Cost engineering

Planning

Risk management

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Education

Graduate degree in a relevant discipline

Tools

Project controls software

Job 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.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

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.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

Project Directors will lead a variety of commissions, managing the performance measurement, analysis and reporting function within major programmes. PCL’s are expected to be a highly experienced practitioner in performance management, with good understanding of the project controls disciplines of estimating, cost control, planning, risk and change control. You are able to design and implement systems and processes to deliver effective performance measurement and reporting. You have experience in developing a controls-based culture within organisations.

Duties

Typical activities include developing and implementing the performance measurement and reporting solution on major projects, providing specialist controls consultancy, advice on project controls systems and processes, training and project performance reviews.

Qualifications

Typically, a qualified graduate in a relevant discipline with eight or more years relevant experience or more than ten years’ experience in a project control environment.

Experience

Proven track record as a Project Controls Leader, a specialist in performance measurement and analysis and delivering successful solutions for clients. PCL’s should be proactive, with highly developed communications and analytical skills and able to promote a controls culture across a variety of organisations.

PCL’s should be highly conversant in both planning and cost engineering methodologies and be able to lead an integrated project control approach to be adopted by their teams and clients. In addition, they should be highly numerate and computer literate, highly competent in the use of project controls systems, familiar with the challenges of integrating project controls systems with other databases and systems. PCL’s should be able to pick up new systems readily and utilise them in highly effective ways.

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 want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

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.

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