Senior Defence Project Controls Engineer – SC Clearance

Turner-; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Project Controls Engineer to lead cross-discipline teams on medium risk projects within the Defence sector. The role focuses on scope definition, EVM, change control, and governance to support delivery in regulated environments.

The successful candidate will travel 2-3 days per week to client sites across the UK and work with the Integrated Project Team to ensure robust performance baselines and timely decision making.

Qualifications

• Have proven experience delivering projects in defence or infrastructure sectors.
• Experience across multiple Project Controls disciplines such as Planning, Cost, Risk or Performance Reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-discipline Project Controls teams on medium risk/complexity projects.
• Define scope with exclusions, assumptions, interfaces and dependencies to establish WBS.
• Establish Performance Measurement Baseline and manage change control.
• Collaborate with suppliers to integrate performance data per contractual requirements.
• Ensure scope, cost, risk and schedule alignment and provide delivery insights using earned value data.
• Support resource deployment and governance to enable auditable decisions.

Job description

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Project Controls Engineer to lead cross-discipline teams on medium risk projects within the Defence sector. The role focuses on scope definition, EVM, change control, and governance to support delivery in regulated environments.

The successful candidate will travel 2-3 days per week to client sites across the UK and work with the Integrated Project Team to ensure robust performance baselines and timely decision making.