Senior Project Controls Engineer

Turner & Townsend; Manchester; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Project Controls Engineer in Manchester to support major infrastructure projects across rail, highways, water and utilities. You will work within the Project Controls team, delivering performance reporting, baseline management and data-driven recommendations to clients.

Expertise in planning systems (Primavera, MS Project, Project Online, Asta Powerproject) and EVM is essential, with collaboration across cost and planning engineers and senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable knowledge of best practice planning principles and how client objectives drive plans.
• Technical competence in schedule construction: WBS, calendars, durations, logic, CPD networks and buffers.
• Working knowledge of planning systems: Primavera, Project Online, Microsoft Project, Asta Powerproject.
• Assurance reviews to ensure high-quality schedules using Primavera Schedlog or Acumen Fuse/ DCMA 14 Point Checklist.
• Effective schedule monitoring and control: baseline management, progress data collection, variance reporting.

Responsibilities

• Develop work breakdown structures and robust performance baselines with cost and planning engineers.
• Establish progress and cost monitoring methods and produce project control reports.
• Provide performance analysis and recommendations for clients; chair weekly meetings and risk reviews.

Skills

Planning principles

Schedule construction

Primavera

MS Project

Asta Powerproject

Earned Value

Risk management

Stakeholder comms

Tools

Primavera

Project Online

Microsoft Project

Asta Powerproject

Acumen Fuse

DCMA 14 Point Checklist

Job description

Senior Project Controls Engineer

Start Date: 2026-10-19T00:00:00

Location: Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester, GB, M2 5DB

Contract Type: Any

Company: Turner & Townsend

Application Deadline: 2026-11-17T10:00:36.657

Company 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.

Job Description

We are currently recruiting for Senior Project Controls Engineers to undertake duties within our Manchester based, Infrastructure, Project Controls team, supporting projects across the rail, aviation, highways, water, marine/ports, utilities and nuclear sectors. 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 (Rail, Aviation, Highways, Water, Marine/Ports, Utilities, and Nuclear) 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

Required:

• Demonstrable knowledge of best practice planning principles; understanding of project and business objectives and drivers, translation of how a client specific life cycle or procurement strategy may impact the plan, execution planning, consultation with critical individuals and documents. Defining what does success look like?
• Technical competence in schedule construction; work breakdown structures, working calendars, task creation and duration estimation, schedule logic, critical path networks, resource and cost allocation, and the allocation of buffers.
• Working knowledge of planning systems such as Primavera, Project Online, Microsoft Project, Asta Powerproject.
• 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; where should we be, where are we, what is the impact? This may take the form of chairing weekly meetings, progress reporting, composition of schedule narratives, participation in risk reviews, recovery and scenario planning and making recommendations.
• Ownership of driving a positive can-do culture on your commission for Schedule Management. Holding work package owners to account for their performance, designing fit for purpose outputs to suit varying stakeholder needs, the identification of key interfaces and dependencies, implementing meeting governance to ensure effective communication and Information

Our Values and Environment

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.

Please find out more about us at #LI-FL1SOX

Control Responsibilities

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

Social Media & Recruitment Policy

Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects: Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn.

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. 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. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.

Summary

• Type: Full-time
• Function: Engineering
• Experience level: Mid-Senior Level
• Industry: Construction