Senior Project Controls Engineer

TURNER & TOWNSEND; Manchester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is recruiting a Senior Project Controls Engineer for our Manchester-based Infrastructure team, supporting rail, aviation, highways, water, marine/ports, utilities and nuclear sectors. You will contribute to performance reporting, reporting against baselines, and provide insight for project control decisions.

The role involves collaboration with cost and planning engineers to develop robust controls, monitor progress, and deliver schedules with a clear narrative for clients.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates knowledge of planning principles and how client life cycles affect the plan.
• Technical competence in schedule construction including WBS, calendars, durations and critical path.
• Experience with planning systems: Primavera, Project Online, MS Project, Asta Powerproject.
• Assurance reviews ensuring high-quality schedules using tools or self-checking prior to submission.
• Effective schedule monitoring, baseline management, progress data collection and variance reporting.

Responsibilities

• Develop work breakdown structures and robust performance baselines with cost/planning engineers.
• Establish progress and cost monitoring methods and produce project control reports.
• Provide performance analysis and recommendations for clients.
• Chair weekly meetings and participate in risk reviews, recovery and scenario planning.

Skills

Planning principles

Schedule construction

Planning systems

Schedule monitoring

Risk management

Tools

Primavera

Project Online

Microsoft Project

Asta Powerproject

Job description

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.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

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 coordination.

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.

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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