Senior Project Controls Engineer - Aviation

Turner Townsend; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global project management firm is seeking a Senior Project Controls Engineer to join its Infrastructure team, supporting high-value projects at a major London-based airport. Ideal candidates will have an aviation background with experience in project controls, cost management, and a proven track record in complex environments. Key responsibilities include performance reporting and analysis, along with hands-on project control tasks. This full-time position offers an opportunity to work on impactful projects that improve lives.

Qualifications

• Experience in project controls within infrastructure, ideally airports.
• Proficient in cost monitoring and analysis.
• Strong communication and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop work breakdown structures for project controls.
• Establish progress and cost monitoring methods.
• Produce project control reports and provide performance analysis.

Skills

Earned value

Progress updating

Cost control

Change control

Baseline management

Reporting

Primavera P6

Microsoft Excel

Education

Qualified graduate in a relevant discipline

Tools

Primavera

Oracle

SAP

Job description

Overview

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people's lives. Our partnership approach 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., 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.

Role

Senior Project Controls Engineer to join our Infrastructure business, supporting a major London-based airport delivering a range of high value projects. Owing to the complex nature of the works involved, this role will suit a Project Controls Engineer from an aviation / airports background, with a proven track record of successful delivery in a major international airport environment.

Main purpose of role

The Senior Project Controls Engineer will work as part of our project controls team on a high profile aviation project, 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.

Duties

• 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 provide performance analysis and recommendations for our clients.

Experience

Previous experience working in a project controls environment on a major project or programme within the Infrastructure sector (Ideally Airports) would be beneficial. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate a thorough understanding/experience of earned value, progress updating, cost control, change control, baseline management, reporting, and a Primavera P6 environment.

Qualifications

• You will be expected to be numerate and computer literate, highly competent in the use of Microsoft Excel, planning software such as Primavera, and utilising reporting databases. You will also be familiar with financial/procurement systems such as Oracle and SAP and web-based project control tools.
• Typically, a qualified graduate in a relevant discipline with some relevant work experience or previous proven experience in a project control environment.
• Senior Project Controls Engineers should be proactive, self-starters with well developed communications and analytical skills.