Senior Project Controls Engineer - Aviation

Job Descriptionturner & Townsend; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner Townsend in London is seeking a Senior Project Controls Engineer to support a major aviation project at a London airport. You will deliver performance reporting, cost control, and baseline management within a busy controls team.

The role requires a background in airports or infrastructure, proficiency with Primavera P6, Excel, Oracle and SAP, and strong communication and analytical skills to provide robust recommendations to the client.

Qualifications

• Typically, a qualified graduate in a relevant discipline with some relevant work experience or proven experience in a project control environment.
• Familiarity with Primavera, Oracle, SAP, Excel and web-based project control tools is required.
• Senior Project Controls Engineers should be proactive, self-starters with well-developed communication and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop work breakdown structures and robust performance baselines with cost and planning engineers.
• Establish progress and cost monitoring methods.
• Produce project control reports and provide performance analysis.
• Offer recommendations based on data to the client.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Numerate

Self-starter

Education

Graduate in a relevant discipline

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Excel

Oracle

SAP

Reporting databases

Job description

Senior Project Controls Engineer - Aviation

Date: 2026-09-30

Location: The Borough, Greater London, GB, SE1 1

Application Deadline: 2026-12-30T07:00:43.027

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.

Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Controls Engineer to join our busy and expanding Infrastructure business, supporting a major London based airport deliver 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

• 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.
• Providing 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 should demonstrate a thorough understanding/experience of the following:

• Earned value
• Progress updating
• Cost control
• Change control
• Baseline management
• Reporting
• 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 utilizing reporting databases. Familiarity with financial/procurement systems such as Oracle and SAP and web-based project control tools is also required. Typically, a qualified graduate in a relevant discipline with some relevant work experience or proven experience in a project control environment. Senior Project Controls Engineers should be proactive, self-starters with well-developed communication and analytical skills.

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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Summary

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