Senior Project Controls Engineer – Defence Programs

Turner & Townsend; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Project Controls Engineer to lead cross-disciplinary teams on defence and infrastructure projects in the UK. The role requires coordinating scope, cost, risk and schedule, and delivering robust performance baselines with strong governance.

You will mentor colleagues, optimise resource deployment, and ensure compliant, auditable decision making while collaborating with clients and suppliers in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering projects in highly regulated sectors such as defence or infrastructure.
• Experience across a significant portion of the project lifecycle.
• Proficiency in two or more project controls disciplines and their tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-discipline project controls teams on medium risk/medium complexity projects or programmes; or be a team member on higher risk/complexity projects.
• Define scope using exclusions, assumptions, interfaces and dependencies; enable Work Breakdown Structure.
• Work with Integrated Project Team to establish robust Performance Measurement Baseline and manage change control.
• Collaborate with suppliers to integrate performance data per contractual requirements.
• Ensure scope, cost, risk and schedule integration and alignment.
• Analyze performance data including Earned Value to guide delivery decisions.
• Liaise with Finance to generate Cost and Cash Estimate to Complete and Estimate At Complete profiles.
• Ensure effective risk management and oversight of project risk.
• Support Project Managers in resource deployment with resource-loaded schedules.
• Establish governance for auditable decision making and ensure output integrity.
• Build strong relationships for delivery recovery and communicate performance to stakeholders.
• Promote learning and process improvements; mentor team members.

Skills

Project controls

Planning & Scheduling

Cost estimation

Cost control

Risk management

Performance reporting

Earned value

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Defence experience

Education

Engineering degree

PMI/APM member

Tools

Project controls software

Job description

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Project Controls Engineer to lead cross-disciplinary teams on defence and infrastructure projects in the UK. The role requires coordinating scope, cost, risk and schedule, and delivering robust performance baselines with strong governance.

You will mentor colleagues, optimise resource deployment, and ensure compliant, auditable decision making while collaborating with clients and suppliers in a regulated environment.