Senior Project Controls Engineer - Planning - Defence

Turner & Townsend Plc.; London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative team as a Senior Project Controls Engineer in the Defence sector. This role offers the opportunity to work on exciting projects while contributing to sustainability and net zero goals. You will be responsible for creating and maintaining project schedules, evaluating performance, and assisting project managers with change management. Enjoy a hybrid working environment that promotes work-life balance and personal development. This established industry player is committed to diversity and inclusion, ensuring every voice is heard and valued. If you are passionate about making a difference and thrive in a collaborative atmosphere, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Qualified graduate with experience in project control environment.
• Understanding of Project Controls concepts and software applications.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain project schedules aligning with requirements.
• Evaluate project schedule progress and identify problem areas.
• Assist project managers with change management processes.

Skills

Project Controls

Schedule Management

Performance Reporting

Change Management

NEC or FIDIC Contract Processes

Primavera (P6)

Power BI

Microsoft Office Applications

Education

Degree in relevant discipline

Tools

Primavera (P6)

Power BI

Microsoft Office

Job description

• Full-time
• Department: Defence

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 110 offices worldwide. As part of our 2025 Vision we are putting Sustainability and Net Zero at the heart of our business.

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Controls Engineer - Planning to join our expanding Defence team in the South East.

This role will operate on a hybrid working routine, with time expected in our office and a minimum of two days per week on our client sites.

Project Controls Engineers work as part of our project controls teams, 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.

Key Responsibilities

1. Create and maintain project schedules that support and align with project requirements.
2. Develop the project schedules in conjunction with the project manager and project team.
3. Reduce uncertainty, know objectives and improve efficiency.
4. Interact with project team to define scope of work to develop and update detailed schedules, cost information and identification of variances from original plan.
5. Evaluate project schedule progress and performance and identify developing problem areas.
6. Breakdown critical path and constraints to understand effect of changes to schedule and recommend work-around.
7. Assist project managers to maintain timely and effective change management processes and procedures.
8. Adherence to NEC or FIDIC contract processes for management of schedule data and submissions.

Qualifications

• Typically, a qualified graduate in a relevant discipline with some experience in a project control environment.
• Experience of working in project or programme management environment, with responsibility for delivery or controls of individual projects, programmes or portfolios.
• Experience using controls/ general software applications such as Primavera (P6), Power BI, Microsoft Office Applications.
• Demonstrated understanding of Project Controls concepts.

Knowledge and Proficiency with multiple discipline specific software applications such as Primavera (P6) and/or other planning and resourcing software.

Owing to the specialist and sensitive nature of the work that we carry out for a number of our clients, candidates will ideally hold UK MoD security clearance or be able to obtain & maintain security clearance.

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.