Senior Project Controls Lead – Infrastructure Programs

Rolls-Royce SMR; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 79,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

£2,200 annual benefit allowance

12.5% bonus opportunity

6x pensionable life assurance

50% income protection

28 days holiday plus bank holidays

£250 new joiner payment

Job summary

Rolls-Royce SMR is seeking a Project Controls Manager to guide delivery teams across the SMR programme. You will integrate cost, schedule and risk data to tell the performance story for senior leaders within a major national infrastructure programme.

You’ll join the PMO, collaborating with planners, cost analysts and engineering to ensure accurate information flow, enabling informed decision‑making and continuous improvement in a complex matrix environment.

Qualifications

• PMO environments, monthly reporting cycles and enterprise reporting.
• Integrating data to produce meaningful project performance insights.
• Communicating complex project information clearly to diverse audiences.
• Working collaboratively across matrix organisations.
• Cost and schedule management best practice.
• Running schedule development meetings and monthly reporting inputs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the collation, validation and integration of cost, schedule and risk information for internal reporting.
• Prepare, review and present performance reports to stakeholders with clear insights and recommendations.
• Produce and manage KPI reporting and drive continuous improvement.
• Monitor project progress, costings, logic, resourcing and planning quality.
• Collaborate daily with Procurement, Commercial and Estimating.
• Mentor and support a team of project controls professionals.

Skills

PMO reporting

Cost management

Schedule management

Risk management

Stakeholder communication

Data analysis

Education

Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Power BI

Power Query

Excel

Cost management tooling

Job description

Rolls-Royce SMR is seeking a Project Controls Manager to guide delivery teams across the SMR programme. You will integrate cost, schedule and risk data to tell the performance story for senior leaders within a major national infrastructure programme.

You’ll join the PMO, collaborating with planners, cost analysts and engineering to ensure accurate information flow, enabling informed decision‑making and continuous improvement in a complex matrix environment.