Senior Project Controls Leader

Baker Hughes; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical care

Life insurance

Tailored financial programs

Wellbeing activities

Additional benefits

Job summary

Baker Hughes in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Project Controls Manager to support project teams, provide indirect leadership, and strengthen governance across complex programmes.

You will lead the Project Controls Plan, oversee project start-up, manage cost, schedule, and risk, and collaborate with customers and stakeholders to deliver milestones and insights while driving continuous improvement in project controls.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Project Controls on complex or major projects/programmes.
• Expert-level knowledge of Project Controls methodologies and practices.
• Demonstrated experience in applying and assuring governance across large-scale projects.
• Advanced proficiency in tools including MSP, Oracle applications (P6, Unifier, ERP), Active Risk Manager (ARM) or other Risk software, Risk Analyser software, and Power BI.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the Project Controls Plan, ensuring alignment with project objectives and overseeing associated procedures.
• Oversee the Project Start-up on Execution projects. Monitor the Project team based on Internal standard requirements.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for the Project Director, project team, and customer regarding project cost, schedule, and risk matters.
• Lead the integration of schedule, cost, scope change, and risk management processes across the project lifecycle.
• Support the Project Planning team in generating the project schedule against the Customer requirements, including resource loading, critical path analysis, and progress tracking.
• Overseeing the setup and operation of project controls systems, tools, and interfaces to enable effective management and reporting.
• Engaging and interface with key internal and external stakeholders as required.
• Monitoring overall project progress, milestone achievement, and identify deviations from plan; provide performance forecasts and insights.
• Tracking and reporting on the project’s critical path, offering early warnings of potential delays to the Project Director.
• Conducting budget vs. actual cost analysis in collaboration with finance managers and cost controllers to ensure accurate financial tracking.
• Ensuring all change requests are properly assessed and reflected in project budgets and schedules.
• Facilitating and leading major cost and schedule risk analysis workshops, both internally and with customers when needed.
• Ensuring project-level risk is managed in accordance with company standards and processes.
• Leading the reporting of project status and KPIs to senior management as part of the Project Governance framework.
• Capturing and implementing lessons learned to support continuous improvement across projects.

Skills

MSP

Oracle P6

Unifier

Active Risk Manager

Power BI

Governance in projects

Tools

ERP software

Risk Analysers

Job description

Baker Hughes in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Project Controls Manager to support project teams, provide indirect leadership, and strengthen governance across complex programmes.

You will lead the Project Controls Plan, oversee project start-up, manage cost, schedule, and risk, and collaborate with customers and stakeholders to deliver milestones and insights while driving continuous improvement in project controls.