Senior Project Controls Manager

Laing O'Rourke; Ipswich; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Laing O'Rourke is recruiting a Project Controls Manager to support the Sizewell C civil works. You will oversee planning, scheduling and earned value across the Sub-Section, ensuring cost and time constraints are met while aligning with the civils programme.

Based in Ipswich with hybrid working two days per week, you will lead IMS development, review subcontractor programmes, and coach teams on planning processes while collaborating with the CWA planning groups to maintain safety, quality and

Qualifications

• Experience communicating schedule updates to Senior Management in complex manufacturing projects.
• Strong leadership in schedule management and related processes.
• Ability to guide teams on Project Controls, Planning, and Scheduling tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with clients, contractors, and designers.
• Proven experience developing and maintaining project controls and schedules across multiple capital projects.
• Skilled in defining and improving planning approaches.
• Solid knowledge of Project Management and Planning techniques.
• Proficient in Primavera P6 and Earned Value Management (EVM).
• Experience integrating multiple schedules and managing Change and Risk systems.
• Familiar with interfacing planning with Cost and Change Control.
• Security clearance as required.

Responsibilities

• Manage and deploy project controls for the Sub-Section, aligning with project goals and requirements.
• Support and maintain Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS), and coding systems for accurate reporting.
• Develop and implement Earned Value Management (EVM) and generate progress and performance reports.
• Lead development and maintenance of Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) across fabrication and manufacturing scopes.
• Collaborate with Civil Works Alliance (CWA) planning teams and enforce planning standards.
• Perform Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (QSRA) and include schedule contingencies.
• Analyze schedule variances and develop recovery options.
• Coach team members on planning processes and project controls best practices.
• Monitor and report on project KPIs and earned value metrics for effective decision-making.

Skills

Schedule management

Leadership in schedule management

Project Controls

Planning tools

Communication with stakeholders

Primavera P6

Earned Value Management

Change and Risk management

Interface with cost/change control

Tools

Primavera P6

CEMAR

Job description

Location: Orwell Logistics Park – Ipswich with hybrid working: 2 days per week from home.

Join the exciting journey of one of the UK's largest nuclear projects at Sizewell C!

The Civil Works Alliance (CWA), appointed by the Sizewell C client, unites three industry-leading contractors — Laing O'Rourke, Bouygues, and Balfour Beatty — to deliver the full civils scope, including Enabling Earthworks, Main Civil Works, and Marine and Tunnelling.

Reporting to the Senior Project Manager, the Project Controls Manager will oversee planning and scheduling to support the delivery of Stainless-Steel Pools, Tanks, Liners, Sumps, and all Special Embedded Parts for Sizewell C. You will manage project controls within agreed constraints, including productivity, time, and cost through integrated Earned Value Management.

Embedded within the manufacturing team, you will review and approve subcontractor programmes and develop onsite manufacturing schedules aligned with the main civils programme milestones. Functionally, you will report to the Civil Works Alliance Project Controls Lead for Main Civil Works, ensuring control processes meet safety, quality, time, and cost requirements to support the Sub-Section's objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and deploy project controls for the Sub-Section, aligning with project goals and requirements.
• Support and maintain Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS), and coding systems for accurate reporting.
• Develop and implement Earned Value Management (EVM) and generate progress and performance reports.
• Lead development and maintenance of Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) across fabrication and manufacturing scopes.
• Collaborate with Civil Works Alliance (CWA) planning teams and enforce planning standards.
• Perform Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (QSRA) and include schedule contingencies.
• Analyze schedule variances and develop recovery options.
• Coach team members on planning processes and project controls best practices.
• Monitor and report on project KPIs and earned value metrics for effective decision-making.

What skills & experience are we looking for?

Essential:

• Experience communicating schedule updates to Senior Management in complex manufacturing projects.
• Strong leadership in schedule management and related processes.
• Ability to guide teams on Project Controls, Planning, and Scheduling tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with clients, contractors, and designers.
• Proven experience developing and maintaining project controls and schedules across multiple capital projects.
• Skilled in defining and improving planning approaches.
• Solid knowledge of Project Management and Planning techniques.
• Proficient in Primavera P6 and Earned Value Management (EVM).
• Experience integrating multiple schedules and managing Change and Risk systems.
• Familiar with interfacing planning with Cost and Change Control.
• Security clearance as required.

Desirable:

• Formal Primavera P6 training.
• Experience with CEMAR or similar contract management tools.
• Knowledge of NEC contracts.

Why SZC?

This is your chance to contribute to one of the UK's most ambitious infrastructure projects, shaping the future of energy while working in a supportive, dynamic environment. Be part of a team that values innovation, safety, and sustainability at every stage of the journey—from investment to construction and beyond.

About Laing O'Rourke

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

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