Senior Project Controls Manager

Mott Macdonald; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consultancy in the UK is looking for a Senior Project Controls Manager to enhance project management quality across diverse projects. The role demands robust analytical skills complemented by effective people management experience. Candidates should have knowledge of project controls tools like Primavera and possess strong stakeholder management abilities. This role also offers various benefits, such as a competitive pension, life insurance, and opportunities for professional growth while supporting flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Pension matched up to 7%

Life insurance

Annual bonus scheme

Agile/flexible working

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Experience in large scale infrastructure projects is essential.
• Flexibility to travel across different sectors.
• PMO experience is required.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and evaluate performance measures across datasets.
• Implement robust project controls processes and toolsets.
• Create and maintain project schedules.

Skills

Analytical skills

Good people management

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Knowledge of Primavera (P6)

Knowledge of PowerBI

Education

Degree level education or project controls qualification

Tools

Primavera (P6)

Microsoft Project

Job description

Overview

Due to the nature of this role, offers may be conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of security clearance. Mott MacDonald is seeking a talented Senior Project Controls Manager experienced in all facets of Project Controls to join our growing team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering purpose-driven PMO and Controls services across a diverse portfolio of infrastructure and built environment projects – including major global programmes. If you’re passionate about driving performance, shaping strategy, and making a real impact, we want to hear from you.

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve.

Responsibilities

• Analytical skills to prepare and critically evaluate performance measures (inc. earned value) and trends across multiple datasets.
• Ability to focus on key issues, and drive out mitigating or recovery actions across the project.
• Good people management and task facilitation skills.
• Experience of implementing robust project controls processes and toolsets in relevant industries, with background working on large scale infrastructure projects in sectors including, but not limited to, water, transport, nuclear, defence.
• Educated to degree level and/or hold a project controls or management qualification (e.g. APMG Planning and Controls, EVM, PMQ, Prince2).
• Flexibility to travel and work in different sectors and clients.
• Experience in designing, mobilising and leading large project, programme and/or portfolio management functions.
• Risk management and reporting including the use of ARM.
• Knowledge and proficiency with Primavera (P6) or Microsoft Project and/or other planning and resourcing software.
• Create and maintain project schedules that support and align with project requirements.
• Reduce uncertainty on projects by adapting project methodology.
• Project reporting including monitoring of KPIs.
• Undertake project reviews.
• Able to coordinate and work with other teams and have basic multi‑disciplinary knowledge.
• Comfortable working as a consultant within a client environment.
• Strong stakeholder management experience.

Qualifications

• Support project managers in maintaining effective and timely change management processes.
• Monitor and consolidate project plans.
• PMO experience.
• Knowledge or experience using PowerBI.

Benefits

• Pension matched up to 7%
• Life insurance
• An annual professional institution subscription
• Continuous development opportunities – because we want you to thrive
• Agile/flexible working – because life isn’t 9‑5
• Enhanced parental leave; shared parental leave policies – for parents and care givers
• Annual bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits that suit you, including ability to buy/sell annual leave entitlement, cycle to work & interest free season ticket loans
• Wellbeing support including access to an independent Employer Assistance Scheme, wellbeing champions and access to learning and support resources
• Access to our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability and parents/carers communities
• The opportunity to make a difference; learn more about our social outcomes

Happy to talk flexible working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

About The Business Unit: Mott MacDonald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors. We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients’ key challenges, combining our world‑leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services.

APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management. Specialist advisory teams provide transformational services supporting our core project, programme and commercial offering, and addressing our clients’ business needs. These include climate change, estimating and cost intelligence, health, safety and wellbeing, land advisory, planning PMO, quality management and risk management.