Senior Project Controls Manager (Change Baseline)

Mace; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Mace is seeking a seasoned Change Control professional to lead the embedding of change processes within a Programme Management Office. You will integrate change control with the digital strategy, develop functional requirements for a digital change control solution, and support adoption across the programme.

You will coordinate with technical, financial, scheduling, scope and risk teams, ensuring baseline integrity and auditable change records, while driving continuous improvement and strategic

Qualifications

• Experience of management of change control methodologies and techniques across programmes.
• Strong client and stakeholder management skills.
• Previous experience in change control/project controls within a major construction project or programme is essential.
• Experience of rolling out new processes across matrix organisations.
• A good understanding of the different functions within project controls.
• Ability to build lasting client relationships.
• Digitally savvy.

Responsibilities

• Developing and embedding change processes within the PMO core team across the programme.
• Integrating programme change control with the digital strategy.
• Developing functional requirements for a digital change control solution and supporting its implementation across the programme.
• Integrating processes across all areas of the programme baseline and delivery functions.
• Ensuring change control is embedded at programme and project levels.
• Identifying opportunities to improve and streamline change control processes.
• Maintaining baseline integrity and auditable records of changes.
• Managing change control activities and ensuring lessons are captured and improvements identified.
• Maintaining oversight of change volumes, status and dependencies.
• Support strategic delivery decisions and timely reporting of change data.

Skills

Change control management

Stakeholder management

Project controls in construction

Process rollout across matrix

Functions awareness in project control

Client relationship building

Digital-savvy

Job description

You’ll be responsible for:

• Developing and embedding processes: Working within the Programme Management Office (PMO) core team to develop and embed change processes across the programme.
• Integrating the programme change control processes with the digital strategy.
• Developing the functional requirements for a digital change control solution and supporting its implementation and adoption across the programme.
• Integrating the processes across all areas of the programme baseline and delivery functions, including technical, financial, schedule, scope, commercial and risk.
• Ensuring the programme change control process is embedded at both the programme and project levels.
• Identifying opportunities to improve and streamline change control processes.
• Maintaining baseline integrity: Ensuring consistency of change control across the programme and driving timely approval or rejection of proposals.
• Maintaining accurate change registers and associated records, ensuring a clear and auditable record of proposed, approved and rejected changes
• Managing change control processes: Ensuring that the operational issues of the programme controls are managed.
• Working with change owners and relevant functional leads to ensure that change proposals are consistent.
• Managing change control activities and ensuring that lessons are learned, trends are monitored and opportunities for continuous improvement are identified.
• Maintaining oversight of change volumes, status, dependencies, decisions and emerging areas of concern.
• Supporting strategic decisions: Supporting the programme leadership in making strategic delivery decisions.
• Ensuring the timely submission, validation and reporting of change control data.
• Aligning the process with risk management, supporting identification, management and mitigation of risk and realisation of opportunities.
• Assurance, training and stakeholder support: Supporting the development and delivery of change control guidance, training and communications for programme teams, Trusts and other relevant stakeholders.
• Working with Trusts to support the development, implementation and continuous improvement of effective local change control management processes.
• Building effective relationships across the programme and providing practical support to ensure that change control processes are understood and consistently applied

You’ll need to have:

• Experience of management of change control methodologies and techniques across programmes.
• Strong client and stakeholder management skills.
• Previous experience in change control/project controls within a major construction project or programme is essential.
• Experience of rolling out new processes across matrix organisations.
• A good understanding of the different functions within project controls.
• Ability to build lasting client relationships.
• Digitally savvy.

Our values

• Safety first - Going home safe and well: We champion a safe, diverse and inclusive working environment, understanding the importance of wellbeing in every team.
• Client focus - Deliver on our promise: We own the quality of deliverables, strategic outcomes and build long term relationships with our clients.
• Integrity - Always do the right thing: We influence positive outcomes within our industry, while always aligning with our compliance obligations.
• Create opportunity - For our people to excel: We champion a continuous improvement culture throughout all activities, inspiring our people and teams to develop.

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation.

We are also open to discussing part time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable with-in the role.

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