Project Controls Manager

Mott MacDonald; Dublin; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Pension matched up to 7%

Annual performance bonus

Cycle to work scheme

Travel TaxSaver tickets

Job summary

Mott MacDonald is looking for a Project Controls Manager in Dublin, Ireland. This role involves overseeing project performance measures, managing large scale infrastructure projects, and collaborating with various teams to ensure effective project delivery. The ideal candidate should have relevant educational qualifications and experience in project management and controls.

The company promotes a hybrid working policy, ensuring flexibility and well-being for staff along with a broad range of benefits including pension, life insurance, and professional development support.

Qualifications

• Experience managing large scale infrastructure projects.
• Flexibility to travel across sectors.
• Proficiency in project scheduling and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and evaluate performance measures across multiple datasets.
• Monitor project plans and support change management.
• Coordinate with teams and conduct project reviews.

Skills

Analytical skills

People management

Project controls processes

Change management

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Education

Degree level qualification

Project controls or management qualification

Tools

Primavera (P6)

Microsoft Project

PowerBI

Job description

Location/s: Dublin, IE

Mott MacDonald

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. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

About the Business Unit

Mott MacDonald's Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers 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.

Overview of the Role

Our industry‑leading specialist advisory teams offer a range of transformational services that support our core project, programme, and commercial offering, as well as supporting our clients in addressing their business needs. These include climate change, estimating and cost intelligence, health, safety and wellbeing, land advisory, planning PMO, quality management and risk management. The specialist advisory team brings together multiple critical services in a connected offering, drawing on cross‑sector best practice and expertise. We add huge value to our clients through our integrated approach, whilst relentlessly focusing on excellence and our passion for improving society.

Project Controls Manager – Key Contributions

• 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

Preferred but Not Required

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

Candidate Specification

Essential

• Due to the nature of this role, offers may be conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of security clearance
• A 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
• 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

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at [e-mail] and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile Working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well‑being, flexibility, and trust.

Benefits

• Flexible working
• Pension matched up to 7% of base salary
• Competitive annual leave
• An annual professional institution subscription
• Life insurance
• Income continuance
• Enhanced paternity leave
• Annual company performance bonus scheme – subject to company performance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Travel TaxSaver tickets
• Commitment to continuing professional development – we are accredited by Engineers Ireland
• Mentoring and support for career development and progression