Project Manager - Glasgow, United Kingdom - HDR

Description

At HDR, we specialize in engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services.

While we are most well-known for adding beauty and structure to communities through high-performance buildings and smart infrastructure, we provide much more than that.

We create an unshakable foundation for progress because our multidisciplinary teams also include scientists, economists, builders, analysts and artists. That's why we believe diversity is our greatest strength.

The primary role of this position is to develop and maintain project controls practices on assigned projects, with the goal to meet scope, schedule, and budget performance.

This role will work alongside the Program and Project Managers to establish project controls approach for the project and, and when necessary, manage a project controls team to actively monitor project performance plan and identify potential deficiencies.

The type of projects could include data centres, substations and transmission lines, industrial facilities, renewable resources, power generation, waste facilities, or transportation.

Depending on the size of the project or program, this role may manage a team of project controls specialists from schedule, cost, risk, earned value, document control, and PMIS (Project Management Information System) when executing program work.

In the role of Project Controls Manager, we'll count on you to:

Develop project controls processes and procedures for assigned programs/projects to set up a framework to manage scope, budget and schedule.

The workstreams under project controls include schedule management, cost management, change management, risk management, and document management.

Manage and direct a team of project controls specialists and document controls specialists to implement project controls plan for the program.

Collaborate with corporate project controls director and business group business class lead for consistent project controls approach.
Work with project manager, accountants and other team leads to develop work breakdown structure and cost breakdown structure.
Develop, update, and analyse CPM schedules for projects including variance analysis.
Facilitates multi-stakeholders interactive planning sessions such as schedule workshop.
Coordinate with teams regarding the interface with owner's activities, permitting, real estates, engineering, construction and commissioning schedule.
Review and oversight of contractor's schedules for assigned work scope.
Communicates project status to management regularly via formal meeting and report.
Assist project manager in monthly reporting and meeting.
Establishes cost control method for the assigned project or program.
Support Project and Program Managers in preparing and implementing change management procedure.

Work closely with the PMIS team to recommend technology solutions to manage data and information that the program will receive, generate, analyse, consume and communicate to stakeholders.

Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, engineering management, accounting, business administration or closely related fields.

Familiar with variation of project controls role using various delivery methods including traditional design bid build (DBB), design-build (DB), EPCm, progressive design build (PDB), Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), and/or construction management at-risk (CMAR).

able to manage priorities and workflow on multiple simultaneous projects.
Highly proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suites
Willingness to travel

Experience with additional PMIS software (eBuilder, ProCore, QuickBase, InEight, Kahua, PMWeb, etc.) Minimum 10 years serving as Project Controls Manager for infrastructure projects each with contract values of more than $300 million, or a program with interrelated projects with combined values of $300 millions or more.

Minimum 10 years working knowledge of and proficient at project controls and scheduling software packages such as Primavera P6, and Microsoft Projects.

PMP
Experience with commercial management of contracts (e.g.

Led by the strength of our values and a culture shaped by employee ownership, we network with each other, build on each other's contributions, and collaborate together to make great things possible.

We help you take charge of your career, giving you multiple growth opportunities along the way.
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