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    Project Controls Manager - Reading, United Kingdom - Turner & Townsend

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    Job Description

    We are hiring for Project Controls professionals (Planning, Governance, Reporting, Risk and Controls) with proven experience of delivery across these areas. You will lead a multi-functional Project Controls team, working collaboratively with the clients Project Manager and supply chain to provide a realistic baseline and embed effective controls to monitor progress, manage issues and mitigate slippage to drive delivery and enable successful project outcomes.

    Key Accountabilities

    • Embed a robust breakdown structure, integrating the data from each of the controls functions.
    • Coordinate and lead planning sessions and workshops to compile the master project/programme schedule baseline, ensuring an achievable duration.
    • Understand procurement principals, collating lead times within the schedule to communicate the prioritisation of ordering materials and equipment to meet scheduled install dates.
    • Manage the risk management process, including being responsible for qualitative and quantitative assessments to support cost and schedule predictability.
    • Stakeholder management ensuring all key stakeholders sign off the baseline and have visibility of regular progress updates.
    • Embed a robust change process, ensuring schedule, interfaces, cost, risk and changes are managed effectively.
    • Guide and influence the principal contractor and client, working with them to drive delivery and achieve schedule and cash flow KPI's.
    • Control costs with your knowledge of conceptual estimating, funding stage gates, basic contingency principals, procurement principals.
    • Control the master program applying quality checks to updates from the client and principal contractor.
    • Lead the change management process and work-flow, providing a platform for adding/ tracking/ monitoring/ approving change in a timely fashion.
    • Identify trends and root causes of deviations against the baseline using lead and lag indicators, reporting effectively any remedial actions in order to drive best value for the client.
    Qualifications
    • Proven experience in delivering Controls in a major project/ programme environment, ideally within Defence, Data Centre's, Life Sciences, Pharma, R&D facilities, Industrial, Manufacturing, Distribution & Logistics sectors
    • Experience working in a comparative specialist sector
    • Experience in managing a multi-functional controls team
    • Proficiency with controls/ general software applications such as Primavera (P6), Power BI, Microsoft Office Applications.
    • Knowledge of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and start-up work processes.
    • Knowledge of engineering and construction management
    • Experience of leading collaborative workshops
    • Reliable with the ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
    • Strong time management skills, quick thinking and ability to meet project deadlines as necessary.
    • Highly motivated and driven with a passion for delivering to your clients and have the ability to work independently.
    • Strong verbal and written communication skills required
    • Flexible with regards to travel, even with increased levels of remote working, we still need people who are willing to travel to client sites as required.
    Additional Information

    Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

    We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

    Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

    Please find out more about us at

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    SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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    It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

    Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.

    SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

    Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:

    Twitter

    Instagram

    LinkedIn

    It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

    Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.



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