Senior Project Controls Manager / Project Controls Manager

Join our team as a Senior Project Controls Manager or Project Controls Manager, where you will play a crucial role in delivering high-profile infrastructure projects. You will lead a project controls team, develop and monitor the Performance Measurement Baseline, measure current performance, and provide specialist advice to project leaders. This position requires strong leadership skills, experience in project controls management, and knowledge of government investment processes.

• Supervision and management of a Project Controls team, setting objectives, reviewing performance, and providing feedback.
• Developing, monitoring, and assuring the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB), and measuring current performance.
• Chairing and/or facilitating project/programme level change forums, escalating change papers with high level impact.
• Experienced in the use of data and analytics to fully understand an issue, engage stakeholders and lead the implementation of business-wide change and continuous improvement
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present at programme or portfolio level forums or meetings to senior stakeholders
• Experience in a client organisation or managing subcontractors from project controls perspective in a complex infrastructure project/ programme
• Successful leadership with a proven track record of delivering results within a large-scale project environment
• Knowledge of the principles of Government investment processes and procedures. Formal qualification in Programme Management, e.g., MSP - Managing Successful Programmes
• A good standing formal professional Project Management or project controls management qualification or certification or Membership of a relevant professional body with (or working towards) Chartered Status and/or educated to degree level
• Proficiency in EVM processes and their application in complex infrastructure projects and possessing a strong aptitude to oversee schedule, cost, risk, change control management activities, and reporting
• Excellent visual communicator, able to provide insights and analysis through dashboards and visual reports
• Resilience, with the ability to maintain rational thought in a high-pressure environment
• Experience of project controls management under NEC Forms of Contract, including contract management and administration within rail and/or UK construction industry. Accredited NEC4 Project Manager desirable
• Proven expertise in a Project Management or Project Controls Management position, specifically within complex infrastructure projects across sectors such as transport, energy, defence, water or oil & gas
• We are recruiting for Project Controls professionals at multiple seniority levels. The final level will be determined based on your skills, experience, and performance during the selection process
• Experience of the rail industry and its regulatory framework, or a similarly regulated industry
• Exceptional skills and experience at managing stakeholders such as clients, senior leaders, and various colleagues in a matrix and line organization