Project Controls Manager - Energy

Turner & Townsend

The Role

Overview

Lead project controls team for nuclear client, delivering planning, cost, risk and reporting.

Key Responsibilities

  • team leadership
  • control framework
  • baseline management
  • tool guidance
  • wbs development
  • supplier integration

Tasks

-Leading cross-discipline teams of project controls professionals to drive delivery of robust and effective project controls services and continuous improvement in project controls processes. -Undertaking line management activities including career development and performance management. -Assuring the quality, accuracy, and integrity of the Project Controls team’s output. -Defining scaled, tailored and integrated approaches for project controls and documenting these (for example in a Project Control System Definition). -Working with the Integrated Project Team to establish a robust, accurate Performance Measurement Baseline and manage the change control process. -Guide the team on appropriate use of systems and tools (such as Primavera P6, Power Bi, Excel) in relation to Performance Management, Analysis & Reporting. -Create efficiency and increasing benefits to our nuclear client by defining and implementing project controls approaches across the project, programme and portfolio levels to allow effective decision making at all levels. -Defining the scope through the identification and management of exclusions, assumptions, interfaces, and dependencies, and coordinate the scope’s decomposition. -Effectively connects and communicates with people to collaborate to deliver our best work. -Working with our client to develop relevant breakdown structures, support scope definitions and in turn project controls products with the professionals and senior professionals in their team. -Working with Project and Commercial Management to establish the Supplier Project Controls contract requirements, and then collaborating with suppliers to integrate and analyse their performance data. -Training and coaching client team and less experienced project team members on performance and reporting management processes and practices. -Defining and implementing effective governance and assurance processes around project controls products. -Ensuring scope, cost, risk and schedule integration and alignment, and analyse performance data to provide delivery insight and facilitate delivery decisions. -Brings out the best in everyone by helping the team in making the most of their potential through proactive collaboration and effective teamworking, working with empathy and treating everyone with care and respect.

Requirements

  • primavera p6
  • nec/fidic
  • stakeholder mgmt
  • leadership
  • bpss clearance
  • nuclear sector

What You Bring

-Are a member of a relevant professional body e.g., Association for Project Management, Project Management Institute. -Adherence to NEC or FIDIC contract processes for management of project controls data and deliverables. -Have experience in using some Project Controls software (Primavera P6, Active Risk Manager, Ecosys etc). -Have strong stakeholder management experience. -Have a desire to work within the nuclear sector. -Have excellent verbal and written communication skills. -Have strong leadership skills with the ability to mobilise, inspire and lead by example. -Can navigate through conflict situations and defuse tension. -Ability to interact with Senior Management / Leadership members when delivering updates on Performance Management within a complex project/programme environment. -Have the ability to make risk-based decisions where the parameters are unclear, and judgement is needed. -Will be able to obtain BPSS level security clearance. -Have practical experience of integrating Project Controls disciplines and the ability to assess the maturity of a team and ways of working.

The Company

About Turner & Townsend

-Operates across various sectors, including real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources, providing comprehensive services such as construction consultancy, asset and facilities management, and environmental consultancy. -Expertise spans advisory, cost and commercial management, digital solutions, and program management, enabling them to handle complex capital projects and drive transformative change for their clients. -With over 10,000 employees in 48 countries, the company leverages local knowledge and global expertise to deliver tailored solutions for each project.

Sector Specialisms

Energy

Buildings

Infrastructure

Security Clearance

-bpss level security clearance required.