Change Manager - Project Controls and Cost Management

About the Role

• In‑house capability matrix tracks progression and highlights development areas. • Develop and maintain a robust delivery schedule with clear milestones aligned to the total project plan. • Perform schedule monitoring, identify critical activities and assist in updating the schedule. • Develop and apply installation rates, review contractor schedules and provide recommendations. • Evaluate quantities, job hours and schedule logic; prepare progress and performance reports. • Manage contract programme assessment, compensation events and conduct delay analysis.

Key Responsibilities

• ▸capability matrix
• ▸schedule development
• ▸schedule monitoring
• ▸installation rates
• ▸progress reporting
• ▸delay analysis

What You Bring

The role requires full right to work in the UK and a commitment to 2‑3 days on site. Candidates will work closely with cost management, planning and commercial teams in a highly regulated, operational environment. • Proven experience managing change control within complex infrastructure or capital programmes. • Strong understanding of the relationship between change, cost, schedule and risk. • Ability to assess change impacts at both project and programme level. • Solid background in cost management, commercial management or project controls. • Experience assessing cost impacts, forecasts, contingencies and budget movements. • Understanding of earned value, cost reporting and financial governance. • Experience working closely with planning teams (P6 or similar) and assessing schedule impacts. • Ability to support time‑cost trade‑off decisions and understand baseline management. • Experience operating within structured governance frameworks and preparing clear change papers. • Comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders and investment boards. • Strong stakeholder management skills across client, consultant and contractor teams. • Experience working in live, operational or regulated environments such as transport, aviation or utilities. • Ability to challenge constructively and influence decision‑making. • Full right to work in the UK. • 2‑3 days on site. • Perkbox employee experience platform.

Requirements

• ▸change control
• ▸cost management
• ▸earned value
• ▸primavera p6
• ▸stakeholder management
• ▸uk right to work

Benefits

Position: Change Manager – Project Controls and Cost Management (140CMR). The role is full‑time, based on a 2‑3 day on‑site schedule, starts immediately and offers a competitive salary. At CMR we nurture a strong culture driven by nine core principles, with 96% of our team rating us as a “Great Place to Work”. We focus on people, supportive collaboration and doing things differently, offering a community where everyone can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. The package includes 25 days of holiday (plus bank holidays), comprehensive private healthcare (including dental and optician), life assurance at four times salary, a 4% employer pension contribution, performance‑based bonuses, salary‑sacrifice scheme, long‑service leave, training and professional development, regular social events and access to Perkbox. • Opportunity to professionally develop like nowhere else. • Merit‑based system enables rapid progression for capable individuals. • Rewarding culture that celebrates achievements and supports each other during tough times. • 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays). • Comprehensive private healthcare including dentist and optician. • Life assurance at four times salary. • Employer pension contribution of 4%. • Company and personal performance‑based bonus. • Salary sacrifice scheme. • Long service leave. • Training and professional development. • Regular social events.

Work Environment

Office Full-Time