Project Controls Manager

We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Controls Manager to join our growing team.

The Project Controls Manager will join our growing Yorkshire and Northeast Project Controls team, who work with a wide range of clients from Northumberland to South Yorkshire and will lead the implementation of best practice Controls, Planning, Analytics and Reporting, Risk, Change, Resource and Performance Management solutions on complex, multidiscipline, client commissions.

As a Project Controls Manager, you will be an excellent communicator, ensuring engagement and interaction with all facets of Project Controls to contribute towards the successful accomplishment of project, programme, and portfolio objectives.

Requirements

Required:

• Collaboration and Leadership, managing a project controls team on major commissions or projects, ensuring all scope is delivered and resources are coordinated effectively.
• Evidenced experience of implementing bespoke Project Controls Management strategies and processes on projects, programmes, and portfolios.
• Demonstrable knowledge of best practice project controls principles; understanding project and business objectives and drivers and translation of how a client specific life cycle or procurement strategy may impact the Project Controls Execution strategy.
• Defining what does success look like and the processes and governance we implement to ensure it is achieved
• Subject Matter Expertise in at least one discipline of Project Controls; Planning, Analytics and Reporting, Risk, Cost Control, Estimating, Change, Governance and Strategy.
• Working knowledge of project controls systems such as Primavera, Project Online, Microsoft Project, Asta Powerproject, SAP, @Risk, Pertmaster, Active Risk Manager (ARM) Acumen Suite, Power BI, Azure, Tableau, Sharepoint, CEMAR, Conject etc. with the ability to advise on best fit solutions based on specific client requirements.
• Working knowledge of contracts, specifically NEC, and the influence its detail will have on the delivery of Project Controls.
• Assurances and Audits – Undertaking independent reviews, ensuring that all project data is of a high quality, challenged and rationalised prior to submission to clients and that our commissions are managed appropriately and within internal compliances.
• Confident delivery of project status to stakeholders; where should we be, where are we, what is the impact? Making recommendations on recovery plans and mitigation strategies.
• Ownership of driving a positive can-do culture on your commission for Project Controls Management. Holding work package owners to account for their performance, designing fit for purpose outputs to suit varying stakeholder needs, the identification of key interfaces and dependencies, implementing governance to ensure effective communication and coordination.

If invited to interview, we would ask that you bring with you examples of where you can demonstrate the above required and desired attributes.

If you are a reliable, committed and highly motivated individual, with a passion for planning and problem solving but feel you do not tick all the boxes, please apply anyway. One of our core values is to bring out the best in everyone; if you can demonstrate your technical potential and we can see that you’re a great team player, communicator, collaborator and have an enthusiasm for your personal development and growth then we would still be more than happy to consider you to join our team.

Desirable:

Line Management responsibilities, specifically the demonstration of role model behaviour and ability to inspire and motivate your team. Bid or proposal preparation, writing, review, and assurance. Skilled oral and written communication, resulting in strong relationship building and report writing. A passion for passing on your expertise through mentoring or line management. Working knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365.