Project Controls Specialists - All Levels

Our PMO Northwest team is looking to expand its Controls community. We are looking to welcome passionate and ambitious candidates across all our professional, senior professional and managerial grades who will support our early careers, grow into leadership roles, and bring their skills and expertise to our communities of practice, fostering our values with specific emphasis to Bringing out the best in Everyone.

With exciting growth in region including new Major Programmes, Projects and Clients, we’re looking for flexible and mobile Planning and Scheduling / Performance Reporting / Risk Management candidates to deliver services in our local region. Travel within within the Northwest region is required dependent on the project and can be discussed further during the recruitment process. You will have an excellent opportunity to work across a breadth of sectors including Power, Water, Rail, Defence, Nuclear, Local Authority, and Shipyards.

• You will work as part of our Project Controls team on high-profile infrastructure projects, providing performance reporting and analysis support. This may be part of a large team or as the key day-to-day contact point with the client.

Typical activities include working with cost and planning engineers to develop work breakdown structures and robust performance baselines, establishing progress and cost monitoring methods, producing project control reports and providing performance analysis and recommendations for our clients.

Previous experience working in a project controls environment within the infrastructure sector (Energy, Defence, Rail, Airports, Highways, Water / Utilities) is required, as is experience in at least one of the following: Programme Controls Management, Earned Value (EVM), Change & Risk Management, Planning, Project Controls and or PMO.

• Typically, a qualified graduate in a relevant discipline with some experience in a project control environment.
• Experience of working in a project or programme management environment, with responsibility for delivery or controls of individual projects, programmes or portfolios
• Experience using controls/ general software applications such as Primavera (P6), Power BI, Microsoft Office Applications.
• 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.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills required
• Demonstrable knowledge of best practice planning principles
• Technical competence in schedule construction
• Assurance reviews – ensuring that all schedules are of a high quality, evidenced by using Primavera Schedlog, Acumen Fuse, DCMA 14 Point Checklist or simply a conscientious attitude towards the self-checking of work prior to submission
• Effective schedule monitoring and control; baseline management, planning workshops, progress data collection, performance measurement, variance reporting, escalation of issues.
• Evaluation of project status
• Ownership of driving a positive can-do culture on your commission for Schedule Management.

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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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