The Opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Controls Manager (Project Controls Manager Grade) to join our busy and expanding Natural Resources & New Energies team, who are undertaking a range of Controls & Performance duties on high-profile Projects/Programmes. Additionally, this role will provide the opportunity to innovate, collaborate and learn from our experienced and award-winning Scope & Integration community and wider extensive Controls and Performance Network.

Working alongside project delivery teams as part of a wider scope & integration team or independently with reach back support to experienced scope & integration professionals, responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Leading cross-disciple teams of project controls professionals to deliver effective, consistent, assured and value adding project controls services to our clients across diverse and complex programmes.  
• Driving continuous improvement in project controls processes to create efficiency and increasing benefits to our clients.  
• Defining and implementing project controls approaches across the project, programme and portfolio levels allowing effective decision making at all levels.  
• Defining and implementing effective governance and assurance processes around project controls products.
• Working with clients to develop relevant breakdown structure and support scope definitions.  
• Defining scaled, tailored and integrated approaches for project controls and documenting these (for example in a Project Control System Definition). 
• Defining the scope through the identification and management of exclusions, assumptions, interfaces, and dependencies, and coordinate the scope’s decomposition.
• Working with the Integrated Project Team to establish a robust, accurate Performance Measurement Baseline and manage the change control process.
• 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.
• Ensuring scope, cost, risk and schedule integration and alignment, and analyse performance data to provide delivery insight and facilitate delivery decisions.
• Training and coaching clients and less experienced team members on performance and reporting management processes and practices. 
• Assuring the quality, accuracy, and integrity of the Project Controls team’s output.   
• Undertaking line management activities including career development and performance management.