Project Controls Manager

3 weeks ago

Grays Essex, United Kingdom Balfour Beatty Highways Full time

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About the role

Would you like to join a world-leading construction and infrastructure business? This is an excellent opportunity to join our team and become part of our success. We have a fantastic opportunity for atalented Project Controls Manager to join our Highways team to work on the Lower Thames Crossing Project.

What you'll be doing

  • Develop and implement standard project scheduling processes and procedures ensuring alignment with project objectives and deadlines.
  • Collaborate with project managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to create realistic and achievable project plans.
  • Monitor and analyse project expenditures, ensuring adherence to budget constraints.
  • Identify and communicate cost trends, potential risks, and opportunities for cost savings.
  • Establish and maintain a comprehensive risk management framework for projects.
  • Facilitate risk management procedures and processes to regularly update risk registers and communicate risk status to relevant stakeholders.
  • Implement key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure project progress and success.
  • Provide insight into performance trends and variations from planned outcomes.
  • Develop and implement change control processes to manage project scope changes effectively.
  • Assess the impact of changes on project timelines, costs, and resources.
  • Generate and distribute regular project control reports to stakeholders at all levels.
  • Communicate project status, issues, and potential risks to project teams and leadership.

Who we're looking for

  • Bachelors degree in Engineering, Project Management, Business, or a related field
  • Previous experience as a Project Controls Manager in a major multi-discipline engineering environment.
  • Understanding of NEC3 contracts.
  • Analytical mindset and proficiency in data analysis tools and attention to detail.
  • Ability to lead, train and mentor people at all levels.
  • Advanced knowledge of MS office applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
  • Proven experience in continuous improvement and process optimisation.

Why work for us

Our people are our biggest asset and we focus on recruiting, training and developing the people who can apply innovation to deliver the infrastructure of the future. We nurture these talents, offer a great benefits package in addition to a competitive base salary and continually invest in developing the skills of our people at every level. Some of our key benefits are:

  • Company car or car allowance
  • Medical health cover
  • BB Pension Scheme
  • Discretionary annual bonus scheme
  • 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
  • Payment of an annual professional membership
  • Enhanced maternity/paternity & family friendly policies
  • Real career progression opportunities
  • Access to our Employee Referral Scheme

About Us

Balfour Beatty Highways delivers major schemes including smart motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put our customer, the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, delivering net carbon reductions and social value to the communities within which we work.

Diversity & Inclusion: At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at:

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