Project Controls Specialist

3 weeks ago

Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Turner & Townsend Full time

Job Title: Project Controls Specialist

Company Overview: Turner & Townsend is a leading professional services company that delivers ambitious and highly technical projects globally.

Job Summary: We are seeking an experienced Project Controls Specialist to join our team. The successful candidate will establish processes, templates, and tools, and agree the baseline for cost and schedule, while monitoring performance against it and incorporating the impacts of risk, opportunities, and change in a controlled manner.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Identify trends and root causes of deviations against the baseline using lead and lag indicators, recommend remedial actions to drive best value for the client.
  • Lead the evaluation of the project's time, cost, and quality targets, applying governance controls as necessary to enable the successful delivery of the project.
  • Cooperate with a remote team of cost managers responsible for reaching an agreed, market-tested cost baseline and ensuring the client is receiving value for money.
  • Guide and influence the general contractor, ensuring they are progressing in line with the schedule and within agreed cash flow parameters.
  • Act as the key point of contact to the client, overcoming delivery and commercial issues while preparing formal and ad hoc reports focusing on time, cost, and quality targets.
  • Control costs with knowledge of conceptual estimating, funding stage gates, basic contingency principles, and procurement principles.
  • Create and/or work within a cost report, summarizing financials in an executive-level dashboard.
  • Understand change management principles, lead agreed change management processes, and work flows, providing a platform for adding, tracking, monitoring, and approving change.
  • Coordinate and lead planning sessions and workshops with clients and vendors to compile the master project/programme schedule, agreeing baselines and a critical path.
  • Understand procurement principles, collate lead times from vendors and clients into the master schedule, communicate the prioritization of ordering materials and equipment to meet scheduled install dates.
  • Work closely with the client to define vendor schedule requirements.
  • Actively participate in project team risk evaluations, incorporating defined risks into Monte Carlo to output quantitative impacts to the overall project cost and schedule.
  • Work closely with the project team to stay informed on the status of project changes, incorporating and communicating these to the project team to allow for approvals in the change management process.
  • Hold vendors accountable for required schedule updates and reporting to maintain timely and accurate updates of the master schedule, ensuring that the schedules adhere to the defined process and quality expectations.

Requirements:

  • Proven experience in project controls coordination in all phases of the project lifecycle, including program, risk, and reporting, with specialist life sciences or data centre sector experience.
  • Demonstrated experience in the ability to determine corrective actions or recommendations based on facts and figures and critically evaluating information and data from various sources.
  • Advanced skills in MS Office and Primavera P6.
  • Able to demonstrate a commitment to providing excellent service.
  • 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.
  • Highly motivated and driven with a passion for delivering to clients and have the ability to work independently.

Additional Information: Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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