Project Controls Manager

Location/s: Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Reading, Cumbria, Manchester
Recruiter contact: Sacha Kelly

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. 

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual. 

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you're surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About the business unit  
Mott MacDonald's Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors.  

We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients' key challenges, combining our world-leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services. 

APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management.   

Specialist advisory 
Our industry-leading specialist advisory teams offer a range of transformational services that support our core project, programme, and commercial offering, as well as supporting our clients in addressing their business needs. These includes climate change, estimating and cost intelligence, health, safety and wellbeing, land advisory, planning PMO, quality management and risk management. 

The specialist advisory team brings together multiple critical services in a connected offering, drawing on cross-sector best practice and expertise. We add huge value to our clients through our integrated approach, whilst relentlessly focus on excellence and our passion for improving society.

Mott MacDonald is seeking a talented Project Controls Manager to join our growing team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering purpose-driven PMO and Controls services across a diverse portfolio of infrastructure and built environment projects — including major global programmes. If you're passionate about driving performance, shaping strategy, and making a real impact, we want to hear from you.

What you will contribute to the team; 

• Analytical skills to prepare and critically evaluate performance measures (inc. earned value) and trends across multiple datasets
• Ability to focus on key issues, and drive out mitigating or recovery actions across the project
• Good people management and task facilitation skills
• Experience of implementing robust project controls processes and toolsets in relevant industries

Required for the position of Project Controls Manager;

• Due to the nature of this role, offers may be conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of security clearance
• A background working on large scale infrastructure projects in sectors including, but not limited to water, transport, nuclear, defence
• Educated to degree level and/or hold a project controls or management qualification (e.g. APMG Planning and Controls, EVM, PMQ, Prince2)
• Flexibility to travel and work in different sectors and clients
• Risk management and reporting including the use of ARM
• Knowledge and proficiency with Primavera (P6) or Microsoft Project and/or other planning and resourcing software;
• Create and maintain project schedules that support and align with project requirements;
• Reduce uncertainty on projects by adapting project methodology;
• Project reporting including monitoring of KPIs;
• Undertake project reviews;
• Able to coordinate and work with other teams and have basic multi-disciplinary knowledge;
  Comfortable working as a consultant within a client environment;
• Strong stakeholder management experience

Preferred but not required;

• Support project managers in maintaining effective and timely change management processes
• Monitor and consolidate project plans
• PMO experience
• Knowledge or and experience using PowerBI

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

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UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion 

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working 

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• Pension matched up to 7%   
• Life insurance 
• An annual professional institution subscription   
• Continuous development opportunities – because we want you to thrive  
• Agile/flexible working – because life isn't 9-5  
• Enhanced parental leave; shared parental leave policies – for parents and care givers  
• Annual bonus scheme  
• Flexible benefits that suit you, including ability to buy/sell annual leave entitlement, cycle to work & interest free season ticket loans 
• Wellbeing support including access to an independent Employer Assistance Scheme, wellbeing champions and access to learning and support resources 
• Access to our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability and parents/carers communities 
• The opportunity to make a difference; learn more about our social outcomes

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