Senior Project Controls Engineer Defence

Turner & Townsend

CardiffOn-sitefull timeDefencePosted 2mo agoEarly applicant likely

This role is aggregated from the employer's public careers feed - the button opens their application page.

As a Senior Project Controls Engineer, the role will invovle : - Leading a cross-discipline Project Controls teams on medium risk, medium complexity, and medium value projects or programmes or being a member of a team on higher risk, complexity and value projects or programmes. - Defining the scope through the use of exclusions, assumptions, interfaces, and dependencies, and coordinating the scope’s decomposition to enable the establishment of a Work Breakdown Structure. - Working with the Integrated Project Team to establish a robust, accurate Performance Measurement Baseline and manage the change control process. - Collaborating with suppliers to integrate and analyse their performance data in accordance with Supplier Project Controls contractual requirements. - Ensuring scope, cost, risk and schedule integration and alignment. - Analysing performance data, including Earned Value Management, to provide insight and to facilitate delivery decisions. - Liaising with Finance to generate Cost and Cash Estimate to Complete and Estimate At Complete profiles. - Ensuring effective risk management through the appropriate identification, quantification, treatment and oversight of project risk. - Supporting Project Managers in the deployment of resource in-line with the resource-loaded schedules. - Establishing effective governance processes to enable structured and auditable decision making. - Assuring the quality, accuracy, and integrity of the Project Controls team’s output. - Building strong working relationships to facilitate delivery recovery planning. - Working with the Integrated Project Team to communicate and contextualise delivery performance and influence stakeholders. - Promoting learning from experience and influence process improvements. - Mentoring and coaching team members to ensure continuous capability improvement. As a Senior Project Controls Engineer, you will; - Have a proven track record of delivering projects in highly regulated sectors such as defence or infrastructure. - Have Project Controls experience across a significant proportion of the Project lifecycle. - Have experience in the application of two or more Project Controls disciplines of Planning and Scheduling, Cost Estimation, Cost Control, Risk Management or Performance Reporting and their associated software / tools. - Have a good understanding of the way in which the Integrated Project Controls disciplines operate. - Hold a proactive, curious and ‘can-do’ attitude, as well as being an individual who is comfortable in uncertain and unclear project environments. - Be a good communicator with ability to influence outcomes. - Promote empowerment and team contribution. - Have a passion to build a community and support network beyond your delivery role. - Have an undergraduate degree in a relevant technical or management field or suitable equivalent qualifications and experience. - Are a member of a relevant professional body e.g. Association for Project Management, Project Management Institute. - Have the ability to make risk-based decisions where the parameters are unclear, and judgement is needed. - Adapt your leadership style depending upon the audience and be flexible when working with uncertainty. - Be competent in using the software needed to perform the role. - Have a desire to work within various sectors and with a range of clients.

About Turner & Townsend

Turner & Townsend provides cost estimation and management services for infrastructure projects. The company hires estimators and cost management specialists.

All Turner & Townsend jobs

Stop searching - get matched.

Upload your CV and our AI will surface roles like this one, with the reasons they fit you.

Upload CV - it's free