Senior Project Controls Engineer Defence
Turner & Townsend
CardiffOn-sitefull timeDefencePosted 2mo agoEarly applicant likely
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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.
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