Project Controls Manager

Project Controls Manager reports to Buildings Business Director.  The role is focused on:

• Project Controls – Schedule, Cost, Risk & Earned Value Management

• Resource Management – Backlog + Opportunities Vs Capacity

The successful candidate will be responsible for, but not limited to:

Project Controls:

Maintain the project control system for the PD&E business that includes but is not limited to:

• Cost forecasting (Portfolio wide)

• Integration of cost & schedule through earned value – PM support

• Risk & Opportunity reporting

• Production and maintenance of monthly Buildings progress report with focus on people, process and performance.

• Tracks and analyses the project costs, including budgets, commitments, actuals, accruals, and forecasts.

• Monthly monitoring of earned value management system.

• Implement and promote a data driven culture to improve business and project performance to support EBIT growth in region.

• Set cash and billing target for select projects based on prior month review with Project Manager

• Support the execution of project governance, reporting and review framework to provide a holistic view of all organizational programme activity.

• Manage interdependencies and coordination across projects within the business to ensure that information relating to project deliverables, risks and issues are effectively communicated between stakeholders and that KPIs are monitored and evaluated.

• Work closely with Buildings Mgmt, Delivery Mgmt & Finance team to ensure commercial and project performance measure are aligned and feed into financial reporting.

Resource management:

• Work with practice leads in maintaining a consistent system for resource management.

• Support the Business Unit Leads and GTC (offshore design office in India) in maintaining a resource look ahead based on backlog & pipeline work

• Monitor the deployment of staff to projects in conjunction with business unit leads & practice leads.

• Consider bidding effort and input requirements working with business and practice leads.

Digital support to services:

• Work with regional project control team to implement technology that has been developed by the digital futures group that supports automation.

• Making sure that the Power BI dashboard is updated monthly. The dashboard is managed by separate team. The Key action is to ensure pipeline and backlog data is accurate.

Relevant experience & Qualifications

• Master’s degree level or equivalent professional qualification

• Minimum of 10 years in project controls (Cost, Schedule & Risk)

• Good experience in Design Management

• Expert problem-solving skills

• Expert presentation skills

• Expert in MS tools excel, including visual basic, access & PowerBi

• Proficient in P6

• Proficient in the set-up of the Earned Value Management Systems