Senior Engineer- Project Controls

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General Expertise: Senior Engineer – Project Control

• Responsibility as Senior Engineer – Project Control for larger, more complex global projects relating to highways, rail, infrastructure and other markets; including pre and post project controls.
• Ensure that the Atkins processes are applied from bidding and project set up, through to project execution and closure.
• Collaborate with Project Management team to produce Cost Breakdown Structure based on project Work Breakdown Structure to setup governance requirements in discussion with the Project Manager/s.
• Prepare process and tools to carry out pricing estimates based on project stakeholders’ input.
• Track and analyze the project costs including budgets, commitments, actuals, accruals, forecasts, contingencies analysis.
• Proactively engage regularly with project stakeholders to gather their inputs and get agreement.
• Demonstrate continuous improvement, automation, lean techniques to bring consistency and efficiencies across projects, programmes and portfolios in project controls, cost and schedule management.
• Produce forecasts of total project costs, annual costs, and monthly cash flow costs and provides variance analysis and explanations. Carries out an earned value and project performance analysis of the project on a periodic basis.   
• Monitor, control and analyse the project cost and schedule information, identify variances and bring these to the attention of the Project Manager with possible alternatives. Prepare specific reports to facilitate challenge and analysis to meet the project’s specific needs.
• Produce and issue cost reports to the client and project team, including key project indicators.
• Develop, manage, revise, and update integrated detailed project schedules including all phases of project execution.
• Proactively analyze project schedules including comparing cost/resource curves to actuals, tracking float consumption, and change order impact analysis to ensure compliance with contract requirements.
• Support Project managers on proactively raising early warnings and preparing change orders to be submitted to the clients and updates to project controls specific documents.
• Supply chain management to support contract preparation and meet fair payment requirements
• Support Risk identification and reporting.
• Demonstrate leadership skills in guiding and mentor junior staff to meet delivery requirements.
• Expertise in Power BI/Data Analytics.
• Ability to analyze and understand large sets of data (turn this analysis into Actionable steps) and develop customized ad hoc reports. Create dashboards and interactive visual reports using Power BI. 
• Identify key performance indicators (KPIs) with clear objectives and consistently monitor those. Create relationships between data and develop tabular and other multidimensional data models. Perform DAX queries and functions in Power BI.
• Analyze current ETL process, define and design new systems. Redefine and make technical/strategic changes to enhance existing Business Intelligence systems. Design, develop and deploy business intelligence solutions as per needs. SQL querying for best results, use of filters and graphs for better understanding of data.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred in Construction Management, Building Technology, Civil Engineering or related field.
• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience on global UK, Middle East or US projects.
• Client facing with excellent language, report writing, presentation and communication skills.
• Strong understanding of earned value concepts and calculations.
• Proficiency in cost management tools such as Ecosys and report preparation skills.
• Preferable - PMIS Software knowledge – Primavera, Unifier, Ares Prism, Ecosys.
• Practiced in Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS).
• Proficient in Financial System Interface.
• Proficient in Budget/Cost Control.
• Practiced in Cash Flow.
• Practised in Contingency Management.
• Proficient in Cost Change Control.
• Exposure to NEC3 / NEC 4 Contracts.
• Must have strong understanding of CPM (Critical Path Method) concepts and calculations.
• Extensive Enterprise Project Management experience.
• Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to quickly adapt to changing environments and requirements.

Preferred Skills

• Certified Estimating Professional, Certified Cost Professional, Certified Schedule Professional, Project Management Professional or equivalent credential(s).
• Expert in Microsoft Power BI.
• Expertise in O365 Apps.
• Good to have automation skills using Visual Basic or any other s/w.

What We Can Offer You:

Varied, interesting and meaningful work.

A hybrid working environment with flexibility and great opportunities.

Opportunities for training and, as the team grows, career progression or sideways moves.

An opportunity to work within a large global multi-disciplinary consultancy on a mission to change the ways we approach business as usual.

Why work for AtkinsRéalis?

We at AtkinsRéalis are committed to developing its people both personally and professionally. Our colleagues have the advantage of access to a high ranging training portfolio and development activities designed to help make the best of individual’s abilities and talents. We also actively support staff in achieving corporate membership of relevant institutions.

Meeting Your Needs:

To help you get the most out of life in and outside of work, we offer employees ‘Total Reward.’

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Additional Information:

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