Senior Project Controls Engineer Defence

Turner & Townsend

CardiffOn-sitefull timeDefencePosted 2w 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.

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# Turner & Townsend Turner & Townsend hires professionals for cost management, project planning and controls, and security advisory roles across sectors including energy, natural resources, and defence. Based on these job titles, the company appears to provide consulting and advisory services related to project delivery and risk management.

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