Overview

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Location/s: Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Reading, Cumbria.

Recruiter contact: Sacha Kelly.

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We work across global industries, delivering work that is defining our future and making an impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. Mott MacDonald is an employee-owned business, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce reflective of the communities we serve.

About the business unit: Mott MacDonald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across built environment sectors. APD delivers services to projects up to £20bn across disciplines including programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management.

We are seeking a talented Senior Project Controls Manager to join our growing team. This is an exciting opportunity to deliver PMO and Controls services across a diverse portfolio of infrastructure projects, including major global programmes.

What you will contribute to the team

• Analytical skills to prepare and critically evaluate performance measures (including earned value) and trends across multiple datasets.
• Ability to focus on key issues and drive mitigating or recovery actions across the project.
• Good people management and task facilitation skills.
• Experience implementing robust project controls processes and toolsets in relevant industries.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain project schedules that support and align with project requirements.
• Reduce uncertainty on projects by adapting project methodology.
• Project reporting including monitoring of KPIs; undertake project reviews.
• Coordinate and work with other teams; maintain basic multi-disciplinary knowledge; work as a consultant within a client environment.
• Strong stakeholder management experience.

Required For The Position Of Senior Project Controls Manager

• Due to the nature of this role, offers may be conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of security clearance.
• A background working on large-scale infrastructure projects in sectors including water, transport, nuclear, defence.
• Educated to degree level and/or hold a project controls or management qualification (e.g. APMG Planning and Controls, EVM, PMQ, Prince2).
• Flexibility to travel and work in different sectors and with different clients.
• Risk management and reporting including the use of ARM.
• Knowledge and proficiency with Primavera (P6) or Microsoft Project and/or other planning and resourcing software.
• Ability to create and maintain project schedules that align with requirements; monitor KPIs and deliver project reviews.
• Ability to coordinate with other teams and have basic multi-disciplinary knowledge; comfortable working as a consultant in a client environment.
• Strong stakeholder management experience.

Preferred But Not Required

• Support project managers in maintaining effective and timely change management processes.
• Monitor and consolidate project plans; PMO experience.
• Knowledge or experience using PowerBI.

We offer equality, diversity, and inclusion statements as part of our commitments, including accessibility and agile working. If you need reasonable adjustments to apply or attend an interview, contact reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com.

Benefits

• Pension matched up to 7%
• Life insurance
• An annual professional institution subscription
• Continuous development opportunities
• Agile/flexible working
• Enhanced parental leave and shared parental leave policies
• Annual bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits (buy/sell annual leave, cycle to work, interest-free season ticket loans)
• Wellbeing support and resources
• Access to Advanced Employee Networks for LGBTQ+, race/ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities
• Opportunity to contribute to social outcomes

Location(s): London, Manchester, Reading, Birmingham, Moor Row, Glasgow, Liverpool, Bristol.

Contract Type: Permanent

Work Pattern: Full Time

Discipline: Project controls

Job Ref: 11156

Recruiter Contact: Sacha Kelly

Equal opportunity statement: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We encourage applications from all backgrounds.