Overview

Senior Project Controls Manager role at Mott MacDonald. Locations: 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 with a focus on delivering value to clients and society. We are an employee-owned business committed to an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute.

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 out mitigating or recovery actions across the project.
• Good people management and task facilitation skills.
• Experience of implementing robust project controls processes and toolsets in relevant industries.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project controls for a portfolio of infrastructure and built environment projects, including major global programmes.
• Support the delivery of purpose-driven PMO and controls services across projects in various sectors.
• Coordinate with project teams and stakeholders to ensure project schedules and reporting align with requirements.
• Undertake project reviews and monitor KPIs; provide risk and issue management input.
• Contribute to the planning, scheduling, cost management, and reporting activities across projects.

Qualifications and experience

• Due to the nature of the role, offers may be conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of security clearance.
• Experience on large-scale infrastructure projects in sectors such as 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 various clients.
• Risk management and reporting experience, including the use of ARM.
• Proficiency with Primavera (P6) or Microsoft Project and/or other planning and resourcing software.
• Ability to create and maintain project schedules aligned with project requirements.
• Ability to reduce uncertainty on projects by adapting project methodology.
• Experience in project reporting, including monitoring KPIs, and conducting project reviews.
• Strong collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and client-facing consulting experience.
• Strong stakeholder management experience.

Preferred but not required

• PMO experience and support for change management processes.
• Monitoring and consolidation of project plans.
• PowerBI knowledge or experience.

Other information

Equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the heart of our business. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds and abilities.

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.