Senior Project Controls Manager in England

Are you a passionate Senior Project Controls Manager interested to work in the oil and gas sector? Are you seeking a challenging opportunity for your career growth? Baker Hughes stands as a leading global energy technology company delivering innovative solutions that make energy safer, cleaner and more efficient across the entire value chain. Operating in more than 120 countries, the company blends deep industrial expertise with advanced engineering and digital technologies to support energy production, transformation and decarbonization.

As a Senior Project Controls Manager, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the overall project team, providing indirect leadership to those involved in project controls. You will be expected to build strong collaborative relationships with a wide range of stakeholders—including project teams, functional departments and customers—while actively contributing to the ongoing development and maturity of the Project Controls function.

As a Senior Project Controls Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Developing and maintaining the Project Controls Plan ensuring alignment with project objectives and overseeing associated procedures.
• Overseeing the Project Start-up on Execution projects.
• Serving as the primary point of contact for the Project Director, project team and customer regarding project cost, schedule and risk matters.
• Leading the integration of schedule, cost, scope, change and risk management processes across the project lifecycle.
• Supporting the Project Planning team in generating the project schedule against the Customer requirements including resource loading, critical path analysis and progress tracking.
• Overseeing the setup and operation of project controls systems, tools and interfaces to enable effective management and reporting.
• Engaging and interfacing with key internal and external stakeholders as required.
• Monitoring overall project progress, milestone achievement and identifying deviations from plan; providing performance forecasts and insights.
• Tracking and reporting on the project’s critical path offering early warnings of potential delays to the Project Director.
• Conducting budget vs. actual cost analysis in collaboration with finance managers and cost controllers to ensure accurate financial tracking.
• Ensuring all change requests are properly assessed and reflected in project budgets and schedules.
• Facilitating and leading major cost and schedule risk analysis workshops, both internally and with customers when needed.
• Ensuring project-level risk is managed in accordance with company standards and processes.
• Leading the reporting of project status and KPIs to senior management as part of the Project Governance framework.
• Capturing and implementing lessons learned to support continuous improvement across projects.

To be successful in this role you should have:

• Extensive experience in Project Controls on complex or major projects/programmes.
• Expert-level knowledge of Project Controls methodologies and practices.
• Demonstrated experience in applying and assuring governance across large-scale projects.
• Advanced proficiency in tools including MSP, Oracle applications (P6, Unifier, ERP), Active Risk Manager (ARM) or other Risk software, Risk Analyser software and Power BI.

This role can offer flexible working patterns. One of our core values as a business is collaboration and, as such, while flexible work options are available, there is a benefit of having our teams co-located in one of our many offices in the United Kingdom.

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us and you can expect:

• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities
• Comprehensive private medical care options
• Safety net of life insurance and disability programs
• Tailored financial programs
• Additional elected or voluntary benefits

Required Experience: Manager

Key Skills:

• Business Development
• Project Management Methodology
• Project / Program Management
• PMBOK
• Waterfall
• Wastewater
• Construction Management
• Project Management
• Project Management Software
• Microsoft Project
• Budgeting
• Contracts

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1