Project Controls Manager in England

The Project Controls Manager will be ultimately responsible for establishing the budget loaded programme, monitoring, control and reporting systems to comply with the Contract and Works Information, and to facilitate the successful delivery of a major project. Ensure effective execution of Project Controls on the project in accordance with company procedures to achieve best practice project administration which delivers close project control and accurate project forecasting.

Key Responsibilities

• Schedule development and management to ensure the WBS can be aligned to the reporting requirements.
• Advising the team on resource planning and management.
• Earned value management including but not limited to SPI/CPI.
• Project reporting in accordance with the contractual & Governance requirements to the client and the company.
• Development and production of reports on progress, critical paths, resources, earned value, and schedule risks.
• Input into the capture and monitoring of project risks, issues, mitigations and resolution.
• Lead technical / programme presentations and negotiations with clients, partners and suppliers.
• Managing Project Control Engineer(s) and other staff as appropriate.
• Processes and statutory requirements as they affect the company's operations and ensure that the requirements, as applicable within their discipline, are implemented on the project.

Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• Project Management experience (as part of a team).
• Numeracy and ability to create and use Excel spreadsheets and understand the potential of the tools available.
• Experience and ability and motivation to work both in teams and individually.
• Strong Communication skills with the team and other project stakeholders, both interpersonal and with the written word.

Desirable

• Experience in use of Power BI, P6 and other Project Control software (PRISM, iTWO etc).

Qualifications Desirable

• Civil or other engineering degree, or Project Control specific qualifications.

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery.

Our culture and values underpin everything we do. Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase. We do share individual feedback following an interview. A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.