Senior Project Controls Manager in London

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-leading design, engineering, and project management organization. We connect people, data, and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems.

Flexible and remote working are central to our culture. We value your transferable skills and potential and are ready to invest in your development and progression.

Your workload will be diverse and exciting. You'll support project teams on niche and high-profile schemes within complex infrastructure, from evaluating project time, cost, and quality targets to leading communication and monitoring project governance control for successful delivery. You'll work across a range of projects in the Transportation, Infrastructure and Energy sectors.

Your role:

• Establish, monitor, and manage the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) and periodically collate KPIs & progress data related to time, cost, risk, change and quality to report to senior leaders of the project.
• Develop and implement an appropriate performance measurement system such as earned value management and integrate it into periodic reporting.
• Develop, improve where required and implement the change control processes of the project.
• Chair and/or facilitate the necessary project level change forums, escalation change papers that require additional approvals and ensure all choices are enacted within the change control system and toolsets.
• Co-ordinate multiple contributors to conduct change impact assessments and support the Programme Management team in driving agreement on 'best for Programme' decisions.
• Lead periodic and ad-hoc reporting, taking ownership for its quality, accuracy, and robustness, and ensure the monthly project review pack is compiled and presented to the management team on time.
• Integrate schedule, cost, scope, quality, change and risk data to provide a full picture of project health and provide interpretation of the data contained in monthly reporting pack to support prompt decision making.
• Work closely with Planning, cost management and risk functions and deputise for Project Controls lead to improve/sustain operating policies, procedures & processes, and ensure its proper application by the Project Controls team.
• Support the leadership team by providing specialist advice and technical knowledge to resolve delays, issues, and other challenges throughout the project.
• Undertake maturity assessment to identify areas of improvement and implement change initiatives to improve maturity of project control functions in a project or programme environment.
• Where required, management of a Project Controls team.

About you:

• Excellent knowledge and proven hands-on experience of leading project controls functions within large, complex infrastructure or construction projects.
• Working knowledge of schedule management, cost management and risk management practices.
• Possess a strong aptitude to supervise schedule, cost, risk, reporting and change management activities.
• Experience in functional leadership of Project controls team and delivering results within a large-scale project environment.
• Ability to manage stakeholders and information flow in a matrix environment.
• Knowledge of transport, energy, major infrastructure, or construction projects (under NEC Forms of Contract).
• Project controls or project management qualification from APM or similar accrediting bodies.

Rewards & benefits:

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong – a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees.