In Project Controls, you will play a key role in supporting Project Management Office (PMO) and Project Controls teams to implement and deliver a wide range of PMO and Project Controls services to support assigned projects.
Responsibilities
- Supporting administration of PMO and Project Controls processes on a project operating under supervision and mentorship of more senior professionals.
- Assisting with the preparation of monthly reports as required.
- Contributing to the facilitation and delivery of performance reporting and reviews.
- Assisting in the development of PMO and Project Controls methodologies, such as Earned Value Management.
- Contributing to the delivery of all PMO and Planning disciplines, such as Risk Management and Planning.
- Ensuring that all PMO and Project Controls activity is aligned to the Mace Control Centre.
- Working towards completing a five‑year Level 6 Project Controls Professional apprenticeship, achieving a BSc (Hons) Global Degree in Project Controls and gaining professional membership of a relevant association.
- Using project‑controls related software and IT systems for tasks such as planning and scheduling, cost management, cost and risk analysis, estimating, progress and performance monitoring and reporting; selecting the appropriate software package.
- Applying and integrating software and IT systems to enhance data processing, including the use of BIM.
- Interpreting technical information from different sources, identifying the correct data and elements to monitor and control, and reviewing technical project documents (e.g., scopes of work and engineering drawings).
- Developing and critiquing coding and breakdown structures to ensure they provide a basis for project control.
- Leading the creation of comprehensive project‑control plans and reporting frameworks that identify contextual elements to track and working assumptions to use, in order to generate meaningful control data and ensure deliverables are achievable and aligned to project objectives.
- Preparing the strategy for the development and maintenance of the baseline for control, taking into account scope definition, schedule, risk and cost, and ensuring alignment between cost and schedule using the coding structures.
- Implementing and enforcing project‑control change procedures, judging against evidence, deciding if a change is within or outside scope, evaluating its impact on profitability, and recommending or implementing the change appropriately.
- Ensuring that project‑control work complies with HSE regulations and requirements, applying knowledge of HSE, and ensuring schedules and resources meet regulatory requirements (including CDM and safety) to enable safe project delivery.
- Identifying opportunities within projects to contribute to net zero and environmental sustainability, and taking action to minimise environmental impact.
- Undertaking project‑control work in accordance with ethics, codes of conduct and duty of care.
- Providing data assurance by challenging, verifying and validating data reports to ensure integrity, timeliness and technical appropriateness.
- Identifying stakeholders, including those involved in estimates, schedules and plans, and adapting communication style and method to gather necessary information.
- Conducting quantitative and qualitative risk analysis, leading regular reviews of risks and risk register assumptions to support effective risk management.
- Identifying opportunities to use data‑analysis techniques to improve project‑control delivery, such as automating repetitive processes or enhancing data quality.
- Managing commercial matters, including identifying and applying subcontractor/supplier deliverables to project control, monitoring performance and storing content to support legal and contractual requirements.
- Creating project‑control content to inform tenders, evaluating invitations to tender and bid responses.
- Preparing an estimating framework, making recommendations on estimate classes to meet project needs at various stages.
- Using an evidence‑based approach to select suitable estimating techniques, undertake estimate assurance, cost‑risk analysis and prepare detailed basis‑of‑estimate narratives with risks, assumptions, uncertainties and contingencies.
- Preparing planning and scheduling strategic frameworks and recommending different levels of plans and schedules (e.g., milestones or detailed engineering schedules) to meet project needs.
- Using an evidence‑based approach to create credible, achievable control schedules, applying assumptions, contingency and undertaking schedule assurance and risk analysis.
- Modeling potential efficiency gains against time, cost and quality, reviewing and making recommendations.
- Applying cost‑engineering practice to recast estimates, set budget baselines, select proven cost‑control techniques, capture commitment and expenditure data, and integrate cost and schedule data for cash‑flow projections and value‑of‑work assessments.
- Monitoring and controlling project progress and performance by establishing progress baselines and selecting appropriate analysis techniques (e.g., earned value analysis) suitable for project size and complexity.
- Identifying variations from the progress baseline, assessing potential impact, and explaining variations to project, portfolio or programme managers.
- Communicating and justifying conclusions and recommendations (e.g., for project recovery) to influence key stakeholders and support informed decision‑making.
- Mentoring and coaching team members such as Project Controls Technicians, steering across project‑control functions in accordance with organisational core values and guidelines.
- Applying continuous improvement approaches, using emerging technologies and lessons learned from previous projects.
Qualifications
- GCSE: 5 GCSEs, including Maths & English (or equivalent) (grade 4 or above). Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience; the apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem‑solving skills
- Logical thinking
- Team working
- Creativity
Benefits and Compensation
- £22,000 per year
- Permanent role from the moment you join
- Taxable travel allowance to cover expenses between home, workplace and place of study
- Salary increases as you progress and complete the development programme
- Training course: Project Controls Professional (Level 6)
- Check minimum wage rates
- Typical hours Monday – Friday, 9 am – 5 pm (hours may vary due to project demands)
- 38 hours a week
- Start date: Monday 7 September 2026
- Duration: 4 years
Company Information
At Mace, we are global experts in shaping the built environment. From development and consultancy, to construction and operations, we connect expertise across the entire property lifecycle to help our clients, people, communities and society achieve more than they believe is possible. You can see our impact everywhere: from skylines that form cities around the world to the infrastructure that communities depend on to live, work and play.
