Senior Project Controller

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 incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

About the business unit

The Energy unit delivers services to clients globally across several sectors including hydropower, nuclear, waste, renewable generation and transmission & distribution networks. Together we provide integrated engineering and project management services across the project lifecycle – from concept and design to construction and operations, to decommissioning or repowering and life extension. Together with our clients, we’re helping to deliver the energy transition globally.

Overview of the role

Mott MacDonald is looking for a Senior Project Controller to join our Energy Unit within the Nuclear, Defence and Civil division. You will play a key role in supporting the successful delivery of complex and high-profile projects within the nuclear sector, working collaboratively with integrated, multi-disciplinary teams. This role offers the opportunity to influence project outcomes, apply best-practice cost control, and contribute to safe, sustainable project delivery, while developing your career within a globally respected consultancy known for technical excellence and a strong people culture.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Lead the development and application of cost control strategies aligned to client requirements and industry best practice
• Establish, implement and maintain effective cost control systems to manage budgets, commitments, actuals and forecasts
• Develop and manage robust Performance Measurement Baselines (PMB), supporting integrated change control processes
• Produce and maintain Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS) aligned with WBS, work packages and control accounts
• Integrate cost estimates with schedules to support accurate time-phased budgets and earned value performance
• Prepare and manage accruals to ensure timely and accurate reporting of Actual Cost of Work Performed (ACWP)
• Maintain credible and well-evidenced project forecasts, including Estimates to Complete (ETC)
• Manage cost control and reporting in accordance with NEC or FIDIC contract requirements
• Engage with the supply chain to validate cost data, understand variances and improve forecast accuracy
• Provide clear, insightful cost performance reporting to project and senior leadership teams

Candidate specification

Essential:

• Professional experience in Project Controls / Cost Engineering / Cost Control across the full project lifecycle
• Strong knowledge of Earned Value Management (EVM), cost forecasting and performance analysis
• Experience working within integrated project teams on complex infrastructure or energy projects
• Ability to influence and guide cost control processes within complex project or programme environments
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to engage confidently with senior stakeholders
• Demonstrated leadership behaviours, including coaching and developing others in a collaborative environment
• Understanding of how cost control interfaces with planning, risk, reporting and change control
• Membership of, or working towards membership of, a relevant professional body (e.g. APM, PMI)

Please be advised that offers for this role are conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance.

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Employee Ownership

Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success. Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses. As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution. Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future. For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities. Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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