Associate Director - Energy & Natural...

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend, our award-winning Controls & Performance Team are focused on driving innovation, enhancing our clients integrated controls capability, improving performance, and delivering better programme outcomes. We have a growing national team of Controls & Performance professionals. The breadth and scale of our team provides great opportunities to reach back and draw upon a vast pool of experience and expertise to enhance your knowledge and career. Our strong capability, discipline communities and varied client base provides a great opportunity to drive your career, supported by our career pathways.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Controls Leader (Associate/Director Grade) to join our busy and expanding Energy & Natural Resources Team, who are undertaking a range of Controls & Performance duties on high-profile Projects/Programmes across the UK. Additionally, these roles will provide the opportunity to innovate, collaborate and learn from our experienced and award-winning Scope & Integration community and wider extensive Controls and Performance Network.

Key Responsibilities

• Working with our major clients and Delivery Partners, you will be leading and integrating the delivery of Controls & Performance (Project Controls).
• Leading cross-discipline teams of project controls professionals to deliver effective, consistent, assured and value-adding project controls services to our clients across diverse and complex programmes to support and drive delivery.
• Driving continuous improvement in project controls processes to create efficiency and increasing benefits to our clients.
• Defining and implementing project controls approaches across the project, programme and portfolio levels allowing effective decision making at all levels.
• Defining and implementing effective governance and assurance processes around project controls products.
• Working with clients to develop relevant breakdown structure and support scope definitions.
• Defining scaled, tailored, and integrated approaches for project controls and documenting these (for example in a Project Control System Definition).
• Defining the scope through the identification and management of exclusions, assumptions, interfaces, and dependencies, and coordinate the scope’s decomposition.
• Working with the Integrated Project Team to establish a robust, accurate Performance Measurement Baseline and manage the change control process.
• Working with Project and Commercial Management to establish the Supplier Project Controls contract requirements, and then collaborating with suppliers to integrate and analyse their performance data.
• Ensuring scope, cost, risk and schedule integration and alignment, and analyse performance data to provide delivery insight and facilitate delivery decisions.
• Training and coaching clients and less experienced team members on performance and reporting management processes and practices.
• Assuring the quality, accuracy, and integrity of the Project Controls Team’s output.
• Undertaking line management activities including career development and performance management.

Qualifications Skills and behaviours

• Ability to work with Senior Management / Leadership members, guiding, mentoring and driving Performance Management and action within a complex project/programme environment.
• Ability to lead a team, responsible for defining an integrated Project Controls service on complex projects/programmes along with all associated processes & reports.
• Guide the delivery team on appropriate use of systems and tools (such as Power Bi and Excel) in relation to Integrated Project Controls, Performance Management, Analysis & Reporting.
• Excellent communicator, (both written and verbal), to liaise with the client, contractors, and designers.
• Works to make positive change happen by embracing challenges and opportunities for our clients.
• Effectively connects and communicates with people to collaborate to deliver our best work.
• Brings out the best in everyone by helping each other making the most of their potential through proactive collaboration and effective teamworking.
• Takes responsibility for the development of personal performance and core skill set.
• Works with empathy and treats everyone with care and respect to continue to make T&T a great place to work.
• A UK driving license or the ability to travel to client sites across the region, as required, is essential.

Qualifications and experience

• Experience in the application of Project Controls disciplines (Planning, Cost Estimation, Cost Management, Risk Management or Reporting) in multiple projects.
• Practical experience of integrating Project Controls disciplines and the ability to assess the maturity of a team and ways of working.
• Experience in managing Stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience in using some Project Controls software and systems (Primavera P6, Active Risk Manager, Ecosys etc).
• A project controls related qualification (e.g. Project Planning & Controls) is desirable.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.