Project Controls Engineer - Defence (Construction)

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions. Turner & Townsend are leaders in professional services to the Defence, Data Centres, Life Sciences, Pharma, R&D facilities, Industrial, Manufacturing, Distribution & Logistics sectors globally.

Important: Due to the sensitive nature of these projects, you must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain UK MoD Security Clearance (SC).

Job Objectives

As an experienced controls & performance professional you will establish the required processes, templates and tools, agree the baseline for cost and schedule, monitor performance, and incorporate the impacts of risk, opportunities and change in a controlled manner.

Responsibilities

• Identify trends and root causes of deviations against the baseline using lead and lag indicators, recommend remedial actions to drive best value for the client.
• Lead the evaluation of the project's time, cost, and quality targets, applying governance controls as necessary to enable successful delivery.
• Cooperate with a remote team of cost managers responsible for reaching an agreed, market-tested cost baseline and ensuring the client receives value for money.
• Guide and influence the general contractor, ensuring they progress in line with schedule and within agreed cash flow parameters.
• Act as key point of contact to the client, overcoming delivery and commercial issues whilst preparing formal and ad‑hoc reports focusing on time, cost and quality targets.
• Control costs with knowledge of conceptual estimating, funding stage gates, basic contingency principals, procurement principals.
• Create and/or work within a cost report, summarizing financials in an executive level dashboard.
• Understand change management principals, lead agreed change management process and workflow, providing a platform for adding/tracking/monitoring/approving change.
• Coordinate and lead planning sessions and workshops with clients and vendors to compile the master project/programme schedule, agree baselines and a critical path.
• Understand procurement principals, collate lead times from vendors and client into the master schedule, communicate the prioritisation of ordering materials and equipment to meet scheduled install dates.
• Work closely with the client to define vendor schedule requirements.
• Actively participate in project team risk evaluations, incorporating defined risks into Monte Carlo to output quantitative impacts to the overall project cost and schedule.
• Work closely with the project team to stay informed on status of project changes, incorporating and communicating these to the project team to allow approvals in the change management process.
• Hold vendors accountable for required schedule updates and reporting to maintain timely and accurate updates of the master schedule, ensuring that schedules adhere to the defined process and quality expectations.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in project controls coordination in all phases of the project lifecycle including program, risk and reporting.
• Demonstrated experience in determining corrective actions or recommendations based on facts and figures and critically evaluating information and data from various sources.
• Advanced skills in MS Office and Primavera P6.
• A commitment to providing excellent service.
• Reliability with the ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
• Strong time‑management skills, quick thinking and ability to meet project deadlines.
• Highly motivated and driven with a passion for delivering to clients and the ability to work independently.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which must be adhered to where applicable. 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.