Project Controls Lead
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Responsibilities
- Identify and manage the current workload and pipeline for Project Controls on major projects and opportunities within P&B.
- Assist the PMO Lead to define the scope of, and best practice in, management of project controls and schedule management for P&B major projects and identify the most effective way to deliver these services.
- Support the management of Project Controllers in the UK and our Global Capability Centres.
- Lead in approach to the development of skills and capabilities of individuals in Project Controls.
- Provide Project Controls on major projects and programmes.
- Being part of a team looking at new future facing project management solutions as part of our digital solutions.
- Collaboratively working with WSP disciplines including our sub-consultants and project partners on projects and in the delivery of new project management solutions.
- Develop a standardised approach to project controls on Major projects in conjunction with other SBUs.
Competencies and behaviours
- Fantastic collaborator and facilitator with excellent negotiation skills.
- Curious and inquisitive in nature, seeking to understand the root cause and context of presenting issues.
- Evidence of working in a fast paced and agile environment and really taking the lead for driving success goals into the delivery.
- Highly energised, confident and forward‑thinking individual with an ambitious drive for positive improvement.
- Pragmatic practitioner of NEC forms of contract, who can apply the contract in a collaborative and positive fashion.
- Skilled and impactful communicator with the ability to unpick and present complex problems in an understandable and simplified fashion.
Team & reporting
- You will be working on major projects across a range of sectors.
- You will be influential in shaping the strategic direction of our future project management strategies and solutions.
- You will be part of a team of likeminded individuals (the team is expected to rapidly grow, providing good career opportunities).
- The role will report to the team PMO lead.
- The main office location is flexible, with some expectation to travel occasionally to regional offices as the team and workload expand.
- This is a unique role allowing the successful candidate to work on live projects whilst shaping the future of project management within our business unit.
Desired qualifications
- An architectural, engineering or project management degree.
- Membership of a Professional Institution.
- Chartered Project Manager with the APM (or equivalent) or is working towards this.
- Experience of Project Controls and project management for complex multidisciplinary projects.
- Drive to grow a new service line within the property and buildings business unit.
- Demonstrates collaborative behaviours, ethics and promote health, safety and wellbeing within the team.
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