SRO Project Control Manager

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SRO Project Control Manager

Yorkshire Water – Water Utility Company based in Yorkshire, England.

Buttershaw, Bradford (Hybrid: 2-3 office days weekly; pending relocation to Leeds LS10 from Summer 2026).

Permanent, Full-time, 37 hours per week, Monday–Friday.

Senior leadership role within the Asset Delivery PMO Team, responsible for establishing and managing a holistic and scalable approach to Project, Program, and Business Risk Management for the Direct Procurement for Customers (DPC) programme.

• Lead the DPC Project Control team in developing and implementing an integrated performance approach, ensuring financial forecasts, schedules, and reports are aligned.
• Drive application of proportionate project control processes across the DPC programme to meet RAPID and YW goals.
• Lead and develop programme and project health reporting, providing appropriate challenge and support in generating solutions to improve performance.
• Facilitate working sessions with RAPID, other utility companies and YW stakeholders to agree success criteria of Project Control functions.
• Work with the DPC leadership to roll out and monitor compliance with the project control processes, including financial forecasting.
• Coordinate programme status reports and measure progress of key metrics, ensuring accurate data.
• Collaborate closely with all DPC and YW stakeholders to ensure consistency, best practice and continuous improvement is realised.
• Proactively identify potential threats to project/programme performance.
• Develop best practice and innovation, sharing learning with the Asset Delivery PMO to drive maturity and embedment.

• Experience working on PIF & Giga projects in a PMO or EPC environment across the full life cycle.
• Detailed knowledge of project control best practices and procedures.
• Proven track record in project delivery from concept to handover.
• Practitioner or certified user of Prima‑Vera, Cost Management tools, SQRA Risk systems.
• Ability to analyse and articulate key messages from project performance data.
• Experience developing and implementing detailed reports.
• Experience implementing risk management and/or change management processes.
• Experience tracking and reporting project cost profiles and knowledge of financial reporting principles.
• Excellent communication and people‑leadership skills.
• Ability to challenge undesired behaviours appropriately.
• Good IT skills and the ability to use multiple systems.
• Ability to collaborate and build relationships across wider teams.

• Competitive salary, depending on experience, £62,700 - £94,050.
• Company car lease/allowance scheme (£4,980 cash allowance).
• Annual incentive related bonus (up to 15% of annual salary).
• Private health care (self and partner, if applicable).
• Attractive pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution).
• Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays plus an extra wellness day.
• Comprehensive benefits package: health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover.
• Retail savings scheme.
• Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more.

We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to everyone. If you have an accessibility need, disability or condition that requires changes to the recruitment process, please include this information in your application and we will discuss reasonable adjustments.

We may start interviewing and close the position earlier based on the response. Please apply as soon as possible to be considered. Successful candidates will undergo pre‑employment checks (Basic Disclosure Check and, if applicable, a Counter‑Terrorist or Security Check clearance) and a medical questionnaire. All roles are subject to further medicals when required.

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