Project Controls Manager

Location/s:
Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Reading, Cumbria, Manchester

Recruiter contact:
Sacha Kelly

Mott Mac Donald 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.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee‑owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.

Whatever your ambition, Mott Mac Donald is where people come to be brilliant.

Mott Mac Donald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers project, programme and commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation and health and care sectors.

APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, covering programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting, education and health and care management.

Our specialist advisory teams offer transformational services that support our core project, programme and commercial offering, addressing business needs such as climate change, estimating and cost intelligence, health, safety and wellbeing, land advisory, planning PMO, quality management and risk management.

Mott Mac Donald is seeking a talented Project Controls Manager to join our growing team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering purpose-driven PMO and Controls services across a diverse portfolio of infrastructure and built environment projects — including major global programmes.

• Analytical skills to prepare and critically evaluate performance measures (incl. earned value) and trends across multiple datasets
• Ability to focus on key issues, and drive out mitigating or recovery actions across the project
• Good people management and task facilitation skills
• Experience of implementing robust project controls processes and toolsets in relevant industries

• Due to the nature of this role, offers may be conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of security clearance
• A background working on large scale infrastructure projects in sectors including, but not limited to, water, transport, nuclear, defence
• Educated to degree level and/or hold a project controls or management qualification (e.g. APMG Planning and Controls, EVM, PMQ, Prince2)
• Flexibility to travel and work in different sectors and clients
• Risk management and reporting including the use of ARM
• Knowledge and proficiency with Primavera (P6) or Microsoft Project and/or other planning and resourcing software
• Create and maintain project schedules that support and align with project requirements
• Reduce uncertainty on projects by adapting project methodology
• Project reporting including monitoring of KPIs
• Undertake project reviews
• Able to coordinate and work with other teams and have basic multi-disciplinary knowledge; comfortable working as a consultant within a client environment
• Strong stakeholder management experience

• Support project managers in maintaining effective and timely change management processes
• Monitor and consolidate project plans
• PMO experience
• Knowledge or and experience using PowerBI

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