Project Controls Manager

AWE

20h•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Project Controls Manager at the Future Material Campus, you'll be part of a team working on one of the UK's most complex infrastructure programmes. This role is crucial to national security, and you'll be joining at a pivotal moment as the UK government invests significantly in improving our infrastructure. We are looking for someone with a high level of experience of Project Controls including cost, budget, planning and estimating to join our Project Controls team at AWE Nuclear Security Technologies. In this role, you'll lead multi-functional Project Controls teams. You'll collaborate with Project Managers and Supply Chain to ensure the delivery of our projects and programmes. Your ability to engage, negotiate, and influence people across the business will be key to ensuring effective controls are in place to monitor progress, manage issues, and mitigate slippage.

Requirements

Professionally qualified with chartered or equivalent status
Success in a Project Controls environment on a major construction project
Delivering Controls in a major project/ programme environment, ideally within Defence, Life Sciences, Pharma, R&D facilities, Industrial, Manufacturing, Distribution & Logistics sectors
Mentoring and developing a multi-functional controls team
Meeting project deadlines
Adept with controls/ general software applications such as Primavera (P6), Power BI, Excel
Insight into engineering, procurement, contracts, construction processes
Knowledge of engineering and construction management
Development of project controls processes

Responsibilities

Managing risk, including ownership of qualitative and quantitative assessments to schedule predictability and cost.
Influencing and supporting project managers and procurement to ensure schedule momentum and cash flow KPIs.
Role modelling best practice in conceptual estimating, funding stage gates, basic contingency principles and procurement principles.
Coordinating and facilitating planning sessions and workshops to compile the master project/programme schedule baseline, ensuring an achievable duration.
Utilising your expertise in procurement schedules to create achievable lead times within the schedule.
Prioritising materials and equipment orders to meet scheduled install dates.
Influencing key stakeholders to facilitate sign-off of baseline and encouraging visibility of regular progress updates.
Introducing robust change processes, ensuring schedules, interfaces, cost, risk, and changes are managed appropriately.
Owning the change management process and workflow.
Highlighting trends and root causes of deviations against the baseline using lead and lag indicators and reporting effective remedial actions.

Benefits

9-day working fortnight – meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).

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