Associate/Project Director

At Turner & Townsend, our award-winning Controls & Performance Team are focused on driving innovation, enhancing our client’s integrated controls capability, improving performance, and delivering better programme outcomes. We have a growing national team of Controls & Performance professionals. The breadth and scale of our team provides great opportunities to reach back and draw upon a vast pool of experience and expertise to enhance your knowledge and career. Our strong capability, discipline communities and varied client base provides a great opportunity to drive your career, supported by our career pathways.

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Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Controls Leader (Associate/Director Grade) to join our busy and expanding Energy & Natural Resources Team, who are undertaking a range of Controls & Performance duties on high-profile Projects/Programmes across the UK. Additionally, these roles will provide the opportunity to innovate, collaborate and learn from our experienced and award-winning Scope & Integration community and wider extensive Controls and Performance Network.

Key Responsibilities

Working with our major clients and Delivery Partners, you will be leading and integrating the delivery of Controls & Performance (Project Controls). You may be part of a wider delivery team or working independently with reach back support to experienced Controls & Performance professionals.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Leading cross-discipline teams of project controls professionals to deliver effective, consistent, assured and value-adding project controls services to our clients across diverse and complex programmes to support and drive delivery.
• Driving continuous improvement in project controls processes to create efficiency and increasing benefits to our clients.  
• Defining and implementing project controls approaches across the project, programme and portfolio levels allowing effective decision making at all levels.
• Defining and implementing effective governance and assurance processes around project controls products.
• Working with clients to develop relevant breakdown structure and support scope definitions.
• Defining scaled, tailored, and integrated approaches for project controls and documenting these (for example in a Project Control System Definition). 
• Defining the scope through the identification and management of exclusions, assumptions, interfaces, and dependencies, and coordinate the scope’s decomposition.
• Working with the Integrated Project Team to establish a robust, accurate Performance Measurement Baseline and manage the change control process.
• Working with Project and Commercial Management to establish the Supplier Project Controls contract requirements, and then collaborating with suppliers to integrate and analyse their performance data.
• Ensuring scope, cost, risk and schedule integration and alignment, and analyse performance data to provide delivery insight and facilitate delivery decisions.
• Training and coaching clients and less experienced team members on performance and reporting management processes and practices.
• Assuring the quality, accuracy, and integrity of the Project Controls Team’s output .   
• Undertaking line management activities including career development and performance management.   

Qualifications

Skills and behaviours

• Ability to work with Senior Management / Leadership members, guiding, mentoring and driving Performance Management and action within a complex project/programme environment.
• Ability to lead a team, responsible for defining an integrated Project Controls service on complex projects/programmes along with all associated processes & reports.
• Guide the delivery team on appropriate use of systems and tools (such as Power Bi and Excel) in relation to Integrated Project Controls, Performance Management, Analysis & Reporting.
• Excellent communicator, (both written and verbal), to liaise with the client, contractors, and designers.
• Works to make positive change happen by embracing challenges and opportunities for our clients.
• Effectively connects and communicates with people to collaborate to deliver our best work.
• Brings out the best in everyone by helping each other making the most of their potential through proactive collaboration and effective teamworking.
• Takes responsibility for the development of personal performance and core skill set.
• Works with empathy and treats everyone with care and respect to continue to make T&T a great place to work.
• A UK driving license or the ability to travel to client sites across the region, as required, is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in the application of Project Controls disciplines (Planning, Cost Estimation, Cost Management, Risk Management or Reporting) in multiple projects.  
• Practical experience of integrating Project Controls disciplines and the ability to assess the maturity of a team and ways of working.
• Experience in managing Stakeholders at all levels .
• Experience in using some Project Controls software and systems (Primavera P6, Active Risk Manager, Ecosys etc).
• A project controls related qualification (e.g. Project Planning & Controls) is desirable.  

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. 

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.

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

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

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