Senior Project Controls Manager

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

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
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About the Business Unit
Mott Mac Donald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors. We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients’ key challenges, combining our world‑leading project expertise with unrivaled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services. APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management.

Senior Project Controls Manager – Key Responsibilities

• Analytical skills to prepare and critically evaluate performance measures (inc. 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

Required for the position of Senior Project Controls Manager

• 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
• Experience in designing, mobilising and leading large project, programme and/or portfolio management functions
• 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

Preferred but not required

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

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

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