Project Control Manager

Role overview

Project controls responsibilities

• Lead project controls across planning, cost, risk, change, forecasting, and reporting.
• Maintain an Integrated Master Schedule spanning design, procurement, construction, rail systems, testing and commissioning, and handover.
• Review contractor baseline schedules, updates, recovery programmes, and time-impact analyses.
• Monitor progress, critical paths, earned value, cost performance, cash flow, and forecasts.
• Create dashboards, KPIs, monthly reports, look-aheads, and early-warning indicators.
• Support delay, claims, and Extension of Time assessments.
• Lead risk management and mitigation tracking; manage controls personnel and reporting accuracy.

Required qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• 13+ years of relevant experience, including significant controls experience on major railway, metro, or transportation infrastructure projects.
• At least 7 years of rail design and/or construction experience.
• Previous Project Controls Manager or equivalent experience on a major rail or transportation programme.
• Advanced knowledge of Primavera P6, integrated scheduling, cost control, earned value management, forecasting, and risk management.
• Strong experience reviewing Design & Build contractor programmes and recovery schedules.
• Strong leadership, analytical, stakeholder-management, and reporting skills; excellent written and spoken English.

Desired qualifications

• A relevant master’s degree is desirable.
• PMP, PMI-SP, AACE, RICS, APM, or equivalent professional certification is desirable.
• Previous PMC or client-side experience on major rail programmes is desirable.