Project Controls Director

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting the Project to Financial Close
• Own the project controls workstream (cost, schedule, change and risk reporting) and ensure it delivers the information project leadership and sponsors need to reach a robust, well-evidenced Final Investment Decision.
• Maintain overall responsibility for project cost and schedule status, coordinating inputs from engineering, procurement, commercial and finance teams into one consistent, defensible picture.
• Track and report on the FID critical path and decision calendar, proactively flagging risks, dependencies and cost or schedule pressures that could delay Financial Close.
• Support the Commercial and Procurement Director and Business Case Manager with robust cost and schedule inputs into the investment case, financial model and board papers.
• Cost Control
• Manage project budget and cost control strategy, including DEVEX variation and change management.
• Lead all aspects of project cost control: budget setting, cost breakdown structures, commitments, accruals, forecasting, variance analysis and change control.
• Own the project cost baseline and ensure disciplined change management, with every contract variation, scope change and claim properly evaluated and reflected in the forecast.
• Provide early warning of cost overruns or emerging risks to budget, with clear mitigation recommendations, ahead of them becoming board-level issues.
• Work closely with the Financial Advisor and finance team to ensure cost data feeds cleanly into the project financial model and sensitivity analysis.
• Planning & Schedule Control
• Maintain and continuously assure the integrated project schedule, ensuring PMO, Commercial, HSE, Consenting, Stakeholder and Technical workstreams are properly sequenced and interdependencies are visible.
• Run regular schedule risk analysis and scenario planning, particularly around contracting strategy and long-lead procurement decisions.
• Team Management & Leadership
• Build, lead and develop the project controls team, setting clear standards, ways of working and reporting cadence across cost and planning functions.
• Manage the performance, workload and development of direct reports, and act as a credible, visible leader across a matrixed, multi-disciplinary project team.
• Manage relationships with third-party cost and planning consultants, ensuring their outputs meet the standard required for lender and board scrutiny.
• Governance & Reporting (including Risk and Change Management)
• Produce regular, board-ready cost and schedule status reporting for project leadership, the Blue Gem board, sponsor representatives and lenders.
• Maintain the project controls risk register in line with the wider Erebus commercial and procurement risk register.
• Oversee risk and change management and ensure the risk and change management registers are current and applied.
• Ensure project controls activity complies with sponsor SBE governance and approval requirements.
• Core responsibilities include financial controls, change management, programme management, document control and IT support, with especial emphasis on cost control and risk management in the short term.
• Experience and Qualifications:
• Required:
• Relevant degree in engineering, quantity surveying, project management, or a related discipline with at least 10 years’ relevant experience
• At least 6 years’ experience in the offshore wind sector with PMO leadership experience
• Demonstrable experience leading project controls (cost and/or planning) on at least one major project, ideally through to Final Investment Decision, in offshore wind, renewables or large-scale infrastructure
• Strong, hands-on cost control experience — budgeting, forecasting, variance and change management on complex, multi-contractor capital projects
• Proven experience building and managing a project controls team, including direct line management responsibility.
• Strong working knowledge of planning and scheduling tools and integrated project schedules for large capital projects.
• Ability to communicate cost and schedule status clearly and credibly to senior stakeholders, including boards, sponsors and lenders.
• Experience of offshore wind project development in the UK
• Excellent organisation skills with the ability to manage own workload, meet timescales and coordinate a number of external and internal stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to enable effective discussion and transfer of information between contractors, team members and other stakeholders
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)
• The technical skills to understand complex offshore operations and the ability to exchange with and understand subject experts
• Ability to work as a member of a large, multidisciplinary and international team
• Ability to use Microsoft Office and project management software e.g. Primavera P6, Sarfan
• Ability to create and communicate complex technical information clearly.
• Your application:
• Applications for this role will close on 26 October 2026. Please note that applications received after this date will not be considered. We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of suitable applications are received; however, the vacancy will remain open for a minimum of five days.