Project Controls Manager

Overview

• Planning & Scheduling

• Developing, maintaining, and updating the Integrated Master Schedule in Primavera P6, ensuring alignment with approved baselines, contract milestones, and project delivery objectives.
• Reviewing and critically assessing Contractor detailed programmes, recovery plans, and look-ahead schedules on a regular basis.
• Performing critical path analysis, float analysis, and what-if scenario modelling to support strategic project decision-making.
• Monitoring progress against planned activities using earned value management principles and schedule performance indicators.
• Supporting the Project Director and project leadership team with schedule forecasting, mitigation planning, and programme optimization strategies.

Progress Monitoring & Reporting

• Preparing accurate weekly and monthly progress reports, including S-curves, histograms, dashboards, KPI tracking, and narrative analysis for Client and senior management reporting.
• Monitoring trade-by-trade progress, productivity performance, critical activities, and milestone achievement.
• Identifying early warnings, delays, risks, and performance concerns while developing mitigation measures and recovery recommendations.
• Maintaining live project dashboards and reporting tools to track schedule performance, manpower trends, resource utilization, and critical project metrics.
• Participating in executive reporting, technical workshops, and project review meetings.

Change, Risk & Commercial Support

• Assessing the impact of variations, delays, disruptions, and scope changes on project schedules and contractual milestones.
• Supporting the preparation and review of Extension of Time (EOT) claims, delay analyses, and associated schedule narratives.
• Integrating risk management activities into the project schedule, including mitigation tracking, contingency planning, and schedule recovery initiatives.
• Coordinating with commercial and contracts teams to ensure alignment between programme reporting, cost reporting, and contractual obligations.
• Supporting value engineering exercises and interface coordination activities across multiple project packages.

Document Control & Systems Management

• Ensuring all planning and controls deliverables are properly submitted, tracked, approved, and archived through Aconex and other project systems.
• Maintaining accurate records of schedule baselines, revisions, approvals, and reporting documentation.
• Ensuring compliance with project controls procedures, reporting standards, and Client requirements.

Team Leadership & Stakeholder Coordination

• Leading and mentoring planning and project controls teams including planners, schedulers, reporting engineers, and data analysts.
• Coordinating closely with project management, construction, engineering, commercial, and Client teams to ensure accurate and timely reporting.
• Attending and contributing to key project meetings including progress meetings, technical coordination workshops, risk reviews, and executive reporting sessions.
• Supporting the development of project controls best practices, reporting systems, and continuous improvement initiatives across the project.