Senior Project Controls Manager

Overview

Position Summary

Project Controls Leadership

• Lead the project controls strategy and implementation for utility compound programs.
• Develop and maintain integrated project controls plans, aligning schedule, cost, risk, change, and reporting processes with corporate and client requirements.
• Provide expert guidance to project managers, engineers, and commercial teams on project controls best practices.
• Ensure consistency and standardization of project controls procedures across all contracts and work packages.

Planning & Scheduling

• Establish, review, and approve baseline schedules in collaboration with planning engineers and project leads.
• Integrate multiple contractor and internal schedules into a single program-level master schedule.
• Monitor schedule performance, analyze critical paths, float, and interfaces between utility compounds and wider network works.
• Lead schedule risk analysis and scenario planning to assess and mitigate potential delays.
• Review contractors’ recovery plans and assess their viability.

Cost Management & Forecasting

• Develop and manage project budgets, cash flow forecasts, and cost control frameworks for utility compounds.
• Oversee cost tracking, commitment control, and monthly cost/value reconciliations.
• Lead cost forecasting and estimate-at-completion reviews, ensuring alignment with schedule and risk.
• Identify cost variances, trends, and opportunities for savings; recommend corrective and optimizing measures.

Change & Risk Management

• Set up and manage robust change control processes, including impact assessments on scope, time, cost, and risk.
• Chair or support change control boards, ensuring timely review, approval, and documentation of changes.
• Establish and maintain project risk registers, facilitating risk identification, qualitative/quantitative assessment, and mitigation planning.
• Coordinate schedule and cost risk analyses and integrate results into forecasts and management reporting.

Performance Measurement & Reporting

• Implement earned value management or equivalent performance measurement techniques.
• Define and monitor KPIs for schedule adherence, cost performance, productivity, and change/risk effectiveness.
• Produce clear, concise monthly and ad‑hoc project controls reports for senior management, clients, and stakeholders.
• Provide early warning on emerging issues and propose data‑driven mitigation and recovery strategies.

Data, Systems & Governance

• Oversee configuration and use of project controls tools (e.g., Primavera P6, MS Project, cost management and reporting systems).
• Ensure data integrity, version control, and alignment between planning, cost, and reporting systems.
• Develop and maintain project controls procedures, templates, and standards tailored to utility compound delivery.
• Support internal and external audits, ensuring compliance with company governance and client requirements.

Stakeholder & Interface Management

• Act as the primary point of contact for project controls matters with clients, consultants, contractors, and internal leadership.
• Coordinate interfaces between utility compounds and related packages (transmission/distribution, MEP systems, building works, enabling works).
• Present project status, trends, and recommendations in steering committees, progress meetings, and executive reviews.

Team Leadership & Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of planners, cost engineers, risk analysts, and reporting specialists.
• Allocate resources effectively across projects and phases, ensuring adequate coverage for critical milestones.
• Promote a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing within the project controls function.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Quantity Surveying, or a related field.
• 15 years experience in project controls with at least 5 – 10 years on major construction or infrastructure projects, with significant exposure to utilities or industrial compounds.
• Demonstrated experience leading project controls on complex, multi‑contract programs from initiation through closeout.
• Strong understanding of planning, cost control, risk management, change control, and EVM principles.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Project Management, Engineering, or Business.
• Professional certification such as , , , , or equivalent.
• Experience in power / utilities (substations, utility hubs, process plants, or similar compound-type developments).
• Experience with standard forms of contract (FIDIC) and their implications for schedule and cost management.

Skills & Competencies

• Advanced proficiency in project planning software (e.g., Primavera P6, MS Project) and cost management tools.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to interpret complex datasets and derive actionable insights.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, able to convey complex project controls information to non‑specialists.
• Proven leadership, team management, and stakeholder management capabilities.
• High level of commercial awareness and understanding of how project controls influence contractual and commercial outcomes.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines.
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