Project Controls Specialists (all levels) - Performance & Reporting

Turner & Townsend Plc.
Manchester
1 week ago
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Project Controls Specialists (all levels) - Performance & Reporting

  • Full-time
  • Department: Infrastructure

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions. We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world. Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Our PMO Northwest team is looking to expand its Controls community. We are looking to welcome passionate and ambitious candidates across all our professional, senior professional and managerial grades who will support our early careers, grow into leadership roles, and bring their skills and expertise to our communities of practice, fostering our values with specific emphasis toBringing out the best in Everyone.

With exciting growth in region including new Major Programmes, Projects and Clients, we’re looking for flexible and mobile Planning and Scheduling / Performance Reporting / Risk Management candidates to deliver services in our local region. Travel within the Northwest region is required dependent on the project and can be discussed further during the recruitment process. You will have an excellent opportunity to work across a breadth of sectors including Power, Water, Rail, Defence, Nuclear, Local Authority, and Shipyards.

Working alongside project delivery teams as part of a wider reporting & performance management team or independently with reach back support to experienced performance & reporting professionals, responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

  1. Tailoring reporting processes to meet the client’s needs and aligning with best practice.
  2. Deliver to performance and reporting management plans for our clients based on project requirements, maturity, and best practice.
  3. Promoting the benefits and requirements of Performance Reporting & Analytics within the project and programme team.
  4. Implementing, administering, and maintaining reporting systems and procedures to track project controls performance.
  5. Working with the Integrated Project Team to establish a robust, integrated, well structured, accurate Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) and support the change control process.
  6. Roll out reporting calendars to ensure a consistent drumbeat of performance data and sufficient time to assure and analyse outputs.
  7. Work with project controls to define requirements and data flows for information management systems and supporting our digital teams in their implementation.
  8. Lead the development, analysis and maintenance of corporate datasets.
  9. Provide guidance and advice on data quality issues to a wide variety of data providers.
  10. Lead material preparation for governance through projects, programmes, portfolios and the enterprise.
  11. Identify performance recovery recommendations for relevant stakeholders and management to support effective decision making.
  12. Support the project team develop, embed KPIs and contributes to the development of the performance measures dictionary.
  13. Developing project performance reports and dashboards, providing recommendations to relevant stakeholders and management to support effective decision making.
  14. Lead preparation of presentations and other materials for client governance forums and performance reviews.
  15. Contribute towards our national and regional performance & reporting communities including Communities of Practice.
  16. Training and coaching clients and less experienced team members on performance and reporting management processes and practices.

Experience in a project or programme environment is essential. An understanding of how other aspects of Project Controls (Scheduling, Cost Control, Change Control) interact with Reporting is required. Demonstrable track record in identifying reporting and data requirements and documenting these using the appropriate types of tools and documentation is necessary. Awareness of Project Controls software (Primavera P6, Active Risk Manager, Ecosys etc) is desirable. Experience in using data analysis tools (e.g. Power BI) is needed. An understanding of data, data architecture and data models is also required.

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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