Our client is a world-leading design, engineering, and project management organization. They are currently seeking a Senior Project Controls Manager to join their team in Birmingham.

Responsibilities of a Senior Project Controls Manager:

• Where required, Supervision and management of a Project Controls team. As an inspirational leader, you will set individuals' objectives, review performance, undertake appraisals, provide ongoing formal and informal feedback, and ensure all staff know what they must achieve and how they're performing against their objectives. You will be inspirational in creating an environment that allows empowered and creative team members to succeed.
  
  
• Developing and monitoring the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB).
  
  
• Agreeing on the progress measurement methodology with the contractor and ensuring timely submission of project actuals in a previously agreed format.
  
  
• Measuring current performance and predicting future performance of the project/programme using valid performance measurement techniques such as earned value management.
  
  
• Collating performance & progress data related to time, cost, risk, change and quality periodically, agreeing on and developing high quality, robust, accurate periodic reports for project/programme leaders and providing interpretation of the data in the report to support prompt making choices.
  
  
• Sustaining and improving planning, risk, cost control, change control management policies, procedures & processes, and ensuring its proper application by the project controls and delivery teams.
  
  
• Chairing and/or facilitating the necessary project/programme level change forums, escalating change papers with high level impact that require additional approvals and ensuring all choices are enacted within the change control system and toolsets.
  
  
• Advising project/programme leader by providing specialist advice and technical knowledge to resolve or mitigate delays, issues, and other challenges throughout the project.
  
  
• Undertaking self-assessment of procedural compliance, sharing lessons learned and best-practice within the wider Project Controls community.
  
  Requirements for Senior Project Controls Manager:
  
  
• Successful leadership with a proven track record of delivering results within a large-scale project environment.
  
  
• Exceptional skills and experience at managing stakeholders such as clients, senior leaders, and various colleagues in a matrix and line organization.
  
  
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present at programme or portfolio level forums or meetings to senior stakeholders.
  
  
• Proven expertise in a Project Management or Project Controls Management position, specifically within complex infrastructure projects across sectors such as transport, energy, defence, or water.
  
  
• Preferably owning a good standing formal professional Project Management or project controls management qualification or certification.
  
  
• Proficiency in EVM processes and their application in complex infrastructure projects and possessing a strong aptitude to oversee schedule, cost, risk, change control management activities, and reporting.
  
  
• Experience of project controls management under NEC Forms of Contract.
  
  
• Experience in a client organisation for a complex infrastructure project/ programme.
  
  
• A good appreciation of Quantitative Schedule and Cost Risk Analysis (QSRA/QCRA) and baseline management.
  
  
• Resilience, with the ability to maintain rational thought in a high-pressure environment