Project Controls Manager
 

Location - UK

Ref - PCMOW


Key Accountabilities

Planning & Scheduling

  • Lead development and governance of integrated project schedules across DEVEX, CAPEX, and OPEX phases

  • Maintain planning standards, WBS/OBS/CBS structures, calendars, and schedule governance

  • Ensure realistic baselines aligned with scope, design maturity, procurement, and construction strategy

  • Review contractor schedules for logic, compliance, interfaces, and deliverability

  • Coordinate integration across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and stakeholders

  • Ensure schedules reflect operational constraints, permits, logistics, outages, and third-party dependencies

  • Oversee progress measurement and verify schedule updates for accuracy

  • Provide schedule analysis, critical path insights, delay identification, and recovery planning

  • Ensure reporting is accurate, consistent, and aligned with cost and risk data

Cost Control & Forecasting

  • Lead project cost control activities and alignment between budgets, forecasts, and schedules

  • Oversee forecasting, variance analysis, and VOWD reporting

  • Maintain robust cost governance aligned with commercial and financial reporting requirements

  • Ensure CBS structures align with WBS and integrated project schedules

  • Manage development and governance of project cost baselines (CAPEX/DEVEX)

  • Review commitments, accruals, and contractor cost submissions for accuracy

  • Ensure effective application of earned value management (EVM)

  • Challenge forecasts, variances, and estimate-to-complete (ETC) assumptions

  • Ensure approved changes are reflected in cost and schedule baselines

  • Deliver clear cost reporting, dashboards, and performance insights

Risk & Change Management

  • Integrate schedule and cost risk analysis (CSRA) into project decision-making

  • Oversee change control processes and impact assessments

  • Drive proactive risk identification and mitigation strategies

  • Ensure risk registers align with cost and schedule baselines

  • Validate mitigation plans and embed them into forecasts and schedules

  • Monitor and report risk exposure, contingency, and confidence levels

  • Ensure risk changes are reflected in planning and cost controls

  • Provide forward-looking analysis on emerging risks and project impacts

Document Control

  • Establish and enforce document control standards, workflows, and approval processes

  • Ensure all documentation is stored and maintained within the approved EDMS

  • Manage transmittals and document exchange with contractors and stakeholders

  • Monitor review and approval timelines, escalating delays where required

  • Maintain accurate document registers, metadata, and audit trails

Reporting & Governance

  • Define and maintain project controls standards, procedures, and reporting cycles

  • Provide executive reporting on project performance, trends, and risks

  • Lead Project Management Reviews (PMRs) and performance assessments

  • Integrate ESG and sustainability metrics into reporting where applicable

Other

  • Comply with company policies and support continual improvement of the Business Management System (BMS) and HSEQS commitments

Person Specification

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Project Management, or related discipline

  • Extensive project controls leadership experience within offshore wind, oil & gas, or major infrastructure projects

  • Renewables industry experience desirable

  • Advanced knowledge of Primavera P6, cost control systems, and risk analysis tools (e.g. Primavera Risk, Safran Risk)

  • Experience integrating project controls with ERP, finance, and document management systems (e.g. SAP, Oracle, SharePoint) desirable

  • Proven leadership of multidisciplinary teams and cross-functional stakeholders

  • Experience working in joint venture and multi-contractor delivery environments

  • Strong capability in dashboard reporting and executive-level data presentation

  • Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, analytical, and problem-solving skills

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