Project Controls Manager

Requisition ID: 258029

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Bechtel helps clients deliver projects of purpose that create a lasting positive legacy globally. These projects create jobs and grow economies; improve the resiliency of the world’s infrastructure; connect communities to resources and opportunities; get us closer to net zero; tackle critical environmental challenges to protect people and the planet; and accelerate progress to make the world a cleaner, greener, safer place.

We are currently recruiting for long term career professionals, with an initial assignment supporting Telecommunications projects across the UK. Bechtel has been selected as a Delivery Partner on a £4 Billion programme to bring high speed internet connectivity to communities. The core focus is to deploy next generation fibre infrastructure across the public sector, businesses, mobile operators, and homes. These projects are key to improving connectivity for millions of people and boosting economic productivity in the long-term.

To achieve this goal individuals from Bechtel bring their experience and expertise to the role while working within the client’s organisation as part of an integrated team. We commit to supporting the client’s goals while promoting our values of fairness, diversity, inclusion, trust and collaboration guided by our Vision, Values and Covenants.

Position Summary

The Project Controls Manager oversees all project controls activities within a region of cities. They are responsible for ensuring that change management, risk management, data analytics, reports, and insights, and work planning and scheduling are delivered to the highest standard. The Project Controls Manager will provide supervision, guidance, and direction to Project Controls supervisors and engineers under their purview. The Project Controls Manager takes direction from the Regional Director.

Typical Responsibilities

Change Management

• Prepares baselines including establishment and enforcement of overall plans and policy. Ensures reliable change control is in place. Implements trend programmes and ensures compliance. Establishes overall policy for change control including process development and enhancement. Chairs regional and national level change boards.

Risk Management

• Identifies and facilitates the identification of risks and opportunities including cross-learning between projects and identification of strategic and enterprise risks. Ensures the delivery of reliable and insightful change registers. Reports on key risks and opportunity to board level. Facilitates the transition from risk to issue. Performs quantitative risk analysis. Inputs into the development of the overall risk framework.

Data Analytics, Insight and Reporting

• Maintains, analyses and reports on complex data sets. Prepares recommendations based on the analysis including comparisons between projects to generate further insight. Develops data categorisations. Prepares detailed and summary level analysis in multiple formats and delivers such analysis to board level. Uses features of recognised professional data management software. Assists in developing and implementing an overall data collection and analysis framework.

Work Planning, Scheduling and Sequencing

• Implements the enterprise planning and scheduling policy within a region. Ensures that schedule status is reliable and timely, and that risks are elevated to the correct level. Implements recovery planning within contractor organisations and ensures compliance with contractual obligations with respect to planning and scheduling. Uses the key features of recognised professional planning and scheduling software.

Process Definition and Improvement

• Identifies inefficiencies and potential improvements and makes recommendations on how to remove inefficiencies and implement improvements. Leads on the implementation of improvements to multi-department processes. Utilises statistical and behavioural analysis to identify process failures and ensure data-driven and reliable process improvements.

Supervision, Guidance and Direction

• Works as part of an integrated team. Reviews work for alignment with task objectives, content, conclusions, and general presentation. Undertakes performance evaluations, establishes goals and resolves conflict

Skills and Qualifications

Required

• Relevant University degree (or international equivalent) and relevant experience for similar scopes/scales of work, or in lieu of degree additional demonstrated experience
• Greater than 10 years of related experience in project controls, including project controls management, with a skillset in one of cost, schedule, reporting, change or risk.
• Full Driver’s License that is valid in the UK

Preferred

• Experience in the construction and installation of fibre optic networks

Shaping tomorrow together

Bechtel is one of the most respected global engineering, construction, and project management companies. Together with our customers, we deliver landmark projects that foster long-term progress and economic growth. Since 1898, we’ve completed more than 25,000 extraordinary projects across 160 countries on all seven continents. We operate through four global businesses: Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; and Mining & Metals. Our company and our culture are built on more than a century of leadership and a relentless adherence to our values, the core of which are safety, quality, ethics, and integrity. These values are what we believe, what we expect, what we deliver, and what we live.
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Bechtel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, disability, citizenship status (except as authorized by law), protected veteran status, genetic information, and any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

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