Project Controls Manager (Water)

Job title:

Project Controls Manager (Water)

Company

Arcadis

Job description

Job Description:Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.Role description:We are recruiting for a Project Controls Manager to join our regulated water business unit supporting a variety of projects across the southeast. This opportunity will allow the successful candidate to support an integrated project controls team at the water sector. The projects combine both new builds and infrastructure upgrades and decommissioning within a structured collaborative environment working with colleagues who are focused on innovative solutions and teamwork where the focus is on delivery of programme outputs.You will provide guidance, support, and consultation to project managers and drives the project control outcomes. It includes review and management of the project controls deliverables and products ensuring that they incorporate all relevant information from engineering, procurement, contract management and governance, so that projects can be executed effectively, the status understood and trusted, and forecasts robust.Part of this role will involve travel to the clients office located in the East Sussex area, approx. 1-2 times per week depending on client need.Role accountabilities:

• To act as the focal point for project controls on the site and to integrate all project controls activities within the programme of projects undergoing delivery at site.
• Supervise a team of project controls practitioners including the planning and prioritising of work, integration and review of project controls deliverables and project support.
• Closely work with Project Managers, Programme Delivery Managers, Site Integration Managers to understand requirements and project controls priorities, providing advice and insight in support of project delivery.
• Analyse performance of projects and clearly communicate progress, issues, threats and opportunities based on project controls deliverables and insights.
• Manage and drive project baseline changes for projects within the supported site project portfolio, working with the change & baseline lead in Project Controls to plan and report on progress.
• Manage and drive the control of scope and change through effective assumptions management ensuring consistency of understanding across project controls practitioners.
• Provide assurance review of project controls deliverables in support of business case development, baseline insertion, change or other decisions requiring assurance.
• Oversee and support the implementation of project controls processes, systems and toolsets for the supported site project portfolio.
• Coordinate the monitoring and reporting requirements originating from project controls systems, activities ensuring that submission dates are met by the team and that insightful comment is included where appropriate
• Provide informed advice on all aspects of project controls process implementation including WBS, CBS, RBS, EVM.
• Provide support and analysis to project management teams in oversight and management of key contracts as pertaining to project controls commitments.
• Ensures the input of project controls into Work Information and pre-tender activities.
• Support the resolution of complex Early Warnings/Compensation Events across multidisciplined project teams, ensuring the outcomes are reflected in project controls products and progressed through change control where necessary.
• Interpret and report upon Earned Value Management metrics and other significant project KPIs that form Project Controls.
• Plan and develop the project controls practitioners that report to this position and develop mid to long term resource plans based upon anticipated demand for project controls support. Plan succession, training, and development plans collaboratively with the Project Controls functional leads.
• Support the Programme/Project Delivery Manager in the preparation and review of the business planning cycle ensuring funding requirements of the projects are correctly captured.
• Contribute towards the broader project controls and project management community through sharing and developing best practice and lessons learned.
• Liaise with sanction and assurance, and the risk bureau to ensure that risk and governance related activities are planned for and that any change in status that impacts either sanction or contingency requirements are communicated.
• Manage apprentice and graduate development where early career staff are assigned to the PCMs site.
• Escalate as appropriate to the project manager and PMO line management as necessary, issues of project performance resulting from inadequate controls, identifying and recommending recovery actions to the project teams.

Qualifications & Experience:

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Demonstrable experience in a Project Control or Project Management discipline
• A solid understanding of cost, planning, change and contract management in a project environment
• Excellent understanding of the NEC suite of contracts
• A relevant project management or project control qualification

Why Arcadis?We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone’s contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.Together, we can create a lasting legacy.Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & BelongingWe want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.#RegulatedWater #LI-TW1

Expected salary

Location

London

Job date

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:15:56 GMT

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