Project Controls Lead - Industrial, Science & Technology projects

Project Controls Lead – Industrial, Science & Technology projects

Full‑time position at Turner & Townsend.

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with 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.

Responsibilities

• Establish required processes, templates, and tools, and agree the baseline for cost and schedule while monitoring performance against it and incorporating the impacts of risk, opportunities and change in a controlled manner.
• Identify trends and root causes of deviations against the baseline using lead and lag indicators, recommend remedial actions to drive best value for the client.
• Lead the evaluation of the project's time, cost and quality targets, applying governance controls as necessary to enable successful delivery.
• Cooperate with a remote team of cost managers responsible for reaching an agreed, market‑tested cost baseline and ensuring the client receives value for money.
• Guide and influence the general contractor, ensuring they progress in line with the schedule and within agreed cash flow parameters.
• Act as the key point of contact to the client, overcoming delivery and commercial issues while preparing formal and ad‑hoc reports focusing on time, cost and quality targets.
• Control costs with knowledge of conceptual estimating, funding stage gates, basic contingency principles, and procurement principles.
• Create and/or work within a cost report, summarizing financials in an executive‑level dashboard.
• Understand change management principles, lead the agreed change management process and workflow, providing a platform for adding, tracking, monitoring and approving change.
• Coordinate and lead planning sessions and workshops with clients and vendors to compile the master project/programme schedule, agreeing baselines and a critical path.
• Understand procurement principles, collate lead times from vendors and client into the master schedule, communicate prioritisation of ordering materials and equipment to meet scheduled install dates.
• Work closely with the client to define vendor schedule requirements.
• Actively participate in project team risk evaluations, incorporating defined risks into Monte‑Carlo simulations to output quantitative impacts on the overall project cost and schedule.
• Work closely with the project team to stay informed on the status of project changes, incorporating and communicating these to allow approvals in the change management process.
• Hold vendors accountable for required schedule updates and reporting to maintain timely and accurate updates of the master schedule, ensuring adherence to the defined process and quality expectations.

Qualifications

• Experience in project controls coordination in all phases of the project lifecycle, including programme, risk and reporting, with project experience of very large complex construction projects, ideally in the Life Science or Chemical sector. Nuclear, O&G, Power, Industrial & Manufacturing sector applications are also welcome.
• Demonstrated experience in determining corrective actions or recommendations based on facts and figures and critically evaluating information from various sources.
• Advanced skills in MS Office and Primavera P6.
• Commitment to providing excellent service.
• Reliable, able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
• Strong time‑management skills, quick thinking and ability to meet project deadlines.
• Highly motivated and driven with a passion for delivering to clients and the ability to work independently.
• Strong verbal and written German & English required.
• Flexible mobility advantageous; Industrial, Science & Technology projects are often away from home office locations.

Our people share our Purpose and Values. Turner & Townsend provides a great place to work, where everyone can make change happen and influence a better world.

We champion our people to succeed in both 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. We actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.