Birmingham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Hybrid Employment

Turner & Townsend is hiring a Project Controls Manager

About the Role

The role involves leading project controls functions including cost management, scheduling, risk analysis, and performance reporting across capital projects. The manager ensures data integrity, supports decision-making, and collaborates with project teams to maintain control frameworks and deliver timely insights.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development and maintenance of project cost estimates and budgets
  • Oversee the creation and updating of project schedules and milestones
  • Ensure consistency and accuracy in project financial reporting
  • Monitor project expenditures and forecast final costs
  • Implement risk assessment processes for project planning
  • Analyze variances between planned and actual project performance
  • Support change management procedures for scope adjustments
  • Maintain integrated project controls systems across teams
  • Coordinate with engineering and procurement for cost tracking
  • Prepare regular progress reports for stakeholders
  • Establish baseline project performance metrics
  • Manage earned value management systems and analysis
  • Verify timekeeping and cost-loading practices
  • Facilitate project control reviews and audits
  • Train project team members on controls methodologies
  • Ensure compliance with contractual reporting requirements
  • Integrate schedule and cost data for performance insights
  • Support project governance meetings with data analysis
  • Develop dashboards and visualization tools for controls data
  • Promote continuous improvement in project controls processes
  • Collaborate with finance on budget reconciliation
  • Assist in the preparation of project forecasts and updates
  • Manage interfaces between multiple project control systems
  • Ensure timely data collection from project teams
  • Maintain documentation for project control activities

Compensation

Competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience

Work Arrangement

Hybrid work model with office and remote options

Team

Part of a multidisciplinary project delivery team supporting large-scale infrastructure initiatives

Project Delivery Focus

This role supports delivery of major capital projects across diverse sectors, emphasizing control frameworks that ensure predictability and accountability throughout the project lifecycle.

Technology Environment

Candidates should be comfortable using enterprise-level project management software, data integration platforms, and cloud-based collaboration tools to support real-time controls reporting.

Career Development

Opportunities for professional growth through exposure to complex projects, leadership training, and technical upskilling in analytics and digital controls tools.

Performance Expectations

Success is measured by data accuracy, timeliness of reporting, effectiveness of risk identification, and contribution to project decision-making processes.

Available for qualified candidates requiring sponsorship

About company
Turner & Townsend
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 to deliver impactful projects and programmes. Capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
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Department Real estate
Category other
Posted 4 days ago