Project Controls ManagerLocation: Chorley, LancashireClient Environment: NuclearWorking Pattern: 37 hours per week, worked over four days (Monday-Thursday no Friday working)Employment Type: Permanent or Contract
Role Purpose
Seeking an experienced Project Controls Manager to lead the project controls function in support of a nuclear client based in Chorley.
The successful candidate will establish, lead and assure an integrated project controls framework across the project lifecycle, covering scope, schedule, cost, risk, change and performance measurement. The role will ensure robust baseline management, reliable forecasting, effective change control and accurate, auditable management information to support project governance and timely decision-making.
Working within a high-integrity nuclear environment, the Project Controls Manager will provide strong leadership, analytical challenge and independent oversight of project performance, ensuring emerging risks, trends and variances are identified, assessed and escalated appropriately.
Key Responsibilities
Project Controls Leadership
- Lead and coordinate the project controls function, ensuring effective integration across planning, cost control, risk, change and performance reporting.
- Establish and maintain consistent project controls processes, procedures, standards and reporting frameworks.
- Coordinate project controls resources and provide technical guidance to project delivery teams.
- Promote a culture of accountability, transparency, data integrity and continuous improvement.
- Planning, Cost and Performance Management
- Establish, maintain and assure approved project scope, schedule and cost baselines.
- Oversee integrated planning, schedule development, progress measurement and critical path analysis.
- Monitor budgets, commitments, actual expenditure, cost performance and estimate-at-completion forecasts.
- Challenge performance trends, variances and underlying assumptions, ensuring corrective actions are identified and tracked.
- Provide early visibility of potential schedule delays, cost pressures and delivery risks.
Forecasting, Risk and Change Control
- Lead forecasting activities to ensure realistic and evidence-based assessments of project cost, schedule and delivery performance.
- Ensure project risks and opportunities are incorporated into forecasts and performance assessments.
- Manage and assure change control processes, assessing the impact of proposed changes on scope, cost, schedule, risk and delivery commitments.
- Maintain clear traceability between approved changes and baseline revisions.
- Support scenario planning, mitigation strategies and recovery plans where performance deviates from agreed objectives.
- Governance, Reporting and Assurance
- Produce and assure accurate, timely and auditable project controls reports for senior management and project governance forums.
- Provide clear insight into project status, forecast outturn, key performance indicators, risks and emerging issues.
- Ensure management information is supported by robust data, documented assumptions and appropriate audit trails.
- Support project reviews, assurance activities, audits and stage-gate processes.
- Escalate material deviations and provide evidence-based recommendations to support effective decision-making.
- Nuclear Environment and Compliance
- Operate in accordance with the clients nuclear site requirements, governance arrangements, quality standards and applicable regulatory obligations.
- Maintain a disciplined approach to configuration control, change management, records management and assurance.
- Support a strong nuclear safety and quality culture, recognising the importance of traceability, procedural compliance and risk-informed decision-making.
- Work collaboratively with engineering, project delivery, commercial, finance, risk and assurance teams to maintain effective project oversight.
Essential Experience and Qualifications
- Proven experience in a Project Controls Manager or senior project controls leadership role.
- Strong experience across integrated planning, cost control, forecasting, risk management, change control and performance reporting.
- Experience working on complex engineering, infrastructure, energy, defence or other highly regulated projects.
- Demonstrable experience managing baselines, analysing variances and challenging forecasts.
- Experience producing management information for senior stakeholders and governance boards.
- Strong understanding of project assurance, auditability and formal change control.
- Excellent leadership, analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills.
Desirable Experience
- Experience within the nuclear industry or on projects supporting a nuclear client.
- Familiarity with nuclear quality, assurance and regulatory expectations.
- Experience with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, earned value management and project reporting systems.
- Relevant professional qualifications, such as APM, PMI or equivalent project controls certifications.
- Degree or equivalent experience in engineering, project management, commercial management or a related discipline.
Working Arrangements
This opportunity is based in Chorley, supporting a nuclear client, with a 37-hour working week compressed into four days, Monday to Thursday, with no scheduled Friday working.
The role is available on either a permanent or contract basis, subject to the agreed engagement terms.
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