Senior Project Controls Engineer

Overview

As a Senior Project Controls Engineer, you will support Edinburgh-based infrastructure projects across defence, rail, aviation, highways, water, marine/ports and utilities. You’ll collaborate with cost and planning engineers to set baselines, monitor progress, and produce control reports that drive client recommendations. You’ll act as a key contact for project control insights, shaping performance analyses and governance. This role offers opportunities to impact large-scale programmes within a multidisciplinary team and a culture that values proactive delivery.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working environment
• focus on work-life balance
• inclusion and equal opportunity
• supportive workplace culture
• opportunity to affect change
• great place to work (described in text)

Responsibilities

• Develop work breakdown structures and robust performance baselines with cost and planning engineers
• Establish progress and cost monitoring methods and produce project control reports
• Provide performance analysis and recommendations for clients
• Chair or participate in planning workshops and risk reviews
• Ensure quality schedules via assurance reviews and self-checking of work
• Manage baseline monitoring, progress data collection, and variance reporting
• Escalate issues and drive governance for effective communication and coordination
• Drive a positive can-do culture and hold work package owners to account

Key requirements

• Experience in project controls within infrastructure sectors (defence, rail, aviation, highways, water, marine/ports and utilities)
• At least one of: Programme Controls Management, Earned Value (EVM), Change & Risk Management, Planning, PMO
• Knowledge of best-practice planning principles and how client life cycles affect planning
• Technical competence in schedule construction, WBS, calendars, duration estimation, schedule logic, critical path, resource and cost allocation
• Working knowledge of Primavera, Project Online, Microsoft Project, Asta Powerproject
• Experience with Primavera Schedlog, Acumen Fuse, DCMA 14 Point Checklist for quality assurance
• Ability to monitor schedules, manage baselines, gather progress data, measure performance, and report variances
• Experience in risk reviews, recovery/scenario planning and recommendations
• Ownership of schedule management and stakeholder-focused outputs

• Can-do attitude
• cross-functional collaboration
• strong communication and coordination
• Primavera
• Project Online
• Microsoft Project

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