Senior Project Controls Lead

Overview

In this Senior Project Controls Lead role, you will drive proportionate controls across a major capital programme within the Asset Delivery PMO. You will partner with delivery teams to monitor health, challenge performance and improve delivery through robust forecasting and change control. You’ll lead consistency in project control across sub-programmes, support junior colleagues, and present status to senior leaders. This is a chance to shape how a multi-billion-pound AMP8 programme is planned, tracked and governed. Join a mission-driven utility delivering critical services to millions while advancing your leadership in project controls.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Annual incentive bonus
• Pension scheme with company contribution
• 25 days annual leave + 2 wellness days
• Life assurance cover
• Health and dental insurance options

Responsibilities

• Drive proportionate project control processes across the programme and mentor junior team members
• Facilitate regular delivery-team sessions to monitor health, challenge issues and drive improvements
• Identify threats to performance and work with teams to mitigate risk
• Ensure adherence to project control processes: forecasting, change control, RAID, milestone management
• Draft programme status reports and present metrics to Senior Leaders
• Coordinate with Project Planners to align forecasts and schedules
• Ensure consistency of project control activity across multiple sub-programmes
• Carry out assurance activities (Project Assurance Reviews, Post-Project Reviews) and report outcomes
• Support development and rollout of project control training across the delivery community
• Line management and development of Project Control Leads and more junior staff
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the project control team
• Provide training and guidance to enhance team capability
• Collaborate across wider teams to build strong working relationships

Key requirements

• Experience in a PMO environment with a focus on project controls
• Ability to analyse project performance data and present to senior leaders
• Experience enforcing control processes within large, complex programmes
• Experience tracking and reporting cost, time and quality with solid project management knowledge
• Strong understanding of financial reporting and project planning principles
• Excellent communication skills and ability to coach others
• Experience supporting colleagues to improve team capability
• Ability to challenge undesired behaviours appropriately
• Good IT skills and ability to use multiple systems
• Ability to collaborate across wider teams

• communication and presentation skills
• ability to challenge appropriately
• collaboration and relationship-building
• Primavera P6
• NEC contracts
• financial forecasting

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