Project Controls Manager
Posted on Jun 17, 2026 by CV-Library
London, United Kingdom
Engineering
Immediate Start
Annual Salary
Full-Time
Integrated Project Controls Manager - Mega-Project Infrastructure
Sector: Nuclear New Build / Major Infrastructure & Energy
Location: London, England (Hybrid: 3 days per week on-site/office)
Position Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Vetting Requirements: Standard UK Baseline Vetting / Background Checks
The Opportunity:
We are partnering with a premier Tier 1 technical services and project controls consultancy to recruit a senior Project Controls Manager. Operating within an expanding mega-project infrastructure division, this role is central to driving high-quality, integrated baseline management across a flagship multi-billion-pound energy development.
This position serves as a critical strategic link between the central Project Management Office (PMO), engineering delivery programmes, and the international supply chain. You will lead and coordinate a team across cost, scheduling, risk, change management, and performance reporting to ensure all project management data drives forward-looking executive decision-making.
Key Responsibilities:
Integrated Controls Management: Direct and manage all Project Controls functions for an assigned multi-million-pound work scope, ensuring strict alignment with the project's master Controls Execution Plan.
Data Integration & Function Coordination: Harmonise the distinct functions of cost engineering, scheduling, risk management, and change control to produce unified, high-integrity management information.
Supply Chain Assurance: Liaise extensively with tier 1 supply chain partners to review, interrogate, and assure the quality and validity of contractor-submitted project controls data.
Performance Reporting: Author and deliver high-quality, audit-ready month-end performance reports, steering subsequent project performance review meetings with delivery leads.
Variance & Forecast Analysis: Oversee schedule health, cost variance analysis, accurate Estimate at Completion (EAC) forecasting, and the identification of proactive programme recovery loops.
Strategic Stakeholder Engagement: Present clear, data-driven insights and concise narratives to senior leadership. Engage with executive stakeholders and represent the project controls function externally as an exemplar of industry best practices.
Digital Innovation: Contribute to the development of cutting-edge project controls techniques, supporting "Digital by Default" analytical ways of working.
What We're Looking For:
Infrastructure Pedigree: Robust, proven experience delivering integrated project controls frameworks on large-scale, complex infrastructure or heavy industrial capital programmes.
Multi-Discipline Competence: Deep technical competence across multiple core controls functions, specifically cost control, estimating, critical path scheduling, change management, and quantitative risk analysis.
Earned Value Expertise: Solid, practical understanding of Earned Value Analysis (EVA) and performance measurement baselines.
Leadership in Matrix Environments: Demonstrated experience managing and mentoring controls teams within a complex matrix structure, backed by strong influencing and communication skills.
Education: Degree or equivalent higher qualification in Business, Finance, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related technical discipline.
Office Presence: Able to work from the London office a minimum of 3 days per week.
Desirable Attributes:
Professional membership or formal certification with recognised bodies such as APM, PMI, or AACE.
Advanced hands-on experience utilising modern reporting and data analytics tools (e.g., Power BI).
Strong contractual awareness regarding the mechanisms of NEC or FIDIC contract suites.
Previous experience operating within the Nuclear Energy sector or similarly strict high-compliance environments.
What's on Offer (Package & Benefits):
Salary: High-tier base salary matching senior project controls leadership appointments.
Work-Life Balance: Comprehensive commitment to modern flexibility, including an established hybrid working framework.
Healthcare: Premium private single medical cover alongside a digital GP service.
Family Benefits: Enhanced parental leave pay structures and full access to employee assistance and parental wellness programmes.
Professional Development: Financial reimbursement and corporate backing for relevant professional institutional memberships and continuous professional development (CPD).
Corporate Culture: A highly collaborative workspace backed by extensive employee networks, matched-funding, and paid volunteering schemes
Sector: Nuclear New Build / Major Infrastructure & Energy
Location: London, England (Hybrid: 3 days per week on-site/office)
Position Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Vetting Requirements: Standard UK Baseline Vetting / Background Checks
The Opportunity:
We are partnering with a premier Tier 1 technical services and project controls consultancy to recruit a senior Project Controls Manager. Operating within an expanding mega-project infrastructure division, this role is central to driving high-quality, integrated baseline management across a flagship multi-billion-pound energy development.
This position serves as a critical strategic link between the central Project Management Office (PMO), engineering delivery programmes, and the international supply chain. You will lead and coordinate a team across cost, scheduling, risk, change management, and performance reporting to ensure all project management data drives forward-looking executive decision-making.
Key Responsibilities:
Integrated Controls Management: Direct and manage all Project Controls functions for an assigned multi-million-pound work scope, ensuring strict alignment with the project's master Controls Execution Plan.
Data Integration & Function Coordination: Harmonise the distinct functions of cost engineering, scheduling, risk management, and change control to produce unified, high-integrity management information.
Supply Chain Assurance: Liaise extensively with tier 1 supply chain partners to review, interrogate, and assure the quality and validity of contractor-submitted project controls data.
Performance Reporting: Author and deliver high-quality, audit-ready month-end performance reports, steering subsequent project performance review meetings with delivery leads.
Variance & Forecast Analysis: Oversee schedule health, cost variance analysis, accurate Estimate at Completion (EAC) forecasting, and the identification of proactive programme recovery loops.
Strategic Stakeholder Engagement: Present clear, data-driven insights and concise narratives to senior leadership. Engage with executive stakeholders and represent the project controls function externally as an exemplar of industry best practices.
Digital Innovation: Contribute to the development of cutting-edge project controls techniques, supporting "Digital by Default" analytical ways of working.
What We're Looking For:
Infrastructure Pedigree: Robust, proven experience delivering integrated project controls frameworks on large-scale, complex infrastructure or heavy industrial capital programmes.
Multi-Discipline Competence: Deep technical competence across multiple core controls functions, specifically cost control, estimating, critical path scheduling, change management, and quantitative risk analysis.
Earned Value Expertise: Solid, practical understanding of Earned Value Analysis (EVA) and performance measurement baselines.
Leadership in Matrix Environments: Demonstrated experience managing and mentoring controls teams within a complex matrix structure, backed by strong influencing and communication skills.
Education: Degree or equivalent higher qualification in Business, Finance, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related technical discipline.
Office Presence: Able to work from the London office a minimum of 3 days per week.
Desirable Attributes:
Professional membership or formal certification with recognised bodies such as APM, PMI, or AACE.
Advanced hands-on experience utilising modern reporting and data analytics tools (e.g., Power BI).
Strong contractual awareness regarding the mechanisms of NEC or FIDIC contract suites.
Previous experience operating within the Nuclear Energy sector or similarly strict high-compliance environments.
What's on Offer (Package & Benefits):
Salary: High-tier base salary matching senior project controls leadership appointments.
Work-Life Balance: Comprehensive commitment to modern flexibility, including an established hybrid working framework.
Healthcare: Premium private single medical cover alongside a digital GP service.
Family Benefits: Enhanced parental leave pay structures and full access to employee assistance and parental wellness programmes.
Professional Development: Financial reimbursement and corporate backing for relevant professional institutional memberships and continuous professional development (CPD).
Corporate Culture: A highly collaborative workspace backed by extensive employee networks, matched-funding, and paid volunteering schemes
Reference: 225262074
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Project Controls Manager
Posted on Jun 17, 2026 by CV-Library
London, United Kingdom
Engineering
Immediate Start
Annual Salary
Full-Time
Integrated Project Controls Manager - Mega-Project Infrastructure
Sector: Nuclear New Build / Major Infrastructure & Energy
Location: London, England (Hybrid: 3 days per week on-site/office)
Position Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Vetting Requirements: Standard UK Baseline Vetting / Background Checks
The Opportunity:
We are partnering with a premier Tier 1 technical services and project controls consultancy to recruit a senior Project Controls Manager. Operating within an expanding mega-project infrastructure division, this role is central to driving high-quality, integrated baseline management across a flagship multi-billion-pound energy development.
This position serves as a critical strategic link between the central Project Management Office (PMO), engineering delivery programmes, and the international supply chain. You will lead and coordinate a team across cost, scheduling, risk, change management, and performance reporting to ensure all project management data drives forward-looking executive decision-making.
Key Responsibilities:
Integrated Controls Management: Direct and manage all Project Controls functions for an assigned multi-million-pound work scope, ensuring strict alignment with the project's master Controls Execution Plan.
Data Integration & Function Coordination: Harmonise the distinct functions of cost engineering, scheduling, risk management, and change control to produce unified, high-integrity management information.
Supply Chain Assurance: Liaise extensively with tier 1 supply chain partners to review, interrogate, and assure the quality and validity of contractor-submitted project controls data.
Performance Reporting: Author and deliver high-quality, audit-ready month-end performance reports, steering subsequent project performance review meetings with delivery leads.
Variance & Forecast Analysis: Oversee schedule health, cost variance analysis, accurate Estimate at Completion (EAC) forecasting, and the identification of proactive programme recovery loops.
Strategic Stakeholder Engagement: Present clear, data-driven insights and concise narratives to senior leadership. Engage with executive stakeholders and represent the project controls function externally as an exemplar of industry best practices.
Digital Innovation: Contribute to the development of cutting-edge project controls techniques, supporting "Digital by Default" analytical ways of working.
What We're Looking For:
Infrastructure Pedigree: Robust, proven experience delivering integrated project controls frameworks on large-scale, complex infrastructure or heavy industrial capital programmes.
Multi-Discipline Competence: Deep technical competence across multiple core controls functions, specifically cost control, estimating, critical path scheduling, change management, and quantitative risk analysis.
Earned Value Expertise: Solid, practical understanding of Earned Value Analysis (EVA) and performance measurement baselines.
Leadership in Matrix Environments: Demonstrated experience managing and mentoring controls teams within a complex matrix structure, backed by strong influencing and communication skills.
Education: Degree or equivalent higher qualification in Business, Finance, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related technical discipline.
Office Presence: Able to work from the London office a minimum of 3 days per week.
Desirable Attributes:
Professional membership or formal certification with recognised bodies such as APM, PMI, or AACE.
Advanced hands-on experience utilising modern reporting and data analytics tools (e.g., Power BI).
Strong contractual awareness regarding the mechanisms of NEC or FIDIC contract suites.
Previous experience operating within the Nuclear Energy sector or similarly strict high-compliance environments.
What's on Offer (Package & Benefits):
Salary: High-tier base salary matching senior project controls leadership appointments.
Work-Life Balance: Comprehensive commitment to modern flexibility, including an established hybrid working framework.
Healthcare: Premium private single medical cover alongside a digital GP service.
Family Benefits: Enhanced parental leave pay structures and full access to employee assistance and parental wellness programmes.
Professional Development: Financial reimbursement and corporate backing for relevant professional institutional memberships and continuous professional development (CPD).
Corporate Culture: A highly collaborative workspace backed by extensive employee networks, matched-funding, and paid volunteering schemes
Sector: Nuclear New Build / Major Infrastructure & Energy
Location: London, England (Hybrid: 3 days per week on-site/office)
Position Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Vetting Requirements: Standard UK Baseline Vetting / Background Checks
The Opportunity:
We are partnering with a premier Tier 1 technical services and project controls consultancy to recruit a senior Project Controls Manager. Operating within an expanding mega-project infrastructure division, this role is central to driving high-quality, integrated baseline management across a flagship multi-billion-pound energy development.
This position serves as a critical strategic link between the central Project Management Office (PMO), engineering delivery programmes, and the international supply chain. You will lead and coordinate a team across cost, scheduling, risk, change management, and performance reporting to ensure all project management data drives forward-looking executive decision-making.
Key Responsibilities:
Integrated Controls Management: Direct and manage all Project Controls functions for an assigned multi-million-pound work scope, ensuring strict alignment with the project's master Controls Execution Plan.
Data Integration & Function Coordination: Harmonise the distinct functions of cost engineering, scheduling, risk management, and change control to produce unified, high-integrity management information.
Supply Chain Assurance: Liaise extensively with tier 1 supply chain partners to review, interrogate, and assure the quality and validity of contractor-submitted project controls data.
Performance Reporting: Author and deliver high-quality, audit-ready month-end performance reports, steering subsequent project performance review meetings with delivery leads.
Variance & Forecast Analysis: Oversee schedule health, cost variance analysis, accurate Estimate at Completion (EAC) forecasting, and the identification of proactive programme recovery loops.
Strategic Stakeholder Engagement: Present clear, data-driven insights and concise narratives to senior leadership. Engage with executive stakeholders and represent the project controls function externally as an exemplar of industry best practices.
Digital Innovation: Contribute to the development of cutting-edge project controls techniques, supporting "Digital by Default" analytical ways of working.
What We're Looking For:
Infrastructure Pedigree: Robust, proven experience delivering integrated project controls frameworks on large-scale, complex infrastructure or heavy industrial capital programmes.
Multi-Discipline Competence: Deep technical competence across multiple core controls functions, specifically cost control, estimating, critical path scheduling, change management, and quantitative risk analysis.
Earned Value Expertise: Solid, practical understanding of Earned Value Analysis (EVA) and performance measurement baselines.
Leadership in Matrix Environments: Demonstrated experience managing and mentoring controls teams within a complex matrix structure, backed by strong influencing and communication skills.
Education: Degree or equivalent higher qualification in Business, Finance, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related technical discipline.
Office Presence: Able to work from the London office a minimum of 3 days per week.
Desirable Attributes:
Professional membership or formal certification with recognised bodies such as APM, PMI, or AACE.
Advanced hands-on experience utilising modern reporting and data analytics tools (e.g., Power BI).
Strong contractual awareness regarding the mechanisms of NEC or FIDIC contract suites.
Previous experience operating within the Nuclear Energy sector or similarly strict high-compliance environments.
What's on Offer (Package & Benefits):
Salary: High-tier base salary matching senior project controls leadership appointments.
Work-Life Balance: Comprehensive commitment to modern flexibility, including an established hybrid working framework.
Healthcare: Premium private single medical cover alongside a digital GP service.
Family Benefits: Enhanced parental leave pay structures and full access to employee assistance and parental wellness programmes.
Professional Development: Financial reimbursement and corporate backing for relevant professional institutional memberships and continuous professional development (CPD).
Corporate Culture: A highly collaborative workspace backed by extensive employee networks, matched-funding, and paid volunteering schemes
Reference: 225262074
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