Senior Project Controls Manager

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Position Summary

The Senior Project Controls Manager – Utility Compounds is responsible for establishing and leading all project controls functions (planning, scheduling, cost control, risk, change, and reporting) across one or more utility compounds and associated infrastructure works. This role provides strategic oversight and assurance that scope, schedule, and budget objectives are achieved, while maintaining robust governance, transparent reporting, and proactive risk management for complex, multi‑contract utility developments.

Key Responsibilities

Project Controls Leadership

• Lead the project controls strategy and implementation for utility compound programs.
• Develop and maintain integrated project controls plans, aligning schedule, cost, risk, change, and reporting processes with corporate and client requirements.
• Provide expert guidance to project managers, engineers, and commercial teams on project controls best practices.
• Ensure consistency and standardization of project controls procedures across all contracts and work packages.

Planning & Scheduling

• Establish, review, and approve baseline schedules in collaboration with planning engineers and project leads.
• Integrate multiple contractor and internal schedules into a single program-level master schedule.
• Monitor schedule performance, analyze critical paths, float, and interfaces between utility compounds and wider network works.
• Lead schedule risk analysis and scenario planning to assess and mitigate potential delays.
• Review contractors’ recovery plans and assess their viability.

Cost Management & Forecasting

• Develop and manage project budgets, cash flow forecasts, and cost control frameworks for utility compounds.
• Oversee cost tracking, commitment control, and monthly cost/value reconciliations.
• Lead cost forecasting and estimate-at-completion reviews, ensuring alignment with schedule and risk.
• Identify cost variances, trends, and opportunities for savings; recommend corrective and optimizing measures.

Change & Risk Management

• Set up and manage robust change control processes, including impact assessments on scope, time, cost, and risk.
• Chair or support change control boards, ensuring timely review, approval, and documentation of changes.
• Establish and maintain project risk registers, facilitating risk identification, qualitative/quantitative assessment, and mitigation planning.
• Coordinate schedule and cost risk analyses and integrate results into forecasts and management reporting.

Performance Measurement & Reporting

• Implement earned value management or equivalent performance measurement techniques.
• Define and monitor KPIs for schedule adherence, cost performance, productivity, and change/risk effectiveness.
• Produce clear, concise monthly and ad‑hoc project controls reports for senior management, clients, and stakeholders.
• Provide early warning on emerging issues and propose data‑driven mitigation and recovery strategies.

Data, Systems & Governance

• Oversee configuration and use of project controls tools (e.g., Primavera P6, MS Project, cost management and reporting systems).
• Ensure data integrity, version control, and alignment between planning, cost, and reporting systems.
• Develop and maintain project controls procedures, templates, and standards tailored to utility compound delivery.
• Support internal and external audits, ensuring compliance with company governance and client requirements.

Stakeholder & Interface Management