Associate Director - Project Controls Manager

Job Description

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Project Controls Manager to join our team to support a large scale Life Sciences project. You will be involved from inception through to completion, so the successful candidate will require a broad experience of the construction process and be able to stand up a project from the beginning; establishing and delivering robust processes.

• Provide proactive communication to ensure client leadership (Project Services and Project Execution) is appraised of trends on the project.
• Establish and maintain project controls service level agreements, responsibility matrices etc. providing clarity over responsibilities amongst internal and external resources.
• Responsible for the development of, and approve, project control plans and procedures covering all facets of project controls (schedule, cost, cashflow, risk, change and reporting).
• Leverage third-party providers and their work processes wherever practicable.
• Input into risk management activities, with pricing of risks where appropriate and contributing to mitigation measures.
• Participate in interactive planning sessions, ensuring any outputs including ongoing visual performance management tools are in place and accessible for all appropriate persons.
• Develop and maintain accurate staffing plans for the project(s) in conjunction with project team.
• Review key project control deliverables ahead of submission for periodic reporting purposes to ensure accurate and meaningful data is provided.
• Provide comment and recommendations for corrective actions where appropriate.
• Liaise with client Finance team and/or other stakeholders as required to ensure project performance data is open, transparent and supports corporate requirements.
• Support the procurement process, working pre-contract with Procurement resources as required.
• Cook up with estimating resources in respect of funding requests etc. and take responsibility for ‘on time in full’ project controls stage-gate documentation for internal governance / funding decisions.
• Key responsibilities would be coordinating third party estimating / GC firms and consolidating from multiple sources to provide an all-in estimate.

Key Deliverables

• Monthly cost report, tracking against authorised budget to deliver concept.
• Supporting with the preparation of content for stakeholder monthly presentations.
• Quarterly cashflow forecasts.
• Conducting and agreeing monthly pencil requisitions with the GC.
• Facilitating change process (establish and maintain change log).
• Ditto re risk management process / register.
• Reviewing and agreeing variations with the GC to achieve a rolling final account.
• Agreeing GC Final Accounts.

Project Controls Plan

• Behaviors: Candidate would ideally have positive experience in demonstrating the following behaviors in their previous roles:
  • Taking the initiative to work within loosely defined parameters and setting a structure to be followed by others.
  • Client facing, so able to display key company behaviors of creating an inclusive environment of mutual trust and cooperation.
  • Challenge existing behaviors and processes in a positive way to drive a culture of improvement and change.
  • Excellent communicator and thrives in a client facing role with an ability to present to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience working in a construction cost role and developing estimates throughout the project lifecycle.
• Demonstrated experience providing construction cost management services throughout the project lifecycle.
• College and/or post-graduate degree in construction management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction.
• Ability to manage deliverables across multiple projects at the same time.
• The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of estimating/cost management experience in construction / laboratory environments.
• Mechanical manufacturing experience is strongly preferred.
• US experience preferred.

Additional Information

• Turner & Townsend is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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