Project Controls Lead - Engineering

Carbon60 are currently working with a leading engineering and maintenance provider to recruit an experience Project Controls Lead on a permanent basis located at the companies Warrington site.

The role is being hired due to continued expansion and new contract wins and will focus on supporting the engineering project management team in monitoring, controlling and reporting on various engineering projects across oil and gas, nuclear, energy, utilities and chemical projects.

Responsibilities:

• Depending on size and complexity you may work on one project or a portfolio of projects
• Responsible for ensuring the integrity and effectiveness of planning / scheduling, cost, project change control and project risk management in line with the contract.
• Set up the project schedule and project reporting system in line with the project contract requirements
• Update and monitor the project schedule and control estimate with input from the discipline Lead Engineers, Procurement Manager and Project Manager challenging them on the reported progress if required
• Provide planning and cost information (e.g. histograms, S-curves, performance indices) required for the progress reports
• Identify changes in resource requirements for the projects
• Advise the Project Managers ways to recover from programme slippage
• You will identify risks to the programme or budget and advise the Engineering Project Managers.

Experience Required:

• Previous experience as project controls engineer in an Engineering / EPCM / EPC company, in one of the above mentioned sectors.
• Experience setting up an Engineering project schedule and project reporting system
• Sound knowledge of multidiscipline engineering projects and solid understanding of interdependencies and logic links between intra- and inter-discipline activities and deliverables.
• Experience working on large scale portfolios, programmes or projects
• Sound knowledge of and experience with various phases of engineering and construction projects - concept, FEED, detailed design, procurement, construction, commissioning
• Experience and good understanding of working with the common standard forms of contract (NEC3 and 4, FIDIC, etc.)
• A strong understanding of Project Controls practices, processes and tools, including application of standard metrics such as BCWS, BCWP, ACWP, SPI, CPI
• Significant capability in the use of scheduling software (Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel)
• Significant capability in Microsoft Office (Word and Powerpoint) and SAP.
• Experience in the use of various cost control, risk management and reporting tools.
• Result oriented. You are only satisfied if you help the EPM complete a project profitably

Preferred:

• HND / BSc / BEng / MSc in Engineering or Chartered Engineer
• Qualification from APE (Association of Planning Engineers) and/or AcosteE (Association of Cost Engineers

This is an excellent opportunity to join a well known business in the UK, with progression opportunities, competitive salary and benefits packaged and working time flexibility.

For more information on this role please contact the Carbon60 engineering team on (phone number removed).

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.