Digital Project Controls – Senior/ Principal Consultant- Bristol & London
- Full-time
- Department: Infrastructure
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Our team is dynamic, innovative, and client‑focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.
Overview
You are an experienced project controls professional (infrastructure or real estate) who wants to enhance client enterprises; transforming their approach to portfolio‑programme‑project management (P3M) by implementing software solutions.
We have developed a Digital Controls cloud technology platform that embeds T&T’s ways of working for project controls into software applications for portfolio, programme and project management. The platform integrates various P3M and project controls software, ultimately producing status and performance reports; providing insight and driving action to help our clients control and deliver their ever more complex portfolios of work.
Our Digital Controls team focuses on the strategy, set‑up and/or transformation of capital portfolios and programmes for public and private sector clients enabling the successful delivery of major programmes both in the UK and internationally.
We are seeking to recruit talented individuals at consultant/senior consultant/principal consultant grades, who can support Digital Controls transformations for our clients.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to assessment of each client environment and current challenges and support in utilising our structured approach to develop and deliver a fit‑for‑purpose Digital Controls solution that achieves desired outcomes.
- Lead development, implementation and optimisation of project controls & performance related strategies, functional set‑up and optimisation.
- Implement our Digital Controls platform to enable an optimised project controls & performance operating model.
- Deploy established P3M methodologies, processes, tools and systems, tailoring them to specific circumstances and contributing to continuous improvement.
- Continuously improve the Digital Controls platform and advisory services.
- Produce reports to support findings and recommendations across various stages of client engagements.
- Deliver workshops in virtual and face‑to‑face environments with client representatives.
- Work within diverse multidisciplinary teams representing Turner & Townsend at client sites and virtually.
- Participate in business generation activities such as bids, proposals, and work closely with senior management and the wider Turner & Townsend team.
- Identify, contribute to and progress business generation opportunities where appropriate.
- Support marketing and social media campaigns (employee advocacy) where appropriate.
Qualifications
- Graduate calibre with relevant industry experience.
- Experience leading development of project management or project controls & performance business processes and the specification or configuration of Digital Controls solutions.
- Experience on capital projects/programmes covering multiple project controls functions (scope, schedule, cost, risk, performance reporting) in the infrastructure sector (rail, aviation, highways, utilities, defence, nuclear) or similar.
- Understanding of strategy and set‑up of target operating models and organisational design in the context of capital infrastructure delivery businesses, integrated project controls & performance functions or PMO set‑ups (advantageous).
- Experience of business transformations and associated change management activities.
- Familiarity with capability/maturity assessments across capital delivery businesses, PMO, project controls & performance or specific functions.
- Proficiency in office productivity software (Microsoft Office and Teams) and diagramming tools such as Visio, Lucid Chart or Draw.io.
- Analytical mindset and confident data manipulation and presentation skills (SQL, Power Query/Power BI, Tableau, Qlik etc. advantageous).
- Experience with specialist project management or project controls & performance software in categories such as:
- Activity planning, scheduling & Critical Path Analysis (Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Power Project, Open Plan).
- Portfolio, project and contract management (cost & change management): EcoSys, PRISM G2, Cobra, Unifier.
- Experience writing and presenting reports and navigating complex stakeholder environments; ability to engage senior stakeholders.
- Familiarity with coding and modern computer system architecture principles (advantageous).
- APM, PMI or similar certification or equivalent experience (advantageous).
Key Expected Behaviours and Ways of Working
- Proactively identify and resolve client issues, communicating lessons learnt.
- Build strong professional client relationships, challenging behaviours appropriately.
- Express ideas with clarity, focusing on key points.
- Listen effectively to understand wider issues and impact.
- Show determination to achieve set goals.
- Maintain resilience despite obstacles or setbacks.
- Take personal responsibility for actions and issue resolution.
- Encourage active participation and positive contribution from all.
- Collaborate with others internally and externally to achieve project and business goals.
- Analyze information quickly and efficiently.
- Use appropriate mix of analysis, intuition and judgement to decide on the most suitable solution.
Equal Opportunity & Diversity Statement
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work‑life balance.
SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.
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