Project Controls Lead

Overview:
As a Project Controls Lead at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.

The Opportunity:
In this role you will:

- Lead a multi-discipline project controls team to ensure project critical information is promptly provided to key stakeholders and assist with key decision making to ensure the project continues to meet business critical milestones
- Be responsible for project controls implementation and leadership, typically on a large project or collection of smaller projects, ensuring client requirements are adhered to throughout the project lifecycle
- Support project governance and compliance to ensure consistency of service
- Have a strong analytical & strategic approach to project delivery
- Assess Engineer and contractor bids, change notices and costs to ensure best value for clients
- Assist in preparing client project funding documents
- Be a visible leader onsite, assessing engineer and contractor progress
- Create and manage cost forecasts for key client developments
- Expertly negotiate pricing agreements with external partners
- Manage and monitor project schedules, reporting on exceptions to the plan
- Prepare owner estimates and lead estimate review meetings
- Proactively lead risk management efforts, reviews and analysis
- Be familiar with change management practices to ensure the project information remains relevant and up to date
- Support the final reconciliation of contracts and purchase orders
- Update key partners with monthly executive and project status reports, cost & cashflow reports, project schedule updates, and project risk reports.

We would love to hear from you if you:

- Are collaborative and supportive, with the ability to work autonomously and who can engage with and influence, project teams
- Have a Construction or Engineering-related degree or industry-recognised technical or management qualification
- Have experience in project controls and process improvements
- Relevant technical industry qualifications (from institutions such as RICS, PMI, APM, and AACE) plus management & leadership experience within Project Controls
- Awareness of Project Controls software packages and ability to discuss the benefits
- Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to engage with and deliver to internal and external Senior Executives
- Have successfully performed project controls roles including cost control, scheduling, change management and estimating
- Love a dynamic environment with the opportunity to manage your own priorities and deadlines
- Thrive on building strong relationships with your team and clients through a shared purpose and sense of openness and fun
- Experience in the following sectors is an advantage - Life Sciences, Data Centres, Renewable & Alternative Energies, or Hi-Tech Manufacturing.

About us:
Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team

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