Description

Chart your own course and change the world — with the support of people whose interests are aligned with yours. At Burns & McDonnell, opportunity is waiting. We’re looking for people with big ideas and an entrepreneurial mindset. It’s those kinds of people who’ve helped us grow from a small consulting business back in 1898 to a global leader in engineering, architecture and construction solutions. Today, we’re a thriving company with over 10,000 professionals working in 55 offices worldwide and recognised as a leader in mission critical services.

We’re growing our UK business and have exciting opportunities for experienced and motivated engineers to join us in our London office as we continue our journey to help make our clients successful. We have an opportunity for a senior project controls specialist to join our team, working on a variety of high-tech building design and construction projects. Project focus would initially be data centres and telecommunications facilities and would grow to include a variety of other facilities including pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, manufacturing, airports, or institutional.

If you are excited about working with one of the leading engineering companies in the world, helping to make our clients successful, then we want to hear from you. We are Burns & McDonnell and we Create Amazing.

This role sits within our global facilities services Mission Critical team, providing an opportunity to build your career and your team to serve this expanding sector. The key tasks and responsibilities are as follows:

The Senior Project Controls Specialist leads project controls processes and consults with the project management team to ensure client satisfaction. Presents and elaborate schedule, status reports to the wider team.

• Comprehensive understanding of project control methodologies and associated systems such as Primavera P6, MSP, and other systems

• Providing a range of project control services including input to the establishing of systems, implementing planning controls, scheduling and prioritisation, monitoring and reporting, and dashboard reporting

• Responsible for schedule management and earned value management

• Build tender schedules for substation projects, so must be able to interpret drawings and client information and understand the general sequence of construction for Mission Critical Project specially Data Centre.

• Build design schedules with the design team.

• Analysis and evaluation of schedule management involving the critical path of scheduling techniques.

• Impact analysis of delays and change events and implementation of agreed Compensation Events

• Support the risk management process

• Knowledge of relevant industry regulations, standards, and protocols

• Developing a thorough understanding of client requirements to deliver appropriate solutions and the ability to articulate these to clients.

• Provide leadership and training to team members ensuring the resolution of difficult project control issues.

• Appreciation and understanding of CDM regulations and working in a “high compliance” industry.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in engineering, construction management or related field and 7 years of direct project controls / planning experience required or

• Applicable experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

• Must have the right interpersonal skills and communication skills to build a culture of trust with the project team.

• Experience working within the Data Centre sector.

• The ability to thrive in pressure situations.

• Excellent organizational, communication, and time management skills.

• Be able to work on own initiative.

• Computer literate.

• Primavera P6 - Expert Level.

• Power Bi - Professional Level

• Oracle Primavera Cloud experience.

• Must have commercial awareness and understand the effect of site-based activities on the project's financial performance.

• Must be able to communicate professionally and effectively, particularly to external parties such as the client, their customers, and local authorities.

Job Project Controls

Primary Location GB-London, UK-London

Schedule: Full-time

Travel: Yes, 25 % of the Time

Req ID: 243000

Job Hire Type Experienced #LI-JA #UKO N/A