Key Responsibilities
The Senior Project Controls Specialist will maintain the project control baselines used to manage the project, monitor change and progress, identify trends and risks, and evaluate performance, to support project decisions. The role is also responsible for providing the Project Controls Lead and project managers with information on the scope, progress, costs and forecast completion, whilst actively managing the project.
- Own the day-to-day cost control function for assigned projects, working directly with project managers and the Project Controls Lead.
- Establish and maintain project budgets, control accounts, cost codes and cost baselines in accordance with the approved scope and commercial arrangements.
- Prepare and maintain forecasts, estimate at completion, cash flow, commitments, accruals and value of work done, and reconcile these against financial systems and project records.
- Monitor actual and committed costs, revenue, invoicing, margin and project performance; investigate variances and data inconsistencies and recommend corrective action.
- Support change control by maintaining variation and change registers, assessing cost and schedule impacts, and ensuring approved changes are reflected in project baselines and forecasts.
- Produce accurate, concise project performance reports, including cost and schedule trends, risks and forecasting metrics.
- Maintain and analyse project schedules, progress updates, milestones and look-aheads; identify slippage, emerging constraints and cost-schedule impacts. Experience in P6 or MS Project is highly valued.
- Coordinate project controls inputs across project managers, technical leads, and delivery teams, following up actions and closing information gaps.
- Maintain project registers and controlled project records, including deliverables, decisions, changes, correspondence and reporting inputs.
- Support project setup, governance reviews, reporting cycles and closeout, ensuring required controls are proportionate to project size, complexity and risk.
- Contribute to project estimates, estimate reviews and budget development using available scope, quantities, rates, assumptions and historical information; document the basis and limitations of estimates.
- Work within and help improve Egis project controls processes, templates and systems, including the Oracle ecosystem.
- Provide early, direct advice to project managers and the Project Controls Lead on adverse trends, commercial exposure, forecast overruns, delays or unreliable project data.