Associate Director - Project Controls

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Sector: Construction and Building Services

Role: Associate

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

At Mace, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We believe in creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities and societies across the globe. To learn more about our purpose, culture, and priorities, visit our strategy site.

Within our consult business, we harness our unique combination of leading-edge practical expertise and project delivery consultancy to unlock the potential in every project.

Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey, they are:

• Safety first - Going home safe and well
• Client focus - Deliver on our promise
• Integrity - Always do the right thing
• Create opportunity - For our people to excel

The project controls lead will work within the programme management office (PMO) on behalf of the programme partner (PrP), liaising with a variety of stakeholders across the programme, reporting to the Head of PMO. This role will require a person who can get SC clearance. This role will require 2 days per week based in Newbury, Berkshire.

You'll be responsible for:

• Supporting the prioritisation and delivery of strategic initiatives.
• Providing oversight of key PMO tasks / exercises.
• Co-ordinating and driving cross discipline integration in support of baseline management and reporting.
• Unlocking cross partnership integration ensuring consistency of approach.
• Deputing for PMO lead as and when required.
• Providing line management and guidance to PMO baseline manager and other disciplines within the PMO.
• Supporting resourcing activities when required.
• Supporting operational aspects of the PRP PMO.

You'll need to have:

• Strong communication skills with the ability to present information and communicate to individuals at all levels of an organisation.
• Outstanding organisational skills, capable of managing multiple activities and timelines.
• Working knowledge of project controls methods, techniques and tools that would support baseline management and earned value.
• Able to interface with multidisciplinary teams and take lead role in creating plan for a plan and driving exercises through to completion.
• Focus on attention to details and checking project controls inputs, recording and reports produced.
• Experience working in a fast-moving project environment essential.
• Qualifications (MSP or APMG - practitioner) or related experience in project controls for example, trend and change management, earned value management or scope management.
• Experience working on large infrastructure project or programmes.
• Experience of nuclear or high security sectors desirable.

You'll also have:

• Passion driven - sense of belonging, aligned to vision and programme ideology.
• Act inclusively, treating all with respect and driving diverse thinking - open minded and act inclusively.
• Delivering excellence - outcome driven, identifying opportunities.
• Integrity - complimentary and collaborative.
• Embed and embrace culture of health, safety, and wellbeing with safety at the heart of everything we do.
• Safeguarding and protecting the planet - adopting a sustainable approach, making the right decisions to protect our world.
• Project-life balance - happiness.
• Challenging the status quo in pursuit of a better future - best in class and ahead of the curve, open to change.
• Value led approach - driven by future needs, bringing a better solution.
• Ever evolving - sustainable economically / people perspective.

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all of the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation.

We are also open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.

Company

If you can bring a different perspective to help us shape the cities of tomorrow, take a look at the opportunities we have to join us.

Fortune favours the brave - and so do we.

At Mace we empower our people to be collaborative, curious and embrace their entrepreneurial spirits. We aim to attract the best and brightest people, whatever their background, to bring new perspectives to some of the most challenging and inspiring projects around the world.

You might be part of our healthcare team delivering critical hospital care units, or our education team creating schools to inspire our future leaders. You could be a graduate working on the world’s tallest building, or be managing the construction of world-leading cultural landmarks. Whatever your passion, we have an opportunity that will bring out the best in you.

At Mace we want you to feel comfortable from day 1, so for any questions about a career at Mace, including application advice, please contact paul.deaville@macegroup.com for a confidential chat.

Our clients say that it’s our people that make the difference.

Our people think harder, do better and go further. Every day at Mace is an opportunity to think and do things differently. We were founded more than 30 years ago, and every day our entrepreneurial culture plays a huge role in our success. We exist to seek out the world’s most interesting projects that challenge and excite us.

We want our employees to thrive and achieve their highest potential. We are passionate about creating an environment that provides opportunities for the most stimulating and fulfilling careers. We encourage innovation and welcome new perspectives by attracting and developing people with diverse talent who inspire our thinking, challenge our solutions and enhance our culture.

At Mace you can deepen your knowledge, expand your skills, see the world and get to work with both inspiring colleagues and influential clients – whatever your passion, we have an opportunity that will bring out the best in you.

Reward and recognition

We invest in our people and provide a strong benefits package, which in the UK includes:

• 22 days of holiday, plus two ‘Mace Days’ to support work-life balance, bank holidays and December holiday shut down
• Contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Highly competitive maternity and paternity package
• Reimbursement of professional subscriptions and membership fees
• Season ticket loan
• Annual health screening
• Private medical insurance
• Sponsorship of education schemes (on approval)
• Continuous on the job training and development
• Cycle to work scheme
• Our international benefit packages are comparable. Please contact our recruitment team for more information.

We know that many parents can face challenges when balancing the demands of work and their home lives. At Mace, we fully support our people when they choose to balance their career with family life. We offer enhanced family leave, as well as options for flexible working and alternative working patterns to support and improve the work-life balance of our employees.

Our performance management and appraisal approach is based on ability and talent. Top performers are recognised for both their contribution to projects and their broader contribution to the business.

At Mace we appreciate the differences that everyone brings to work and we recognise the importance of people being free to be themselves.

Regardless of age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, or affiliation to any political party, we embrace diversity and believe in creating an inclusive environment where every Mace person is treated equally, fairly and with respect.

We are proud partners of Stonewall’s global diversity champions programme that ensures all LGBT+ staff are accepted without exception at Mace.

Mace’s corporate purpose statement is ‘Redefining the boundaries of ambition’.

Support for disabled employees is provided by:

Our recruitment and HR Teams have undertaken disability awareness training and are eager to provide an inclusive and accessibility experience to job applicants and new colleagues.

Enabled at Mace – employee network. Its aims are to support its members and, to "to raise awareness and remove barriers around disability, neurodiversity and other impairments” to support their aim to create an inclusive and diverse workplace for everyone.

Disability Confident – We are using the requirements of the government scheme to create an inclusive environment for disabled job applicants and existing colleagues.

Clear Assured – an externally verified accreditation around equality, diversity and inclusion practice across our business, driving improvements to our policies, processes and practices.

Recite Me – an assistive technology tool that provides access support to all employees. It is located on our intranet site, our website and job vacancy platform.

Mace are member of the Business Disability Forum, giving access to a wide range of resources and information. Our line managers have access to their confidential support line.