Project Controls Manager

Technical Staffing Resources (TSR) are the in-house agency and master vendor for KBR, a leading global engineering, construction, and services company.
KBR supports the hydrocarbon and government services markets on six continents, serving their customers through diverse business units and offering challenging assignments on some of the world's largest and most complex projects.

As a Project Controls Manager at KBR, you will be responsible for coordinating and supporting the development of the project baseline across scope, time, cost, risk, and quality for a development or delivery area of the KBR Programme. This includes providing strategic insight and analysis of performance against the baseline and highlighting any trends, risks, or opportunities to support decision making. The role will also coordinate and support controls governance and change management to ensure all impacts to the baseline are assessed and managed.

About The Role

1. To be responsible for developing and maintaining an integrated programme baseline across scope, time, cost, risk, and quality and track performance for project(s) and contract.
2. To create and maintain the programme management control processes.
3. To develop and maintain data roll-up interfaces and standards from Company Contractor tools in use at the Contractor boundaries.
4. To be responsible for managing and coordinating project controls activities within the supply chain, for projects or contracts to assure the accuracy and quality of cost, risk, and schedule information being captured.
5. To be accountable for analysing the data and reports submitted and providing insights & trends on performance and risks to support decision making.
6. To be responsible for managing the periodic correlation of schedule, cost, quality, and risk to drive expedient programme delivery and manage performance whilst capturing and analysing cost data, including inputting cost data into KBR to selected data capture systems.
7. To be responsible for reviewing supply chain programme submissions and updating client schedules.
8. To be accountable for managing risks for a development or delivery area of the KBR Programme, leveraging SME advice and technical knowledge from specialists to respond to project delays, issues, and other challenges throughout the project.
9. To be responsible for managing and coordinating the change management process, ensuring impacts to the baseline are effectively assessed and managed.
10. To be responsible for managing the coordination and communication of the Period reporting cycle ensuring compliance with the reporting life cycle, and undertaking self-assessment of procedural compliance, sharing lessons and best practice within the Project Controls community.
11. To be responsible for managing the assurance of Project Controls Data and for ensuring adherence with Project Management Office (PMO) and Project Controls policies, processes, and standards for a development or delivery area of the KBR Programme.
12. To be responsible for providing functional line management, performance management, and objective setting support to direct reports.
13. Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.

About You: Skills

1. Clear Direction - Ability to give clear direction, defining and prioritising objectives, analysing inputs, assessing and challenging data, defining strategies and supporting rationales.
2. Stakeholder management - Ability to manage stakeholders, building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders as appropriate.
3. Effective verbal and written communication skills - Ability to present at Portfolio level; communicate on project controls updates and processes to project and supply chain teams, citing a wide range of examples of application.
4. Influencing & Negotiating Skills – including internal and external stakeholders.
5. Facilitation - Ability to manage workshops to solve critical problems and provide clear direction to team members on the actions needed to manage and mitigate any critical issues.
6. Problem Solving – Ability to identify multifaceted problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
7. Data Analysis and Presentation - Ability to analyse and interpret data and produce accurate, timely, and informative reports in multiple formats targeted to the needs of the audience.

Knowledge

1. Knowledge of the core Project Controls disciplines, including; Schedule Management, Cost Management, Change Management, and Risk Management.
2. Knowledge of baseline development and maintenance of baselines on a programme.
3. Knowledge of the Project and Commercial Management principles including understanding of cost delivery and schedule targets.
4. Understanding of NEC contracts, amendments, early warning notices, and the workflows of communications between contractor and client.

Type Of Experience

1. Experience in project controls on major projects/programmes including the oversight of multi-contractor teams.
2. Experience in project controls on major projects/programmes including the management of multi-discipline project controls teams.
3. Experience in the core project controls functions, including; baseline maintenance, schedule management, cost performance, change management, risk management, and performance reporting.
4. Experienced in the management and control of key Project Controls systems (e.g., Primavera P6).
5. Experience of managing and/or influencing governance forums including project change and investment boards with delegated decision-making powers of multi-millions of pounds.

The post-holder is expected to always behave in a manner consistent with the KBR values of “Safety, Leadership, Integrity, and Respect”.