Project Controls (Cost/Schedule/Risk) - EOI

About the role

Turner & Townsend's Energy & Natural Resources team is growing and is seeking experienced and aspiring cost and commercial managers. It offers Project Controls positions in Sydney and surrounding areas covering Cost, Schedule and/or Risk, working on major energy projects in Clean Energy, Transmission & Distribution, Conventional & Low Carbon Energy and Mining. The Project Controls Engineer/Manager leads Cost, Schedule and/or Risk commissions, takes responsibility for end-to-end service delivery on large or complex projects and acts as the main day-to-day client interface.

Key responsibilities

• Work in or manage project controls teams on major projects and programmes, showing collaboration and leadership.
• Planning and scheduling: plan projects and programmes aligned to client goals, build detailed schedules, allocate resources and set timelines.
• Cost control: forecast costs, report costs, analyse variances, review project costs, challenge cost submissions and maintain cost control systems.
• Risk management: define and deliver the risk scope, carry out expert analyses (e.g. QCRA, QSRA) for stakeholders and senior management, and maintain risk registers.
• Assurance and audits: run independent reviews so project data is high quality, challenged and rationalised.
• Deliver project status to stakeholders, recommend recovery plans and mitigation strategies.

Required profile

• Experience in at least one discipline of project controls (planning, performance and reporting, risk, cost control, change, governance and strategy).
• Experience on major programmes and projects in Energy and Natural Resources or Infrastructure.
• Ability to work across cost, schedule, risk, performance and reporting, change control and multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong oral and written communication and report writing.
• Desirable: line management experience and bid/proposal preparation.

Required skills

• Working knowledge of project controls systems such as Primavera, Microsoft Project, Asta Powerproject, SAP, Ecosys, @Risk, Safran, Active Risk Manager (ARM) and Power BI, with advice on the best fit for each client.
• Knowledge of best practice project controls principles and how client life cycles, contracts, commercial and procurement strategies shape project controls execution.