Project controls manager - puma

Bilfinger UK is a leading engineering and maintenance provider, supporting customers across the chemical & petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & biopharma, power & energy, utilities, renewables and food & beverage markets. We enhance the efficiency of assets, ensuring a high level of availability and reducing maintenance costs.

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

1. Programme Leadership and Ownership
1. Lead the development, maintenance and governance of the integrated project programme in Primavera P6, ensuring the schedule is robust, executable and aligned to contract requirements, WBS/coding structures, resource loading, milestones and critical path logic.
2. Own the baseline, current and revised programme updates, including progress updates, variance analysis, critical path review, float analysis and reporting of delay or recovery positions.
3. Manage integration of programme inputs from multiple parties and ensure alignment between construction activities, procurement, fabrication, subcontractors, external interfaces and client constraints.
2. Site-Facing Controls Management
1. Support daily/weekly construction coordination through programme meetings, short-term planning, action tracking, mitigation planning and challenge of progress or data anomalies.
2. Ensure controls outputs are practical and usable for a live construction site, including progress capture, productivity measurement, lookaheads, work sequencing, and visibility of blockers and interfaces.
3. Contractual Programme / NEC4 Management
4. Progress, Performance and Reporting
1. Own project controls reporting for PUMA, including weekly and monthly reporting cycles, project board inputs, KPI development, reporting calendars, templates and management dashboards.
2. Review and approve all planning / cost / performance information prior to issue for project reviews and board meetings, ensuring reports are clear, accurate and decision-ready.
5. Risk and Opportunity Management
1. Support quantitative schedule / risk analysis and ensure time risk allowances and mitigation measures are reflected in the live controls environment.
2. Ensure early warnings are identified promptly, discussed with stakeholders and reflected in the programme and management actions.
1. Support the development and application of rules of credit, BoQ-based progress principles, value analysis and budget/change alignment where required by the project.
2. Help ensure the project has the controls structure needed to support transparent cost and hours reporting against scope and progress.
6. Controls Systems, Standards and Improvement
1. Implement and maintain disciplined project controls processes, procedures and data structures, including coding standards, reporting requirements, activity structures and systems turnover readiness.
2. Drive continuous improvement in project controls maturity on PUMA, embedding best practice in planning, reporting, change management and site performance monitoring.
3. Support digital and data-enabled delivery, including use of reporting tools, dashboards and management information systems.

Specific Site-Based Expectations

1. Work within a project environment shaped by CDM responsibilities, live interfaces, designated laydown/logistics areas and high dependency on coordinated execution sequencing.
2. Translate field conditions, daily reports, productivity realities and package constraints into credible programme and performance outputs that the project leadership team can act upon.

Experience, Skills and Qualifications

1. Significant experience in project controls leadership on major construction / engineering / industrial projects.
2. Knowledge of risk tools / quantitative schedule risk analysis and exposure to SAP / ERP / Power BI / Microsoft reporting tools would be advantageous.

Personal Attributes

1. Strong ownership mindset and able to “run the controls engine” for a live project.
2. Comfortable being site-facing and working in a fast-moving construction environment.
3. Collaborative but prepared to challenge assumptions, poor data or weak delivery logic.

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