Head of Project Controls & Performance
South Wales | Senior Leadership Role | Major UK Industrial Project | Salary Negotiable
Introduction
Acorn by Synergie is searching for a Head of Project Controls & Performance to join the senior leadership team of a long-established global industrial organisation with a major UK manufacturing footprint based in South Wales.
This is a pivotal role within a £1bn-scale industrial megaproject, accountable for defining and embedding a robust project controls framework to deliver predictable outcomes across cost, schedule, safety, and quality.
Key Duties
1. Define, embed, and continually evolve the project controls framework covering cost, schedule, risk, change, document control, and integrated performance reporting.
2. Drive consistency across the programme through common tools, systems, and ways of working.
3. Set and manage cost and schedule baselines, applying robust estimating, forecasting, Earned Value techniques, and schedule management using industry-standard tools such as Primavera P6.
4. Establish effective risk and opportunity management disciplines and own the change control process.
5. Produce clear and timely performance insight, including variance analysis and executive-level dashboards, to support senior and board-level decision-making.
6. Build, lead, and develop a ...