(Apply Now) Project Controls Manager

With offices in Australia, Africa, Canada and the Philippines, Lycopodium proudly delivers high quality professional engineering and project delivery services globally, across the resources, infrastructure and industrial processes sectors. By joining our global team and learning from renowned subject matter experts, we can offer you a diverse career that could take you anywhere in the world.

As we continue through an exciting period of growth,Lycopodiumis currently recruiting for a passionate and motivatedProject Controls Managerto join our Perth based team.

Reporting to theProject Manager,the Project Controls Manager will deliver, maintain, and manage a standard and consistent full suite of Project Controls, i.e., Cost Estimating, Cost Management, Planning & Scheduling, Risk & Change Management, progress measurement and project analysis with consistent and accurate reporting on all project activities.

The tasks you'll perform

- Assist with the creation, implementation and maintenance of Project Control Procedures and Processes, in particular cost control and scheduling.
- Provide input and support in relation to the Project Control Work Breakdown Structure.
- Assist in establishing control budget, schedule and baseline project quantities for measurement, change control, analysis, forecasting and reporting Monitor Project performance including costs, progress against schedule, safety, and internal reviews to provide a transparent assessment of critical performances across all business units.
- Evaluate project progress to ensure that it is meeting budgetary and deadline objectives.
- Recognise progress concerns and report immediately to the Project Managers to ensure projects are completed within both budgetary and schedule constraints.
- Collate and compile project reporting requirements in accordance with company and Client standards to a high level of accuracy and professionalism.
- Prepare project specific reports including progress, financial and resource information, including actual costs, earned value and forecasts.
- Manage and coordinate inputs from various team members including engineering, procurement, contracts, project and construction in order to establish detailed cost, man-hour controls and schedule.
- Co-ordination of change management in accordance with company standards and procedures.
- Manage Specific Project Control’s Team’s daily and weekly tasks.
- Provide leadership, guidance and direction to the Project Controls team as required.
- Maintain internal and external relationships
- Mentor, lead and assist with the professional development of the services team
- Undertake routine performance appraisals with the team both formal and informal

The expertise you'll bring

- 10+ years’ in a similar role with relevant industry experience (mineral processing experience highly regarded).
- Undergraduate qualification in Engineering or Accounting/Commerce.
- Thorough and extensive knowledge of Project control principles, theories, concepts, tools and reporting.
- Exceptional ability to multitask and work at pace in a complex and challenging EPCM sector.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills, with the ability to lead and motivate teams in high-pressure Project environments.
- Provide mentoring and identify avenues of professional development and succession planning for personnel within your business unit.
- Capacity to evaluate work practices, implement systems and suggest alternatives and refinements where necessary.
- A focus on creating, fostering and managing people relationships for diverse, high-performance teams.
- Ability to create a positive stakeholder management and customer support environment.

The benefits we'll provide

Lycopodium has a strong company culture focused on career progression and technical skill development. You can expect to be involved in a wide range of large projects whilst working amongst a team of highly skilled professionals.

We recognise that everyone is different and needs may change over the course of your career. That’s why we :

- Invest in our people for the long-term, building a diverse and rewarding career, mentored by the best in the industry.
- Allow our people to balance work with other commitments, like family or study, offering flexible work arrangements.
- Are undertaking significant people and technology initiatives that will support the workplace of the future.

We encourage and value diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of gender, age, disability and ethnicity, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

Our commitment to equal opportunity is embodied in our values of Respect, Integrity & Diligence. They are inherent in who we are, as individuals, and collectively as a Company.

We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.

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