Program Controls Manager

4 weeks ago


Brisbane, Australia Turner & Townsend Full time

Company Description

Are you interested in working on some of the world’s most exciting projects, with some of the world’s leading businesses?

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. Every day we help our clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects in over 114 offices and 47 countries worldwide.

At Turner & Townsend, we offer a wide variety of benefits to our staff to help them inside or outside of the work. We offer true work life balance, working from home arrangements, team events and much more. 

Our Infrastructure team has been helping the largest Aviation, Rail, Power and Utilities clients across Australia with their complex projects. We have a new role for a  Program Controls Cost Lead  who can lead the teams across the full lifecycle of project through excellent interface management and stake holder management.

Job Description

Turner & Townsend will give you the opportunity to work with world class clients on cutting edge projects and to build a successful career with a company that will offer the highest levels of support at every stage.

We work on projects of all sizes from one-off developments to mega-programmes, from planning the future development of international airports to site based construction of individual buildings, or the largest rail infrastructure projects in the country. We cover everything from leading teams, planning works, tracking progress and business case delivery to bringing assets into use. 

The main purpose of the Program Controls Cost Lead is to optimise project success by delivering against agreed program objectives. Some of the key specifications we attribute to the purpose include:

Assuring that the cost management of the program is governed by controlled processes, procedures and tools. Integrating program level data and producing the program level cost reporting including productivity and performance data production and analysis. Providing program-level aspects of budget management, change management, forecasting, reporting, managing and controlling of all the costs, assets and liabilities associated with and arising from the planning, design, procurement, commercial, construction and commissioning process. Change management including review of project and program trends. Providing support to the financial management and accounting procedures. Capturing and sharing lessons learned and implementing continuous improvement on cost initiatives, cost management processes and controls. Dealing effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes.

Qualifications

Minimum of 10+ years working in a Project Controls role. Bachelor's Degree in appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience. Experience working in the infrastructure and/or construction sector. Experience of managing multiple concurrent projects at various stages of delivery. Experience operating at various stages in the project lifecycle. Strong stakeholder management skills including coordination and communication. Self-motivated team player with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV’s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application.

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. 

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