Project Controls Engineer

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

As a Project Controls Engineer, you will be responsible for providing comprehensive project controls support to ensure successful project delivery. You will work closely with project (controls) managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to develop and maintain cost estimates, project schedules and risk management plans. Your expertise will contribute to the efficient execution of projects within the Infrastructure department.

Key accountabilities

• You develop a project controls mindset and career path with a focus on Risk Management first. Your responsibility is to advise on, develop and  maintain project risk registers, facilitate risk management meetings and report to internal project leads and the client. You participate and support quantitative risk analysis (QRA) processes, both schedule risks & cost risks.
• Your responsibility is to ensure that all measures in your control are taken to finish the work within the given frame regarding cost and time, with special emphasis on the projects prioritized objectives. The Project Controls Engineer also supports the Project Controls Manager in all aspects to keep the project(s) under control, allowing the successful achievement of the given project goals.
• You will participate in the development and implementation of project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and Cost Breakdown structures (CBS) in concert with project manager, project controls manager, Schedule and/or Cost Lead and contractor project controls lead and in conjunction with Project Execution Plans.
• You will participate in applying first principles estimating, prepare capital cost estimates to meet industry standard estimate classification guidelines, support key tendering activities including preparation of pre-tender estimates.
• Analyse project change and the provision of feedback on areas of risk and opportunities, analyse and assess costs and estimates provided by suppliers and contractors, provide process and technical estimating support production of feasibility studies and provide estimating support to manage project budget and scope (Value Engineering)
• You will support in the implementation of Project Planning & Scheduling strategy, plans and procedures, reflecting both company and contractor roles, responsibilities and expectations.
• You will develop and maintain the overall integration schedule in concert with the project team. Prepare reports on a regular basis to pinpoint improvement areas and trends.
• Check the integrity of contractor schedules within the suite of P6 project schedules which includes reviewing schedule durations, dependencies and logic, recommending improvements where possible, reviewing cost and resource loading and validating schedule revisions.
• You will perform critical path analysis and comparisons to the baseline of the contractor provided schedules.
• You will prepare regular reports and collect data in support of company and client benchmarking and run reports that identify cost and schedule trend data. These reports will be shared with the client and then you will help guide the Contractor on how they can manage or control the trends.
• You will work close together with the project team in order to control cost and the schedule.

Qualifications

Business development, to include:

• Support the development of allocated sector/service/client marketing action plans
• Provide and update contact and lead information for incorporation onto the database
• Support the commission manager in client care activity for your commissions
• Support in produce / maintain case studies for your commissions
• Identifying cross selling opportunities with current clients
• Identifying new opportunities with current clients
• Support new bids
• Support Group marketing initiatives

Health, safety and wellbeing

• Participate in Turner & Townsend health, safety and wellbeing related initiatives.
• Conform to local and national laws and guidelines, observing all safety regulations.
• Conform to the Turner & Townsend Europe Limited (Energy) safety and security regulations and/ or Turner & Townsend Europe Limited (Netherlands branch) ISO45001 safety and security regulations.
• Commitment to implementation of the Risk – Assessment and Evaluation (Dutch legislation ArboWET, RI&E) policy/ procedure.

People

• Coach/ mentor/ line manage staff as agreed.
• Maintain personal Learning & Development (L&D) plan, including the development of professional competency level to agreed targets.
• Timely participation and completion of all mandatory training courses and those additionally identified in your L&D plan.
• Maintain (including regular updates ie. on the completion of a commission or at least once per year) personal CV via T2 People Pages.
• Participate in Turner & Townsend CR related initiatives.

Additional Information

At Turner & Townsend we want our people to succeed in both work and life, we promote a healthy, productive and flexible environment. In addition, you can expect:

• A competitive salary based on the position and your experience;
• 25 vacation days with the option to purchase additional days;
• Conveniently located offices in Amsterdam and Eindhoven;
• A business travel card for public transportation in the Netherlands;
• A laptop and mobile phone;
• Career opportunities that are tailored to your ambition;
• Working on high-profile projects with international opportunities;
• Monthly social team events where you get to know your colleagues better informally (barbecuing, a graffiti workshop, making chocolates, padel/golf/running)

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