Project Controls Lead (Permanent)

at  Babcock International

Babcock’s Purpose is to create a safe and secure world, together. Our Principles create the foundation for how we will do this. They keep us on the right course, unify the way we work and guide us towards success. By thinking, connecting, and acting in line with these Principles, we’ll deliver better outcomes for our Culture, Customers and Communities. Collectively at Babcock, our employees embody the Principles that help make us great at what we do:

• Challenge the status quo, Be Curious, and ask, ‘how might we?’
• Whenever measuring success, Think: Outcomes and positive impacts.
• Be Kind to ourselves, each other, and our planet.
• Babcock employees Collaborate – we are greater than the sum of our parts,
• Be Courageous – be brave, ambitious, and determined.
• Everyone has a part to play - Own and Deliver to be successful

In this role, you will:

• Report directly to the Project Controls Manager and provide project control services for production and design-based Waterfront projects
• Contribute to Project Control process improvements and development of processes and procedures for new Waterfront projects
• Implement best practice Project Controls in accordance with Babcock procedures and commercial arrangements
• Responsible for managing, and keeping alignment between schedule, progress, cost, planning and change management databases
• Responsible for weekly earned value management reporting, analysis, and communication
• Develop and maintain suite of project control metrics and reports used for briefing internal and external stakeholders
• Provide accurate and effective management information to support KPI reporting
• Ensure production of accurate project, programme and operational reporting in the required format and in accordance with required deadlines
• Liaise with Babcock Finance to ensure all corporate financial reporting needs are supported and met by operations
• Support to produce monthly project Estimate at Completion (EAC) and ad-hoc cost reporting requirements
• Facilitate EAC reviews, comprehensive variance analysis and identification of trends and developing mitigations to address baseline variances
• Produce ad-hoc forecasts and revised budgets as requested
• Support in the management and administration of contractual changes
• Support and facilitate project close out reporting requirements
• Provide guidance and contribute in the development to project controls team members, including mentoring and coaching of junior staff
• Liaise with operational management to provide project control support
• Must effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders
• Attend customer and supplier meetings as required
• Perform other duties as necessar