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Project Controls Manager

Edinburgh, Scotland

Assignment ID:

3000185

Location: Hybrid / Onsite (Edinburgh) ~3 days per week on site
IR35: Outside
Rate: up to £400 per day
Contract duration: 1 year +
Right to work: UK (required)
No agent applications please


Application timeline

Application Closing date: Rolling (applications reviewed upon receipt)
Interviews to commence: Upon shortlist
Provisional Start date: To be agreed 


About the role

We are recruiting a Project Controls Lead to support a growing function and embed recent ways of working across an integrated project team (IPT).
You will be accountable for the quality and integrity of project controls across projects/programmes, applying consistent processes, governance, and best-practice methods.


Working within the IPT, you will drive schedule quality, apply schedule risk analysis, and ensure partner/subcontractor schedules integrate cleanly. You’ll run “what-if”/scenario analysis to inform decisions and risk mitigation, ensure appropriate metrics (including EV) are applied and acted upon, and optimise resource scheduling across the portfolio.
The role includes contributing project-controls leadership to bids/tenders for smooth transition into execution, leading inputs to project reviews, and coaching/mentoring the wider controls community to uplift capability.


Experience & Qualifications

Must Have;

  • Extensive, demonstrable project controls experience across initiation, planning, and execution on complex programmes.

  • Expert user of Primavera P6 (and/or an enterprise planning/ERP      tool).

  • Proven application of Schedule Risk Analysis (identification,      analysis methods, recommendations).

  • Strong grasp of EV/metrics, governance, and best-practice planning      techniques (including Agile-aware delivery).

  • Ability to lead within an IPT, influence cross-functional teams, and      present to senior stakeholders.

  • Experience coaching, mentoring, or leading a small team.

  • Works independently, knows when to escalate, and can act as delegate for a      Project/Programme Controls Manager.

  • Eligible for UK baseline personnel security screening (BPSS) and      potentially SC/DV.

Desirable;

  • APMG Project Controls Foundation/Practitioner (or readiness to undertake).

  • Familiarity with wider project controls/reporting toolsets (e.g., ERP, cost, and risk      systems).

  • Commercial/financial acumen and partner/subcontractor schedule integration experience.


Job Types: Contract (Full-time)

Pay: up to £400 per day
Expected hours: ~40 per week

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