Senior Project Controls Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 23, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 21, 2026. Turner & Townsend scores B on the Alion truth index.
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.
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At Turner & Townsend our award-winning Controls & Performance team are focused on driving innovation, enhancing our client’s integrated controls capability, improving performance, and delivering better programme outcomes. We have a growing national team of over 650 Controls & Performance professionals. The breadth and scale of our team provide great opportunities to reach back and draw upon a vast pool of experience to enhance your knowledge and career. Our strong capability, discipline communities and varied client base, provides a great opportunity to drive your career, supported by our career pathways.
We have exciting opportunities for Senior Project Controls Engineer in Cost to join our expanding Infrastructure team, who are undertaking a range of Controls & Performance duties on high-profile Infrastructure major projects and programmes. Due to continued growth across the UK water, wastewater and infrastructure sectors, we are seeking experienced professionals to contribute to cost management whilst supporting the wider cost control team. Additionally, this role will provide the opportunity to innovate, collaborate and learn from our wider Controls and Performance community.
As a Senior Project Controls Engineer focused on planning, you will support the Planning Lead in reviewing, developing and implementing processes, procedures and systems for planning, estimating, budgeting, funding, managing and controlling schedules so that projects can be completed within approved timescales. You will provide guidance and inputs for planning and scheduling throughout delivery of the projects and programmes, helping to ensure that processes and controls are applied consistently and effectively across projects by delivery partners and appointed contractors. You will support planning across the programme, with a focus on accurate forecasting, issue and trend analysis and embedding a culture of mitigating delays.
Senior Project Controls Engineers at Turner & Townsend:
Senior Project Controls Engineers at Turner & Townsend work on a broad range of projects and programmes in the Utilities sector, including clean and wastewater treatment facilities, mains installation and replacement, environmental improvement, asset management, developer service, Major Projects, Strategic Resource Options, and many more. We are looking for individuals with the following skills, experience and attributes:
- Demonstrable experience within the infrastructure, engineering, or construction industry, with a proven track record of delivering complex projects and programmes in a client-facing environment
- Strong experience using Primavera P6 or similar planning software to support the development, maintenance and updating of project schedules against baseline
- Experience delivering schedule, cost and progress information from project teams to support reporting, forecasting and performance monitoring
- Experience operating in a project controls environment adhering to governance requirements and performance reporting standards, with the ability to identify trends, risks and issues and highlight findings to the project team
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work with project managers, delivery teams, contractors and client representatives
- Ensure effective baseline management and alignment with contractual and governance requirements
- Assure compliance with relevant contract requirements (NEC, etc.) and ensure planning obligations are met
- Understanding of cost-schedule-risk alignment and the benefits it provides for decision-making
- Focus on data quality, controls assurance and reporting accuracy is essential, alongside the ability to challenge performance, promote best practice and drive consistent project controls standards across the team
- Experience producing project controls reports, dashboards and schedule information to inform project decision-making
- Good analytical skills and proficiency in Microsoft Excel, with the ability to interpret complex project and programme information
- Ability to take ownership of assigned tasks, use initiative and manage competing priorities to meet deadlines
- Collaborative approach with a commitment to teamworking, knowledge sharing and maintaining consistent standards across the project controls function
- Demonstrable experience in the successful delivery of major programmes, managing complex stakeholder environments, multidisciplinary teams, significant budgets, and strategic project objectives
- Demonstrates a strong understanding of operating within a consultancy environment, acting as a trusted advisor to clients while maintaining independence from both client and supplier organisations, and balancing multiple stakeholder needs to achieve successful project outcomes
Minimum Expectations
- Client Base - Peterborough and/or client site 3 -5 days a week
- Home office in a Turner & Townsend location - London, Birmingham, Nottingham
- Have a full driving licence, access to a vehicle, and confidence to travel to locations
- Full-time
- Experience within the UK water sector, utilities or other regulated infrastructure environments, including delivery within an AMP framework
- Knowledge of different contracting and delivery models and their implications for planning
- Experience implementing and maintaining frameworks within a programme management office or across a portfolio of projects
- Knowledge of quality management and process improvement practices within construction or infrastructure delivery
- Experience working within alliance, framework or collaborative delivery models
- Understanding of the design and delivery requirements of technically complex infrastructure, engineering or construction projects
- Proven track record of operating in major project environments, including high-value water projects or projects of a similar scale and complexity, to enable achievement of project goals and objectives
- Knowledge of earned value management, risk management, cost control, change control and integrated project controls methodologies
Qualifications:
- Degree in Engineering, Construction, Quantity Surveying, Cost Management, Project Management or a related discipline is desirable; equivalent relevant professional experience is also welcomed
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and relevant planning and project controls software, with experience using Primavera P6, Asta, OPP or equivalent tools
- Strong working knowledge and practical experience of NEC contracts, including the administration, management and successful delivery of projects under NEC frameworks, with an ability to proactively manage risk, programme, compensation events and stakeholder relationships
- Membership or working towards membership of, a relevant professional institution such as APM, CaSA, or equivalent
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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
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Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:
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.
Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.