Job Description

Our award-winning Integrated Project Controls (IPC) Team, within the Infrastructure & PMO Operating Unit, is a trusted partner to both public and private sector clients across the UK and globally. We lead in delivering Controls Analytics solutions across Cost, Risk, Planning, and Performance Controls, supporting large-scale infrastructure and capital projects. By combining advanced analytics with best-in-class project controls, our team enables clients to make informed, data-led decisions that drive the success of their assets and investments.

Start here. Grow here

As part of our ongoing growth, we are seeking an experienced Project Director - Project Controls to spearhead high-impact analytics initiatives and lead a team of professionals in delivering transformative project controls solutions. This role is an opportunity to shape strategic controls frameworks and analytics methodologies at the project and programme levels, ensuring project risks, costs, and schedules are managed with data-backed precision. The successful candidate will work closely with senior executives, driving collaboration across multidisciplinary teams to enhance project performance.

As a Project Director, you will lead the design, implementation, and governance of controls analytics solutions on complex infrastructure projects. Your role will encompass strategic oversight and operational leadership in project controls analytics, ensuring data-driven insights are leveraged to manage project risks, control costs, and drive decision-making. This role is essential for ensuring project outcomes align with client goals and delivering value through high-level controls and analytics expertise.

Here’s what you’ll do

Strategic Leadership in Controls Analytics:

• Lead the development and execution of a comprehensive controls analytics strategy across large-scale projects, providing insights to improve project performance.
• Direct and oversee analytics initiatives across multiple project dimensions, including cost, schedule, and risk, ensuring alignment with client objectives and industry best practices.
• Act as the primary advisor to executive-level stakeholders on project controls strategy, analytics insights, and value-added recommendations.

Project Controls Governance & Compliance:

• Define and implement governance structures and compliance frameworks to ensure controls analytics are applied consistently across projects.
• Ensure adherence to industry standards and regulatory guidelines, championing best practices in data management, analytics, and project controls.
• Regularly review and refine controls analytics methodologies to stay at the forefront of industry advancements and client requirements.

Advanced Analytics & Reporting Oversight:

• Direct the creation and integration of advanced data analytics models to drive predictive insights and support strategic project decisions.
• Oversee the design of analytics dashboards and reporting tools, ensuring they provide timely, actionable insights for both internal teams and clients.
• Develop key performance indicators (KPIs) and analytics metrics to track project health and drive continuous improvement.

Risk & Contingency Management Leadership:

• Lead the integration of risk analytics into project controls, enabling proactive risk management and informed decision-making.
• Collaborate closely with risk and project teams to ensure risk impacts are quantified, contingency plans are in place, and corrective actions are identified and implemented.

Stakeholder Engagement & Executive Communication:

• Foster high-trust relationships with client executives and project stakeholders, translating complex controls analytics insights into actionable strategies.
• Facilitate workshops and knowledge-sharing sessions, promoting a deep understanding of controls analytics and its strategic impact.
• Serve as the point of escalation for project controls issues, providing expert guidance on resolving high-impact challenges.

Team Development & Mentorship:

• Build and mentor a high-performing team of controls analytics professionals, guiding their development and fostering a culture of continuous learning.
• Establish career paths, performance standards, and growth opportunities for team members to ensure a resilient talent pipeline.
• Promote cross-functional collaboration within IPC and across client teams, driving cohesion and shared success.

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Here’s what we’re looking for

Leadership & Strategic Vision:

• Demonstrated ability to provide direction, inspire teams, and influence senior stakeholders with a clear vision for controls analytics in project management.

Analytical Expertise & Technical Acumen:

• Exceptional skill in complex data analysis, including predictive modelling, cost forecasting, and trend identification.
• Advanced proficiency in controls software (e.g., Power BI, PRISM, Oracle Primavera) and data manipulation tools (e.g., Python, SQL).

Project Controls Mastery:

• Deep understanding of project controls disciplines, including cost management, schedule performance, risk management, and Earned Value Management (EVM).
• Skilled in designing integrated controls frameworks, aligning cost breakdown structures (CBS) with work breakdown structures (WBS) and organisational breakdown structures (OBS).

Communication & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Proven ability to engage with executive stakeholders and communicate complex analytics insights in an accessible, strategic manner.
• Strong presentation and negotiation skills for influencing senior management and clients.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in data science, Engineering, Finance, Project Management, or a related discipline. A master’s degree is preferred.
• Relevant professional certifications, such as AACE, PMI-PMP, or RICS, are highly desirable.
• Minimum of 15+ years of experience in project controls, cost management, or analytics leadership roles within infrastructure, construction, or energy sectors.
• Demonstrated success in leading project controls and analytics initiatives for high-value, complex projects.
• Experience in building and managing multidisciplinary teams, with a record of accomplishment of delivering data-driven solutions at the executive level.

This role presents an opportunity to redefine controls analytics in the industry, shaping how our clients achieve their project objectives. Join us to lead strategic analytics transformations and make a lasting impact on high-profile infrastructure projects.

Additional Information

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at . At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.

If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

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