Global Director of Project Controls

Job Title:        Global Director of Project Controls
Location:        UK Wide + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation:    Highly Competitive Package + Benefits
Role Type:        Full time and Permanent 
Role ID:        SF57319

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as the Global Director of Project Controls at the company. 

The role
As the Global Director of Project Controls, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. In this pivotal role you will have core objectives to deliver across Project Controls in Babcock. These are to improve our control environment and fundamentally reduce risk in the business and enhance our ability to make data-driven decisions to improve delivery and mitigation of risk in our major projects.  

Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for leading the Project Controls Function Globally across the business, to realise these objectives and implement and achieve our Global functional strategy across the full delivery Lifecycle. As a member of the Global Project Management Functional Leadership Team, you will play a key role in enabling our people to progress, and supporting the organisation’s needs by having the agility to align the right people to the right roles and create a centre of excellence for the tools, process’ and framework for delivering projects and programmes.
 
Working with our Sector leadership teams both in the UK and Internationally, you will develop and implement consistent capabilities to drive best practice and performance improvement. You will set and manage the Systems implementation strategy for Project Controls and guide the business within the Project Controls and Delivery functions.

Other Key Responsibilities include:
•    Provide visible leadership, direction and guidance for the business and the functional community, creating and gain buy in to a compelling vision and the successful adoption of new solutions
•    Ownership of the Group Project Controls Function, providing line management to discipline specific heads of
•    Act as subject matter expert for project control across the business
•    Work with Senior management and Direct Reporting Country functional representative teams to manage the development of standardised processes and ways of working for the cost discipline to ensure consistency and best practice
•    Set and manage strategic interface between project control systems and sector specific ways of working to ensure consistency and best practice maintained
•    Work with Direct Reporting Country specific senior management to roll out and imbed the application of best practice in requirements management, budgeting, planning, cost control, financial, change and benefits management

This role is full time with hybrid/home working arrangements. We’re flexible on location and will consider candidates throughout the whole of the UK. This role will require regular travel when necessary.   

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview. 

Essential experience of the Global Director of Project Controls:

•    Significant proven track record of success in a Lead Project Controls position
•    Extensive recent and relevant experience in a similar major project controls environment / business and have a successful track record of Management in a senior leadership role within a complex regulated and/or safety-critical environment
•    Working knowledge of Project Controls Systems Architecture and tools
•    Project lifecycle experience from bid phase through to close out
•    Proven project management and control skills to deliver either a major project of high complexity and risk or a programme of projects of medium risk and complexity
•    Proven ability to analyse, interpret and report financial information and the ability to recognise and understand the project controls deliverables
•    Proven Experience of Conflict Management – being able to identify and addressing differences that, if unmanaged, would affect the delivery of the project

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer
•    Generous holiday allowance 
•    Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
•    Employee share scheme 
•    Employee shopping savings portal
•    Payment of Professional Fees
•    Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave 
•    Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
•    ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
•    Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
•    Autonomy to perform the role
•    Opportunity to work on some of the most exciting engineering projects this country has to offer

Babcock International 
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

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