Project Controller

Job Description

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

A Little More About Your Role

Our structural engineering practice is a thriving global community driven by creativity, curiosity and technical excellence. We attract and retain the brightest minds, and support them to do their best work with collaborative, multidisciplinary teams. We are trusted, impartial advisers invested in our clients’ success, and in making a positive impact for communities.

You will be joining our expanding Building Structures team, as a project controller who are accountable for the project management, technical leadership and delivery of schemes from inception through to handover of the completed scheme to the client.

WSP Building Structures operates in multiple sectors within the UK .This role is to work within the project delivery team supporting the Project Directors and Managers with tracking and reporting on project progress. You will be responsible for all project control functions throughout the project life cycle, detailed engineering and procurement phases and transition through to construction.

Core Functions

Supporting the Project Manager by providing up to date and relevant information on cost, schedule and performance to allow strategic project decisions to be made, providing the associated reports from our reporting system Understanding all relevant project documents and conditions to ensure measurement and reporting is aligned with corporate procedures. Implementing project control procedures and reporting requirements with project team. Weekly monitoring and analysis of costs, tracking between budgeted plan and reality, requested discipline Estimate To Complete month on month Work with the planner to understand impacts of project schedule on project costs Reviewing actual progress against planned progress, particularly with regard to resource levels, productivity, performance metrics and payments. Ensuring the maintenance of both time and cost trend performance indicators and statistics. Gathering and collating both internal and external cost information, comparing cost data to original budget and predicting final project costs and updating relevant management systems Identifying potential project changes and assisting the project manager in preparation of variations by liaison with the appropriate lead disciplines. Providing relevant information to project managers to assist in project reporting. Review and report overall job status with engineers and Project Manager Liaising with other departments at all meetings relative to project operations, to ensure that information affecting schedule and cost is continually updated. Support with monthly invoicing processes