Walker Sime
Project Controls Lead
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Walker Sime - Project Controls Lead Opportunity
Welcome to Walker Sime – part of HanmiGlobal. We deliver multidisciplinary construction services nationally across real estate, regeneration, and infrastructure, bringing commercial precision, strategic oversight, and global capability to every project. Our business is built on people and backed for scale.
Due to continued growth across our Infrastructure division, we are seeking an experienced Project Controls Lead to grow our Project Controls service line. Reporting directly to the Director of Infrastructure, this is a senior leadership role with responsibility for service delivery, business growth, team leadership, and P&L performance. You will play a key role in shaping strategy, developing capability, and ensuring successful delivery across major infrastructure programmes.
This opportunity would suit a commercially aware and client-focused leader who combines strategic thinking with hands-on delivery expertise.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the Project Controls service offering across planning, cost, risk, change, and reporting
- Provide leadership across complex infrastructure programmes, ensuring high-quality delivery and governance
- Take ownership of the Infrastructure Project Controls P&L, including forecasting, utilisation, and pipeline management
- Build and maintain strong client relationships while supporting bids and business development activity
- Recruit, mentor, and develop a high-performing Project Controls team
- Drive consistency, continuous improvement, and best practice across systems, tools, and reporting
- Undertake business development activity, leading bids, proposals, and client presentations
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Essential Experience & Skills
- Proven experience establishing and leading Project Controls teams within consultancy or complex delivery environments
- Expert in Project Controls across programme, cost, risk, and change management
- Experience leading teams within consultancy or infrastructure environments
- Demonstrable experience managing service-line performance and P&L
- Strong stakeholder management and business development capability
- Experience delivering across large-scale infrastructure programmes
- Strong leadership capability, with experience building and managing teams
- Strategic thinker and proved work-winning ability to allow for growth of the Project Controls service line
- Experience within infrastructure, construction, or regulated environments
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Desirable
- Nuclear & Defence, Power & Energy, Water, Transport
- Chartered or working towards chartership (APM, RICS, ICE, or equivalent)
What We Offer
- The opportunity to shape and lead a growing Project Controls service line
- Exposure to nationally significant infrastructure programmes
- A collaborative and ambitious consultancy environment
- Clear career progression within a growing organisation backed by global capability
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package
Join Walker Sime
If you’re ready to take the lead, shape the future of Project Controls, and make a real impact within a fast-growing consultancy backed by global capability, we’d love to hear from you. Join Walker Sime and be part of delivering some of the UK’s most high-profile and complex infrastructure programmes!
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