Cost Control

• Manage project budget and cost control strategy, including DEVEX variation and change management.
• Lead all aspects of project cost control: budget setting, cost breakdown structures, commitments, accruals, forecasting, variance analysis and change control.
• Own the project cost baseline and ensure disciplined change management, with every contract variation, scope change and claim properly evaluated and reflected in the forecast.
• Provide early warning of cost overruns or emerging risks to budget, with clear mitigation recommendations, ahead of them becoming board-level issues.
• Work closely with the Financial Advisor and finance team to ensure cost data feeds cleanly into the project financial model and sensitivity analysis.

Planning & Schedule Control

• Maintain and continuously assure the integrated project schedule, ensuring PMO, Commercial, HSE, Consenting, Stakeholder and Technical workstreams are properly sequenced and interdependencies are visible.
• Run regular schedule risk analysis and scenario planning, particularly around contracting strategy and long-lead procurement decisions.

Team Management & Leadership

• Build, lead and develop the project controls team, setting clear standards, ways of working and reporting cadence across cost and planning functions.
• Manage the performance, workload and development of direct reports, and act as a credible, visible leader across a matrixed, multi-disciplinary project team.
• Manage relationships with third-party cost and planning consultants, ensuring their outputs meet the standard required for lender and board scrutiny.

Governance & Reporting (including Risk and Change Management)

• Produce regular, board-ready cost and schedule status reporting for project leadership, the Blue Gem board, sponsor representatives and lenders.
• Maintain the project controls risk register in line with the wider Erebus commercial and procurement risk register.
• Oversee risk and change management and ensure the risk and change management registers are current and applied.
• Ensure project controls activity complies with sponsor SBE governance and approval requirements.

Core responsibilities include financial controls, change management, programme management, document control and IT support, with especial emphasis on cost control and risk management in the short term.

Experience and Qualifications:

Required:

• Relevant degree in engineering, quantity surveying, project management, or a related discipline with at least 10 years’ relevant experience
• At least 6 years’ experience in the offshore wind sector with PMO leadership experience
• Demonstrable experience leading project controls (cost and/or planning) on at least one major project, ideally through to Final Investment Decision, in offshore wind, renewables or large-scale infrastructure
• Strong, hands-on cost control experience — budgeting, forecasting, variance and change management on complex, multi-contractor capital projects
• Proven experience building and managing a project controls team, including direct line management responsibility.
• Strong working knowledge of planning and scheduling tools and integrated project schedules for large capital projects.
• Ability to communicate cost and schedule status clearly and credibly to senior stakeholders, including boards, sponsors and lenders.
• Experience of offshore wind project development in the UK
• Excellent organisation skills with the ability to manage own workload, meet timescales and coordinate a number of external and internal stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to enable effective discussion and transfer of information between contractors, team members and other stakeholders
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)
• The technical skills to understand complex offshore operations and the ability to exchange with and understand subject experts
• Ability to work as a member of a large, multidisciplinary and international team
• Ability to use Microsoft Office and project management software e.g. Primavera P6, Sarfan
• Ability to create and communicate complex technical information clearly.

Your application:

Applications for this role will close on 16 October 2026. Please note that applications received after this date will not be considered. We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of suitable applications are received; however, the vacancy will remain open for a minimum of five days.

At Simply Blue Energy, we know we are only as good as our people. We value diversity and are proud of our inclusive culture, making Simply Blue Energy a great place to work and where our people feel valued, have their voices heard and can be true to their authentic selves. Diversity is one of our core values, not just because it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and more effective in our mission of working with the oceans to fight climate change.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is valued and respected. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We particularly encourage applications from people who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, people with disabilities and people from ethnic minority backgrounds.