Project Manager / Project Controls - Consultant - Bristol/South Wales/Midlands/Scotland

  • Full-time

Company Description

We’re an innovation and transformation consultancy that believes in the power of ingenuity to build a positive-human future in a technology-driven world. Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking with breakthrough-technologies to progress further, faster.

With a global network of FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 clients, we’ll offer you unrivalled opportunities for growth and the freedom to excel. Combining strategies, technologies and innovation, we turn complexity to opportunity and deliver enduring results, enabling you to build a lasting career.

PST is a team in high demand and experiencing repeated successes in delivering value and excellence for are clients who are within daily commuting range from home. Dou to this success we are expanding further into South Wales, and along the M4 corridor, in the Midlands, and Glasgow/Edinburgh.

There has never been a better time to join.

Job Description

About the Team

PST make up part of PA’s core Delivery Team which is PA’s Centre of Excellence for all project, programme and portfolio capability. 

Within this core delivery team sits the Professional Services Team which work across defence, infrastructure, transport and public services sectors taking on client-facing roles on long-term assignments and working alongside consultancy teams.

We specialise in Project Controls, Business Cases, Systems Engineering and Logistics, and we are looking to deepen and broaden these capabilities. 

Job Description

  • Are you driven by a desire to make a difference?
  • Are you comfortable engaging with and becoming a trusted adviser to clients from all levels of seniority? 
  • Would you be keen to work collaboratively with diverse teams of experts and draw on your own experiences to develop and publicise insight that could shape thinking across a sector? 
  • Is being able to shape your own career pathway and support the development of others through leading teams important to you?
  • Do you enjoy solving complex problems using logic, creativity, analytics and interpersonal skills to find appropriate solutions? 

If the answer to any of the above is ‘yes’ we would love to hear from you

Qualifications

We value a diverse professional background, but we expect you to have a successful track record, be appropriately qualified.

If you have some of the following skills and experience, we can offer the opportunity to make the most of them and to develop in other areas to build your career.

  • You will have P3M experience, ideally in major procurements, infrastructure or technology programmes.
  • You have experience in project management, having used Project Controls tools such as Primavera or MS Project on a regular basis.
  • You’ll be committed to managing projects successfully and will have one or more AXELOS™ qualifications e.g.PRINCE2, MSP, MoP
  • Ideal to have or be working towards qualifications in Agile and/or APM - ChPP, PPQ, PMQ 
  • You’ll understand the importance of developing effective business cases to convince senior management of the return on investment.
  • You can balance your analytical abilities with stellar communication skills; you will be comfortable with taking data and turning it into digestible information. 
  • You may have experience of contracting and procurement, logistics and supply chain management, and have the supporting qualifications (eg MCIPS)
  • You will have strong interpersonal skills
  • You will have a Degree or equivalent professional qualification

Some of our clients require Security Clearance and it would be helpful if you already had this in place

Additional Information

We believe that diversity makes us a stronger firm and look to employ people with different ideas, styles and skillsets. We’re committed to recruiting, promoting and rewarding our people solely based on their ability to contribute to PA’s goals, without regard to their sex, race, disability, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or marital status.

* Please note you must already have the unconditional right to live and work in the EU/UK region*

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