Project Controls / Project Manager

  • Full-time

Company Description

About us

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

An innovation and transformation consultancy, we are over 4000 specialists in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists.

We operate globally from offices across the UK, US, Netherlands and Nordics.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Job Description

We are a rapidly growing 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

The Professional Services Team (PST) is in high demand and experiencing repeated successes in delivering value and excellence for our clients who are within daily commuting range from home. Due to this success, we are expanding further into South Wales, and along the M4 corridor, in the Midlands, and Glasgow/Edinburgh.

The PST 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 PST which works across defence, infrastructure, transport, and public sector taking on client-facing roles on long-term assignments and working alongside consultancy teams.

We specialise in P3M, Project Controls, Business Cases, Systems Engineering and Logistics, and we are looking to deepen and broaden these capabilities. 

About You

To rise to the challenge of this Project Controls / Project Manager role, you will bring an academic background and P3M experience, ideally in major infrastructure or technology programmes with exposure to Agile. You will have a strong delivery track record, with supporting PMO & Project Controls capability and use of tools/frameworks, preferably with qualifications such as Prince2, MSP or AgilePM.

You will keen to embrace continual training and development and will be able to develop effective business cases, possess strong analytical skills, be comfortable in taking data and turning it into digestible information, as well as being an excellent communicator.

Additional Information

The Offer

●       The opportunity to work on purposeful projects with incredible people

●       Flexible healthcare plans for you and your family

●       Competitive leave allowances and holiday buy back

●       A wide range of internal and external training programmes

●       3 days’ volunteering for a charity of your choice through our ‘Give as You Earn’ scheme

●       We adopt a hybrid model at PA, but your office base will be in the location nearest to you: Bristol, Cheltenham Manchester or Edinburgh

●       Travel to client site will be necessary if and when the client requires

●       Full time

●       Application deadline: ASAP

Diversity Enables Ingenuity

Our diversity strengthens us and stimulates a rich, creative environment where our people feel empowered to be themselves. We’re committed to recruiting, promoting and rewarding our people solely based on their ability to contribute to PA’s goals, no matter their background. Together, we are PA — Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process — at any time — don’t hesitate to contact us on [email protected]

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