Project Controls Lead

Are you a Head of Project Controls/Project Controls Lead looking join a leading civil engineering contractor delivering complex infrastructure projects across the UK. This role is ideal for someone with a strong site background who understands how jobs are really built, and can translate that knowledge into robust, realistic and defensible project controls.

If you know production rates because you've physically delivered the work, you understand how long earthworks, drainage, concrete pours, piling, structures or utilities actually take to build, and you can develop programmes from first principles rather than relying on historic assumptions, your real site experience will genuinely set you apart in this role.

The Role
As Project Controls Lead, you will take ownership of planning, scheduling and performance management across major civil engineering schemes. You'll work closely with project teams to ensure programmes, cost forecasts and reporting reflect real-world delivery conditions, not theoretical models.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing and maintaining detailed construction programmes from first principles
• Producing realistic activity durations, sequencing, methods and logic based on practical site knowledge
• Carrying out take-offs and resource assessments grounded in actual production rates
• Leading progress measurement, performance tracking and early identification of delays ...