Project Controls Senior Manager

Job Description

About AtkinsRéalis

AtkinsRéalis is a world-leading engineering services and nuclear organization, dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. With a presence in over 50 countries, we deliver end-to-end solutions across transportation, infrastructure, energy, and defense sectors.

Our Transportation business brings together expertise in rail, highways, and local transport into a multidisciplinary team delivering innovative and sustainable mobility solutions. Within Rail, our Systems & Infrastructure capability provides leading expertise across signaling, telecommunications, control systems, and integrated operations. We combine technical excellence with a human-centered approach, ensuring that railway systems are designed for performance, reliability, safety, and long-term operability.

Overview

The Project Controls Senior Manager will lead integrated project controls functions including planning, scheduling, cost management, reporting, change control, and performance monitoring across the programme.

Your role

• Lead programme-wide planning, scheduling, cost control, and reporting functions.
• Establish integrated project controls systems, PMIS platforms, and reporting frameworks.
• Monitor programme performance against approved baselines, milestones, and KPIs.
• Coordinate earned value management, forecasting, and schedule recovery initiatives.
• Oversee change control, progress measurement, and performance analytics.
• Manage project controls interfaces across engineering, construction, commercial, and operational teams.
• Prepare executive dashboards, management reports, and performance reviews.
• Mentor project controls personnel and promote data-driven decision-making across the programme.

About you

• Degree in Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, or related discipline.
• Minimum 18 years’ experience in project controls leadership roles.
• Strong expertise in Primavera P6, cost management systems, and PMIS platforms.
• Experience delivering major rail or infrastructure programmes.
• Strong understanding of earned value management and integrated controls methodologies.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary project controls teams.
• Excellent analytical, reporting, and communication capability.
• Professional certification preferred (PMP, CCP, PSP, or equivalent).

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.

This includes:

• Tax-free salary.
• Life insurance coverage.
• Medical insurance.
• Annual leave balance.
• Company gratuity scheme.
• Discretionary bonus program.
• Annual flight contribution.
• Transportation & housing allowances.
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.

Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Worker Type

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At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.