Project Controls Lead- Data Centres (Finland wide)

Company DescriptionTurner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.comJob DescriptionTurner & Townsend are leaders in professional services to the Data Centre sector globally. Due to the continued success and expansion of our Data Centre business in the Nordics area we are currently recruiting for a Project Controls Lead to join our Data Centre team in Finland.This is a key role within our organisation, overseeing all Project Controls of the project, establishing the required processes, templates and tools, and agreeing the baseline for cost and schedule, whilst monitoring performance against it and incorporating the impacts of risk, opportunities and change in a controlled manner.With a market leading client base and the opportunity to take the lead on strategic commissions and high-profile projects, this is an exciting time to join the business unit and grow a career with Turner & Townsend.ResponsibilitiesIdentify trends and root causes of deviations against the baseline using lead and lag indicators, recommend remedial actions in order to drive best value for the clientLead the evaluation of the project‘s time, cost, and quality targets, applying governance controls as necessary to enable the successful delivery of the projectCooperate with a remote team of cost managers responsible for reaching an agreed, market tested cost baseline and ensuring the client is receiving value for moneyGuide and influence the general contractor, ensuring they are progressing in line with the schedule and within agreed cash flow parametersAct as the key point of contact to the client overcoming delivery and commercial issues whilst preparing formal and ad hoc reports focusing on time, cost and quality targetsControl costs with your knowledge of conceptual estimating, funding stage gates, basic contingency principals, procurement principalsCreate and/or work within a cost report, summarizing financials in an executive level dashboard.Understand change management principals, lead agreed change management process and work flow, providing a platform for adding/tracking/monitoring/approving changeCoordinate and lead planning sessions and workshops with clients and vendors to compile the master project/programme schedule, agreeing baselines and a critical pathUnderstand procurement principals, collate lead times from vendors and client into the master schedule communicate the prioritisation of ordering materials and equipment to meet scheduled install datesWork closely with the client to define vendor schedule requirementsWork closely with the project team to stay informed on status of project changes, incorporating and communicating these to the project team to allow for approvals in the change management processHold vendors accountable for required schedule updates and reporting to maintain timely and accurate updates of the master schedule ensuring that the schedules adhere to the defined process and quality expectationsQualificationsUniversity Degree in an engineering or construction related fieldMinimum 10 years’ work experience in Project Controls; experience in large scale Data Centre projects preferredExperience of master planning/strategic estate development and capital project planning for business case compilation is desirableExperienced in variety of methods of procurement and forms of contractDemonstrable experience in client-facing roles at all levelsRelevant qualification (project management or construction management) preferredGood knowledge of construction industry and Data Centre sector themesGood knowledge of project lifecycle and business case approvals processAvailability for on-site workAdditional InformationOur inspired people share our vision and mission. 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