Project Controls Manager

Job Description

As Project Controls Manager, you will play a key role in establishing, leading and maintaining the project controls function across a large and complex project environment.

Working closely with Project Directors, Project Managers, commercial teams, delivery partners, clients and subcontractors, you will provide the controls, analysis and insight required to support informed project decision-making and successful delivery.

You will be responsible for ensuring robust project controls systems, processes and reporting are in place across schedule, cost, change, scope, progress and performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the project controls function across large and complex projects.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of accurate project schedules, including critical path analysis, resource loading and resource levelling.
• Monitor project performance and provide meaningful analysis, reporting and insights to Project Management and senior stakeholders.
• Lead and support scope control and change management processes, ensuring changes are appropriately identified, assessed, tracked and communicated.
• Conduct root cause analysis and identify opportunities to improve project performance.
• Develop and maintain tracking systems to monitor subcontractor funding, work authorizations and expenditure.
• Maintain detailed change order tracking and ensure the Project Management team has clear visibility of change status.
• Review and analyse project data, including information generated through automated project systems, to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
• Support project budgeting and the management of incentive programs.
• Develop strong relationships with clients, subcontractors and key project stakeholders.
• Participate in client and subcontractor negotiations, providing project controls and commercial insight.
• Contribute to project staffing decisions and broader organisational planning.
• Provide leadership, guidance and mentoring to project controls professionals.
• Support the identification and resolution of performance issues and drive a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to the development of commercial strategies and participate in commercial negotiations as required.

Qualifications

We are looking for an experienced project controls professional who can operate confidently within a complex, high-value project environment and bring a combination of technical expertise, commercial understanding and leadership.

You will ideally bring:

• 10-15 years of Experience in project controls, ideally within major infrastructure, construction, engineering or complex capital programs.
• Demonstrated experience leading project controls across large or complex projects.
• Strong expertise across planning and scheduling, cost control, change management, scope control and project reporting.
• Advanced understanding of critical path analysis, resource loading and resource levelling.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, including experience conducting root cause analysis.
• Experience developing and implementing project controls procedures and systems.
• Strong commercial awareness and experience contributing to negotiations.
• The ability to interpret project data and translate it into clear, actionable insights.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships with clients, delivery partners and subcontractors.
• Strong leadership capability and the confidence to influence project teams and senior stakeholders.
• A collaborative approach and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-profile program environment.

Additional Information

Why You’ll Love Working with Us

• Flexible work arrangements, including alternative start/finish times, job-sharing, and hybrid work options.
• Purchase up to 6 weeks of additional annual leave per year.
• Volunteer and representation leave.
• Flex public holidays—swap Easter or other holidays for those that suit you better.

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We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including those with disabilities, additional health or mental health needs, and/or neurodiverse conditions. If you require any adjustments during the hiring process, please let us know.

Applications are reviewed as they come in, and the role may close earlier than expected. If this opportunity resonates with you, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible!

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

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You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.