via Indeed · 18 September 2026 ·1 day ago

Project Controls Engineer

Costain
London Full-time Remote
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The Project Controls Engineer will support this agenda, and develop and produce reports as required, for example on progress, outputs achieved, critical paths, resources (including quantity tracking) and earned value.

Assist the Project Control Manager and/or Planning Manager to ensure effective execution of Project Controls on the project. Comply with company procedures to achieve close project control and accurate project forecasting.

Liaise and assist with internal and external stakeholders.

Input into the capture and monitoring of project risks, issues, mitigations and resolution.

Responsibilities may also include the capture and collation of actual hours expended by site staff and labor.


Responsibilities: Responsibilities of Project Controls will vary from project to project but may include:

Schedule development and management

Resource planning and management

Cost management

Change management

Earned value management

Risk and opportunity management

Project reporting – to the client and company

Flexible working: We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need. This might be part\-time, remote working, or compressed hours for example. Anyone who applies for a role can ask about flexibility at interview. In return, we will explore what is possible for the role.

Main Responsibilities

Use the document control system to optimise distribution of information.

Work with the supply chain to establish effective relationships and ensure continuous improvement in delivering programme and productivity

Support the planning team to establish Earned Value Analysis (EVA) and ensure that monthly reporting is accurate, including any additional measures required under the contract.

ensure that client reporting requirements are always met

Work with the commercial team to ensure that the EVA and cost systems correlate and that the combined monthly reporting is accurate.

Generate cash flow profiles in conjunction with commercial team and monitor

Be client focused and aware of the client’s priorities and develop into the plans. Cascade a positive approach to meeting these down through the team.

Establish and work to maintain robust open and honest reporting with all parties to ensure project meets targets.

Have knowledge of conditions of contract, and ensure that project timescales are achieved.

Participate in managing the project risk register and assigning owners to risks and ensuring that these are actively managed out. Likewise for opportunities.

  • Understand the Client and Joint Venture Partners' Environment and Sustainability Policies, Processes and statutory requirements as they affect the company's operations and ensure that the requirements, as applicable within their discipline, are implemented on the project.

Qualifications: The Ideal Candidate

Thorough understanding of Earned Value Management (EVM) terminology and practice

High degree of proficiency in P6 Planning and Control Software, (including aspects of budgets and resources)

Knowledge of the Engineering and Construction Industry

Competent IT skills including MS Excel and the ability to use this to manipulate data and produce data gathering templates

Good knowledge of Microsoft SharePoint including SharePoint Lists

An ability to effectively interpret data and provide input on business process improvement

Experience using data visualisation tool Microsoft Power BI, creating meaningful graphs and dashboards

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About us: Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future\-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.

We do share individual feedback following an interview .

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high\-volume, seasonal and high\-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non\-disabled people.

For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability\-confident\-campaign

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