Project Controls Manager

Pinnacle Recruitment are currently looking for a Project Contols Manager to work for our client based in Hemel Hempstead.

This would be working for a leading utilities contractor specialising in the water and civil engineering sectors, who deliver complex, sustainable solutions that enhance public infrastructure, improve network resilience, and reduce environmental impact.

Salary – £55,000 – £65,000

Duties

In this role, you’ll take the lead in administering, monitoring, and reporting on construction project performance within the water infrastructure sector, ensuring production, cost, quality, programme, efficiency, and benefit outcomes stay firmly on track. You’ll work closely with client and project teams to provide regular performance forecasts, highlight risks, guide decision‑making, and support the efficient progression of large programmes—from early project development through to design, delivery, and handover. You’ll remove barriers to progress, champion good governance, and help embed improved processes and digital ways of working that strengthen business performance across the board.

Requirements

* Experience delivering projects or programmes in construction, with familiarity in P6, MS Project, NEC contracts and CEMAR.

* Strong analytical, organisational and communication skills, confident with Power BI, Excel and digital tools.

* Collaborative, proactive and solution‑focused approach with good commercial awareness.

* Essential experience in performance management; desirable qualifications include a degree or project management certification (PRINCE2, APM, PMI)