Director of Project Controls

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Role Purpose

The Director of Project Controls is responsible for designing leading and embedding a best-in-class project controls function across Amentums Energy & Environment International (E&E-I) business. Reporting to the Vice President for Finance with a dotted line to the Vice President for Delivery Excellence & Assurance the Director ensures cost schedule and risk performance is governed with accuracy discipline and transparency across the entire portfolio.

A core mandate of this role is to develop and implement a standardised scalable framework that created the Amentum Way of Project Controls that is used consistently across the business line. This framework must be recognised as the single authoritative approach for cost schedule risk and performance management across E&E-I. It must be flexible enough to apply proportionately to smaller low-risk consultancy tasks and service orders while equally being robust enough to govern multi-billion-dollar EPC programmes. It must also be designed so that it can integrate seamlessly with client requirements contractual obligations and industry standards ensuring Amentum remains both competitive and compliant while maintaining a high standard of delivery discipline.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Define and deliver the Project Controls Strategy for E&E-I fully aligned with finance digital delivery and governance frameworks.

• Lead the creation of The Amentum Way of Project Controls ensuring it provides a consistent repeatable best-practice approach for project controls across all divisions. This will also include taking the best of what the corporation has today.

• Ensure the framework is scalable proportionate and adaptable across the full spectrum of project sizes and complexities.

• Ensure the approach is flexible enough to align with client systems reporting needs and contractual requirements without compromising Amentum standards.

Functional Oversight

• Provide executive oversight for cost management schedule control risk management EVM estimating and performance forecasting across all projects.

• Ensure all projects adopt the core elements of The Amentum Way of Project Controls with proportional governance based on project categorisation and risk.

• Guarantee the accuracy quality and timeliness of all project performance data used for decision-making and corporate reporting.

Systems Tools & Digital Integration

• Lead the deployment of best-in-class digital project controls tools ensuring seamless integration with CostPoint OnPoint Workday and other core systems.

• Ensure the framework is digitised and supported by automated workflows and dashboards that scale from small projects to major programmes and align with the E&E-I project & divisional reporting.

• Drive advancements in 4D/5D planning integrated cost/schedule risk analysis and predictive forecasting.

Capability & Community Leadership

• Build lead and mentor the Project Controls Community of Practice ensuring all practitioners meet SQEP expectations.

• Develop the competency framework and career progression pathways for project controls professionals.

• Promote a cohesive culture of professionalism continuous learning and excellence across all business units.

Performance & Improvement

• Lead a structured continuous improvement programme to enhance maturity quality and efficiency of project controls.

• Ensure lessons learned audit findings and assurance outcomes drive improvement in tools processes and capability.

• Ensure The Amentum Way of Project Controls remains modern relevant and scalable as the business evolves.

Experience & Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering project controls or major project delivery on multi-billion-dollar EPC projects within energy defence infrastructure or major construction.

• Proven ability to develop implement or operate standardised cross-business project controls frameworks.

• Deep proficiency in cost schedule risk EVM forecasting and integrated project controls systems.

• Experience designing scalable project controls methods that flex from small projects to mega-programmes.

• Demonstrated success integrating project controls systems with finance/ERP environments.

• Strong senior stakeholder engagement and influence.

• Professional accreditation (ACostE AACE APM PMI or equivalent).

• Experience in nuclear defence nuclear power environmental remediation or major government programmes.

• Experience with NEC3/4 FIDIC or government contracting frameworks in the UK.

Leadership Attributes

• Technical authority with credibility to influence complex multi-disciplinary programmes.

• Data-driven and commercially aware ensuring performance information is high quality and decision-ready.

• Collaborative integrating project controls with finance governance delivery excellence and assurance.

• Innovation-minded ensuring The Amentum Way of Project Controls evolves with digital tools and market expectations.

• People-focused leader building capability pride and professionalism across the project controls community.

Security and Clearance Requirements

• Must be an UK citizen (dual nationality considered on a case-by-case basis subject to clearance requirements).

• Must be able to obtain and hold at least a SC level security clearance.

• Will be required to pass character financial and background checks in line with Amentum corporate and government standards.

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