Description At Jacobs, you will work with the most talented professionals and thought leaders to shape the future of the global professional services sector as we deliver ground-breaking and life-changing solutions for a more connected, sustainable world. With more than $12 billion in revenue and a talent force of more than 50,000, Jacobs provides a full spectrum of services including scientific, technical, professional, construction and program management for business, commercial, government and infrastructure sectors.
Our people improve lives and connect communities through transformative transport, water, built environment and power projects. We are innovators and problem solvers who turn challenges into greater opportunities. Visit www.jacobs.com to see how you can make a difference.
About the opportunity
The diversity within our New Zealand Project Management Office unit gives us the flexibility to provide our clients with in-house project teams tailor-made to meet their varying project requirements. We currently have a Christchurch-based opportunity for a Project Controls Specialist (PCS). This role consists of elements of project management, project controls, pricing, finance, procurement and risk management. Working on a diverse range of national projects, the PCS will be a member of a team of around 20 project management specialists working across our offices in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch.
About you
Ideally you would be degree qualified and preferably be from a construction, contract administration or consulting background with good all-round skills in project controls, procurement and financials. You would need to be extremely well-organised, detail focused, and flexible with a can-do attitude. Further skills and experience that would be required are:Entry to intermediate level candidates required with some relevant experience
Familiarity with a consulting/design project delivery environment and the application of principles of project controls.
Understand the principles of project controls and understand the relationships between the project controls functions—pricing, cost control, risk management and ideally scheduling/programming.
Experienced working with multiple cross-discipline project teams to provide effective execution of projects.
Strong communicator ensuring that project controls metrics and understood and acted upon.
Deploy and implement standard control procedures following Jacobs procedures.
Promote a positive working atmosphere.
Possess good verbal and written communication skills. Must be able to communicate complex project controls information to team members.
Must be able to write accurate and meaningful project status updates.
Highly skilled in Excel and data handling / manipulation.
Familiarity with Ecosys Projects would be advantageous.
Why Jacobs
We reflect our clients’ diversity at Jacobs. We value inclusion and diversity as it energises our people and encourages creativity, collaboration and innovation. Our global culture of caring fosters a workplace where we value the safety, positive mental health, inclusion and belonging of all our employees. Joining Jacobs introduces you to a variety of established global employee networks dedicated to empowering employees to maximise their potential through engagement and development opportunities across all career stages.
One of the many ways we thank our employees for their dedication and hard work, is offering quality, flexible benefit options that keep you and your family, physically and financially healthy. You’ll have access to several employee benefits including professional/educational support, flexible work arrangements, salary sacrifice options, monthly social events or community involvement programs.
It’s a great time to join Jacobs as we actively nurture and support our diverse employee and client networks across all ethnicities and cultures. Achieve more and thrive with a global brand! Apply online by clicking on the link below.
Please note: If you are being represented by a recruitment agency you will not be considered, to be considered you will need to apply directly to Jacobs.
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Primary Location: New Zealand-New Zealand Countrywide-Christchurch
Job Posting: Aug 16, 2019, 12:41:28 AM
